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Show llraailian Sev.ants. The servants of Bra;;ii are very poor, Tery high priced, and very hard to got. The necessity ne-cessity of having to work to live never having hav-ing become a stern reality iu their eyes, they consider it rather a favor than otherwise, in fact quite a condescension, to do anything at any price. A cook, for instance, and not a good one either, who comes at half-past 11 in the morning, cooks your breakfast, and leaves between half-past 0 and a quarter to T at night, after cooking dinner, expects, and gets, from seventy to eighty iniireisa month; i. e., nt present rate of exehunge, about from $35 to v-10. He does not wash his dishes, and would leave the place in an instant if asked to do it. JTono of the servants sloep in the house where they work. They come in tha morniug, and leave at night by S o'clock at the very latest. They aro much given to stealing, and, if detected, do not feel the slightest shame, but lather upbraid the mas-. mas-. ter, and act as if he hud interfered with some of their prerogatives. 2?ew York Ledger, |
