TREAMENT OF SERVANTS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 31, 11 February 1875, Page 6

TREAMENT OF SERVANTS.

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may be given rin-iaiton©. as^insulting as-ifcis* fpatui&rasly:*-^ ()ißregafcd;Qf f^elihgC-may.fe s-rari&d-ias if servants bad no r buman* > feeling at all. .. pabitual want "of Oo^sJde^ation for /persons in a dependent /position, far pftener than ill nature., suffers them to exhibit towards their^ servants a hardness and brusquerie^:o£manher, which, if displayed towards themselves, even i fry one having the.right to. direct them, I would fire their ibosoins I*-"with1 *- "with indignation. . Nothrag.but a ;thoughtless''cdh- ! t^mpt pf persons filling- a menial sitvia-^ tiqn need prohibit our showing them, in the most delicate way, the difference; due from one human being: to another. Nothing whatever is lost by putting command in to. the shape of request —by : veiling the hard lienaments of authority in words and tones which. shall give , them a pleasing appearance— -by- indicating a. predominant wish Jto pay , homage to the just susceptibility of a servant in the very act of prescribing tjhe service expected to c be perforihed — by gratefully recognising that service when performed. One- may .treat even a kitchen, maid as obligingly, and with as manifest a delicacy of consideration, as a duchess j and although the manner, in each case would necessarily be difV ferent, the object of it— the wish to place—might be as safety made manifest in the one as ia the- cithfir..— • 'Nonconformist/ . I

* How to Tell.— Some folks think ' handwritingindicativeof character. If wewished to judge from_anyL.externaL tokens, wejhould. prefer to^depide.by. the appearance ofthe room a person most! irequen tly* occupies.- - Taste -j, and, tendencies are written there m legible letter?.,- l*f or isrit-nece*ssar*f v t|ie owner,; should be the possessor of a lone* or 1 rtn ■» ** _ O well-filled, purse * One or two mute tell-tales may answer our purpose as well as a 'dozen. The walls need not be covered -with pictures to demonstrate fhat their possessor is nnear;:t r ; : and 'half a dozen.ubo.oks may speak' of -the quality of the owner's mind as well as a whole library. In short, let us enter unexpectedly any apartment .and take private notes, and our wager on it, wa Should rarely miss the truth iri v our yerdict.- T Fanriy'Eern..' ' What Shall We Eat. — Many persons .eat far ..too much flesh, anil. ' would be the better .for :a ; mpre. copious admixture of vegetal)les, and especially farinaceous ipod,. and nqt-.enpjugh/^esh^ regard being had in either case to the.' Work which .the: individual .has to do, * and- to the .power of .digestion., Too. exclusive a flesh diet is the vice of many, rich people, who eveh alloW 'their' children at school to indulge in game fries and • other particles; of - the* highest class, such as unfit boys for plain fare,and deprive them . of the help which a higher diet might afford them hereafter in case of illness*. Too much animal jbpd is unduly stimulant, genders children restless and quarrelsohie/yourigl' men sensual and arid elderly" jnen gouty and. dyspeptic; Too ex- 1 •j>lusively r vegetabletor* farinacipus a .diet,.especially if triec! too^ suddenly. . by persons unused' to it, has for its first effect to constipate r the bowels^ which becotae -loaded with :; masses! of undigested potato, bread* -or ripe. - We believe it may he .. laid . down as, an ftxiom that,othW : things 1 being equal, jthe more- the:, brsijn -.fig: fvoy^ed, the greater need is there for animal food. * Town 'people must have more meat, as h rule, than eoun^T^ks j the children bf jirofessiopal men ; more thaii the children of'agribultuV^l laborer^ Still, Hch townspeople on-tho whole should use less .flesh^and poor ones more.-r— ,' f Medical Ti_ie_ and Gazette.'' ii, *'!' v ' f [ What AcW^yjs^AN^jDd.-^it is -not j jin economy alone thatihe wife's attention is so .nec^sarv,, but j^n .those-; matters which make * a^^ well-regulatefell house.. Ap ; unf^ifniaheid. cruet-stand,*- $ taiissing key, a buttonless shirt, a soiled jfcableclothi a- ; mustard-pot "with-ftS <-bld ' contents sticking bard and brown about it, are really nothing ; but each can raise an angry word or eduSfrdisccWdrt. * jPepend :uppa it? there is a great deal of : domestic happiness in a well-dressed mutton - chop,- or if tidy br6a*kfa§t f t&Ble. H.*Pi: grow.7Bat«diof beauty, tired of, music, are often too wearied for conversa--1 fion (however intellectiial), but they can j*lwayn.appreciat*a.a: well ; swept ~; hearth, ■and smiling comfort. ,A woman may love her husband devotedly — may sacrifice fortune, frfemlß^family, country for him—she may have the genius of a Sappfrb, th*8 t eneto^d rf beauti!B^o.f saa5 aa ilrmidaj ta^^^ these "she fail to * I %ke3is^omcoinher. And women live so entirely in the effection that, without love, their itai&t&ee ikv&Y4^\yttm¥^hl&m then, to ' household tasks, however tepugnantTthey m*y.QtetWJsni^sisms than doorU yourself to a loveless home. not run this risk \ they know that their I Medical Properties aF-ISkRS&a^ \ The white of an egg has proved of late ! Seven or eight successive applications i jffectualiy exclude the burn from the jut.* rhia aimpte 4mtymk?sMemi %W j collodion, or even cotton. Extraor. W^ae'to^ \ " )ro S^r^^^ * * nfi W oil which is easily inadr _ro_&i the yolks of neas^eggß. I'-Vtojßg&vn first bdldhartffliffpßra mthenyttx^m, msm^M^d

dyer a fire, whereathey c&? e carefully justoa 'the.pofatiof catcWrig/firey'jwliQtt?^ *£g -^separates, r.ppuredL oft. It is in general use among the*,, colonists of Southern Bysk*a^a z __ea'_ > a of curing cuts, brjHsesrand^crat^beea.^^ 'jßoston Journal of Chemistry V