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OUR OMRS TIC SERVICE.

OUR DOMESTIC SERVICE.

I DO not propose to sing the woes of the
American housekeeper. If aught needs to
be added to the body of recent literature on
that theme, the impulse to write must come
from fuller hearts than mine. Let those
who suffer relate how slatternly is Dinah,
how impudent Bridget, how stupid Wilhel-
mina, and, alas ! how fleeting were the delu-
sive joys of Chang- Wang, son of the Sun.
Propria qucB maribus. Because women in-
vade the forum, and crowd us from our
places on the public platform, shall we,
therefore, take refuge in the kitchen, or be so
base as seem to know what passes in that
realm of blackness and smoke ? Perish the
thought! The object of this paper is to
present facts that are not of personal expe-
rience, are authenticated by the testimony of
no single witness, and are of no private
interpretation; facts which pertain to the
life, not of individuals and families, but of
communities and States; facts gathered by
thousands of men, who had as little notion
what should be the aggregate purport of
their contributions as my postman has of
the tale of joy, of sorrow,- pr of debt, which
lies snugly folded in the brown paper envel-
ope he is leaving this moment at my door.
No momentary fretfulness of a mistress
overburdened with cares; no freak of inso-
lence in a maid elated by a sudden access of
lovers ; no outbreak of marital indignation
at underdone bread, or overdone steak, can
disturb the serenity of this impersonal and
unconscious testimony of the Census. The
many millions of rays that fall confusedly
upon the lens which every tenth year is held
up before the nation, are cast upon the
screen in one broad, unbroken beam of light,
truth pure, dispassionate, uncolored.

The English Census discriminates many
varieties of domestic service. There are,
besides “ the domestic servant in general,”
male or female, the “ coachman,” the
“ groom,” the “ gardener,” all of the sterner
sex ; while gentle woman contributes to the
list the housekeeper,” the “ cook,” the
“ housemaid,” the “ nurse,” the “ laundry-
maid,” and the “ char-woman.” All these
titles are respectably filled in the Census, as
might be expected in a country where the
distinctions of wealth are so marked, and
where the household among the upper
classes is organized with a completeness
VoL. XL— 17.

approaching that of the Roman familia
under the Empire.

In the United States, however, the dis-
tinctions of domestic service have not pro-
ceeded far enough to make it worth while
to maintain such a classification of rank and
work ; nor are the agencies provided for our
Census adequate to collect facts in any
direction where discrimination is required.
It was, indeed, attempted in the publication
of the Eighth Census (i860) to preserve a
few of the simpler forms. Thus “ cooks ”
were separately reported; but the number
of the class was disappointing, being but
353 for the United States; of whom 10 were
found in Arkansas, 24 in Delaware, 6 in
Florida, 3 in Georgia, 18 in Kansas, 14 in
Kentucky, 237 in Louisiana, and 41 in
Michigan. The considerable States of New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, and Massachusetts, had, if we
may trust this account, no cooks in i860.
The universal consumption of raw food by
such large communities cannot fail to excite
the astonishment of the future historian.

The attempt to preserve the class “ house-
keeper” resulted in the report of a larger
aggregate number than of cooks; but the
distribution of that number was hardly
more reasonable. Alabama, Maine, Ohio,
Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vir-
ginia had none, individually or collectively.
Think of several thousand “first families ” of.
Virginia^ — of the Rhetts and Barnwells, the
Ruffins and Pettigrews of South Carolina
without a housekeeper among them 1 The
remaining States of the Union were, indeed,
allowed to boast their housekeepers ; but the
figures were such as to excite incredulity.
New Hampshire had 1,245; Connecticut,
25; Pennsylvania, 2,795; New York, 940;
Massachusetts, 4,092; Michigan, 20. Still
another distinction was attempted, the pre-
cise idea of which is not at this date mani-
fest, between “ domestics ” and “ servants.”
Alabama had no domestics, any more than
it had cooks; Arkansas had 797 ; California
and Connecticut, none; Delaware, 1,688;
Florida, 631 ; Georgia, Illinois and Indiana,
none; Iowa, 358; Kansas, none; Kentucky,
1,782. This completed the tale of domes-
tics in the United States. New York, Penn-
sylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia were as
destitute of domestics as before the discov-

The pages of this sheet, numbered consecutively 2SJ to 2^2, are from the December Number of Scribner’s
Monthly, and will be found of interest as containing Dr. Holland’s “Topics of the Time,” and “The Old
Cabinet,” Mr. Gilder. The Literary Notes, and Chapters from Edward Everett Hale’s Story,
and pages of Advertise7nents, are also numbered consecutively.

SCRIBNER & CO.

LITERARY NOTES.

A CLERGYMAN’S FAIRY-TALE.

Our clergymen to-day do not disdain to turn occa-
sionally from parable to fairy-talk, drawing the children
into pleasant, wholesome places by chains of gossamer.
Rev. Edward Eggleston, in a grand fairy-story soon to
appear in “St. Nicholas,” tells the startling adventures
of a little Hoosier boy, who was “clean beat” with
what he saw with his own living eyes. For startling
conceptions and daring flights, commend us to your
big-hearted, wide-awake, poetry-loving parsons of 1875.

and hospitality of the Southern tribes of Indians to
say that one is a friend of Maj. Powell. The in-
trepid explorer is almost an oracle among these In-
dians, and is everywhere received with the greatest
deference, and accorded the highest privileges. In
Scribner’s Monthly for December, he will give an
account of the every-day life of the Indians of the
“Ancient Province of Tusayan,” in Arizona, and will
relate some of their beautiful and poetic traditions,,
and describe with much circumstance the religious
ceremonies to which, by special favor, he was admitted.
Among the Utes and Shoshones Maj. Powell is known
as Kah-pu-rats, meaning “ no right arm.”

AN ICELANDIC STORY.

Bayard Taylor very wisely cooled himself during the
late dog-days by writing an Icelandic story for “ St.
Nicholas,” which is to run as a serial through three
numbers of that enterprising magazine, beginning in
January. The story deals with the Iceland of to-day,
and is said to be in the learned traveler’s freshest and

best vein.

A FINE PICTURE.

A beautiful picture by Mary Hallock appears in St.
Nicholas for December. It is only two children rock-
ing in one chair, but it is a poem, a novelette in itself.

JAPANESE ART.

Nearly everybody in the country has, during the fan-
days at least, some specimens of Japanese art in his or

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acv.uiuing great praise to tne superior
management of French finances.

HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN.

H. H. Boyesen, “the Norwegian novelist,” is, in real-
ity, an American novelist ; an American by citizenship,
and, what is more than can be said of some Americans,
in spirit also. His latest short story, “ A Scientific
Vagabond,” will appear in Scribner for December.
Mr. Boyesen, now a Professor at Cornell, is said to be
engaged upon works of more importance than any yet
given by him to the public.

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

St. Nicholas, the unseen and mysterious, has, it
seerns, a powerful ally in “ St. Nicholas,” the visible
and matter-of-fact. That practical w’orker for the good
of boys and girls promises to come out in December,
or sooner, with full directions for getting up a hundred
Christmas presents, all of home-handiwork, from pretty
things that can be made by tots of five or six years, to
elegant affairs that call for the skill of the biggest and
cleverest brothers and sisters.

We hereby disinterestedly and cordially advise all
our young friends to read and profit by this article.

KAH-PU-RATS.

It is said by a member of one of the Western expe-
ditions that it is a sufficient passport to the good graces

isK'S, read like a

ANOTHERI MAGAZINE ;G0NE.

The Young People'^s Magazine, of Boston, started
soon after Our Young Folks was merged in St.
Nicholas, with the view of providing a first-class peri-
odical for children, at a low price, has now been discon-
tinued, and its unexpired subscriptions will be filled by
St. N1CH01.AS.

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