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Show Tli VinuiKBter's Servant. I The spectacle of a trim, shapely, well ! bred looking young woman walking ! down Fifth avenue behind an over-I over-I dressed child of perhaps twelve years of I age and carrying the youngster's school 1 hooks, has fieeii observed by social slu-j slu-j dents on several occasions lately. it I seems to be the proper thing Willi chil-I chil-I dreu or the smart tet, but it is not an altogether cheerful and encouraging j sign of tlie limes These young women : are not governesses, unless they come under the English designation of nursery gov ertii'sses. tor the children go to school ; und presumably are taught something l when they gel there: nor are the young ! women maid servants, und they are very rarely, it would appear, of foreign ox-. ox-. miction In a country like England i where poor turls of good family consent j to accept positions which, If not menial I are given menial suggesti veness, there ia ' the inborn British ref-pecl for rank and money to condone what seems to be rath-; rath-; er unworthy service Hut in this glorious glori-ous republic of Independence and equality equal-ity ihe sight is not a pleasantone. Times must be hard when American girls sell their birthright and self respect for a : mess of pottage. New York Slur. |