Show aft S ic blunders BR idl irs 0 of f women ro nen ey my A M MERE FR F R m MAIM MAN A N ny y THE management OF SERVANTS Y one idea in tit these articles Is to be strictly fair to women and not as so many other w N r it e u h have a v done to attack them thein unta unfairly irly on subjects of vanity dress extravagance or an of the other well worn topics to hae hane followed in the lines of my ors would to my mind have been to prove my own weakness akness for we cannot change a womans any neole than w can mans and ther etoie to attack women because they are fickle or vainglorious vain glorious seema seems to me as absurd as to attempt to prove pron c that man is not the su superior perlor animal because he lie is by instinct fond of cakes and ale really pally 11 I 1 do not want to attack at all because it is as natural to roe me to be fond of women as it Is tor chil dren to be fond of toys my real idea is to give women an opportunity tor defense and to pime their moir 0 ft is for this reason that I 1 attack them thein where they elect elca to be considered strongest namely in their homes bomes tho the cry of late cars is that women aio ate as good as men that the have been persecuted and kept hept under for yearb and that therefore they should not be expected in the ilist ears cars of their emancipation to be up tip to competing with nith men as breadwinners bread winners that is quite q bite reasonable and therefore I 1 do to not gird at their mismanagement of the tile political and commercial sides of lif life 0 but the management of the tile house they have always alna 3 had and as I 1 hae liane said there they fail fall sadly either to provide comfort or to spend money in the proper way I 1 have bave u so far shown that the dis comforts and extravagances of homo home am largely due lite to womans vo mans incapacity to buy in the best bailets mai Lets and ancl their inability to handle money to the best advantage I 1 am bound to admit that another great factor in fit home biscom foit is the servants nearly all con trover hint at servants sei being the difficulty and needless need lewi to say if I 1 knew my subject at all I 1 was bound to face the servant question I 1 ill face it but I 1 fear that so far from front the tile cause causo of woman bon eatIng by the tile AF 7 77 0 o f 1 W 0 o im n one ej oj her tantrums inquiry I 1 shall hereby prove my allegations against women anre con than I 1 have so ur a done womans mission Is to alaya put the tile blame on someone so else aae he be gan it she put th the blame on oil the serpent and her daughters daught e sn rave tave ever since blamed the serpent on the hearth the servant serva L do rot run away with any idea that I 1 am ani gor tor for mere love of paradox pari dox to servants A french waltr r hai sad so many servants to biary spee spies and in my mind se savants rants ara jnnny things worse than but let ants be as they are fc fb for everything that goe wong jut juitt as servants put everything an the cat eat I 1 accept the gago gage for the purposes I 1 INN of or a cament we will admit that servants aie lie at the bottom of all the evil of home life now let us its inquire into that tit a t the hrat first question to abb tho the woman in III the box who nho is giving evi dence for the defense is who eti engages gilges the servants the answer is I 1 do to the witness be it understood is speaking on oil behalf of women gonei alb all the next question is who directs the servants the mansvet 1 the same 1 I do to pursuing tins this line I 1 ask the mistress from whom lioni N do 1 our set ants loam ficai it tieh leh business from front me nie and anything thea dont know I 1 may take tahe it is duer due to the fact that gotmer mistresses have liae not taught or have tailed to teaell thorn them that is so you have lime hoard the expression like master like man have vou oil not 1 I havea blaic husbands nothing to do with teaching servants arts their business certainly not what is the proportion of women se servants in a house whore two men servants sei vanta are herit five fine or bt ua and ali when tho tha servants bor are all of one se sex to which sex do to they be ions generally to the female sev SQ 1 then the proportion of women servants arts over men sor arita is vor nor laige it is then if the entile education engaging eng ong g a g I 1 it paying managing mana niana giLg gitig and dis dig chaining chai chill ging of servants is carried on by women aomen and ant it the proportion pio portion of worn on oil over oner men servants is deiy large the ertice blame for the toi tot quate of the servant ant question must be due lite to women the witness does toes no not answer md ind on being bursto bil jtb into tears and farally nays it is all the fault of the inon mon I 1 have put this point paint in the shape of a dialogue dia lopue t because it Is perhaps a little shorter and easier to un demand it all amounts ot the old saying qui tacit per ajluni alium fat it per se men as a nile tile i have lai e nothing to do ii with etli servants tb the larger proportion of servants are women and there lore ioro the tile faults ot servants servant 3 Is te only another proof that w onion arc are incata ble of managing another very large section of a neves necessity sity which should I 1 go G to make mahe comfort and economy in the home but pet perhaps leaps it Is not fair to judge entirely by majorities let 11 tic look at the exception which again I proves roves the rule bachelors keel their servants 3 mu nion or women for years ana W with a few exceptions always sp dk of them as utes why is this ak aak ai arv serva t who applies to oil fr r atit nation why he lie or she sho left his 0 rhe r he last place ohp almost invariable answer is 1 I could not get got on with the mistress ak agic why NN hy any gentle mats gentleman or my ladys maid mahl left his or her anther place and the answers ans vers aie ale always the missus the missus the missus As a rule when a servant gives notice and Is askel by his hig master why he to leave the anan answer er j 1 I cant satisfy my tuy mistress sir or 1 I cant get on with the cool ser servants ants very seldom complain that they cannot get on with the mayter master it Is aldays the missus again I 1 aak why is tt 14 the most ansa t hil actor and sulky female servant will always smile and do anything cha fully for her master or the young gentlemen of the house ant and when she is in one of her tantrums it is in nine case 14 out of or ten because she carrot ra get on with the tile missus or the young za ladies ladles 0 6 t the he other female servants for alic t bic complaint of is always c against ainest what they call she she is the teror geror of the tile servant of either sex sox and theio whole thore Is distension disien sion downstairs the tile female servant Is always at the th bottom of or it docs does not fiat all this show that cannot manage ants and ahat female servant 3 car cannot carnot not manage one another the servants of a house cost as much as a rule as the lent tent and taxes and yet they never give satisfaction and are never satisfied why Is 1 thib I 1 could pasal find fifty reasons to ac count lount for it the mistress who over oner works the mistress who dundei works the mistress ints naho is unkind the tile mi niva tress who is too kind the ini mit itress rpsa who is too strict the nil mie who lb au not strict enough the mis mi tiesa who makes fiti favorites orites etc etc would all prove fruitful subjects to enlarge upon were the not too obvious its the IP 1 einar kable thing about the whole question is that though money will nill s secure e aou ou eNery everything thing on the earth no amount of wages will nill induce servants as a rule to stop long in III a place it is a mistake to imagine that servants are independent and lo 10 e to roam As a matter of fact they are to leave because they never know what character JL a spite spiteful tul inie title tress may inay give glye them and one out bad character means the it la is the ha haunting tintIng realo of this which makes them if possible pos gible give notice beffie they thoy receive it for thih this Is their only protector prot ecton Is it natural to fl that any endless fil and homeless lioni eless and mone 3 les feature feature lea ture willingly r leaves a good loot good goodwood food and good wages to run the chance of meeting a it worse norse misti essa the thing is absurd for the motto of servants is the not verv verb lof lofty ty one of GerN gervaise alse to have hane enough to eat and drink drift to work bork all their lives to die tile in their beds and be buried decently when I 1 was inas a little ho I 1 heard A I 1 f the mistress s who ts is 9 a servant sa that the fat fato e of a servant was to work while ou are 3 oung to beg when ihen yon you are old and to go to the devil when you die I 1 have never forgotten it there is very N cry much to be said on the tile subject of nils mistresses and belv ants very much loicl than I 1 have either space or patience for and would bp be very little use itse in saying it if I 1 hail had ss cs it seems all very obvious when heik you come to think of it which women apparently never do but this fact io we ale as much indebted to servants serNa tits for the comforts of home horne life as we nc are to our wives and daughter daughters the only difference between the tile two classes is that some of us are allowed to try and mana manage manae e our wives and daughters and some of us its succeed but none of s are ever allowed to inter feic with the servants tg all wives nives and daughters mismanage them then t to 0 our so re discomfort and their own another thin thing 0 Is that we can call yet get rid of our servants mer but not of or our wives and daughters daughter who I 1 candidly believe ara are really the most to blame though poor souls I 1 do believe most of them tr arv the fact remains lio however that women nomen arrogate to themselves the management of servant rui id inove their incapacity for the task by the deplorable state ol 01 the tile servant auar market men lan manage shop girls waitresses factory girls and ana all sorts of women wo mail engaged in their bu I 1 noises but men nien cannot stop at home hoine to manage servants tg and if it they could they could not prevent etil their ahe udd ja daughters from nrc rg I 1 ine tie question Is what Is to be done so that we w 0 may live in fit peace whon our days work Is done aone copyright by funk bagnall Wa gnall i |