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Hints to Servants (Harm in several ways Children)

harm in several ways. Children are very communicative naturally, and a "tattling" girl can get much material from them, out of which to manufacture a great deal of gossip. One girl of this class can mar the peace of a whole neighborhood, and make friends enemies for life. There are two sides to the servant question, of course, as to most others. Your girl has some rights you are bound to respect. She has the inalienable right to cherish what religious opinions she chooses, however misguided they may seem to be. Care for the comfort and neat furnishing of her room is what every generous mistress will cheerfully give. The servant will take more pride in the care of the rest of the house, if she realizes you are interested enough in her to see that she has a comfortable chamber for her own use.

But, after all, it will be impossible to secure and retain really competent girls unless they can be won to attachment to the family and its interests, so that they will regard themselves as a part of it, with a future identified with its fortunes. If the house can really be made a home for the domestic, as well as the family, the mistress may congratulate herself in having escaped the worst and most perplexing ills of the life of the American housewife. In her efforts to accomplish this, she may confidently count on meeting with many cases of incompetency, stupidity, and even ingratitude; but the experiment is in the right direction, and if it fails of complete success can not be wholly without good effects. - Ruth Royal, Louisville, Ky.