THE DATL EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 18G6. clrl don't speak more thon jou aro compelled to do." 1 1 banked my frlond soon after, and deeply f thought of all Bhe had been aa.YiiiK. There hnd been so much comfort In my parenU' homo with only one servant, that I could not understand why two should cause me so much trouble. Borne davs after this, as tbiues went so com fortably,"! did not trouble to replace Mary, the cook came to say that she wished to leave, as it Tfas so dull, and she had always been used to a follow-servant. As the jtirl suited me I was sorry for thi, but by no inducement that I could oil'T could she be prevailed upon to stay. I then madV up my mind to the chnmrc. though I so hated It. Myhutland said ihdt two servants must be had; one only In the house of a medical man did not look respectable. This decided the mattr. For some, time I inquired In the nolshborhoorl, at shops, and among friends, lor their recommendation ol any girls, till the month of the cook's notice had neatly expired. That she meant to leave was evident in her manner; she startled me ono morninjr by saying, "If you please, ma'am, which hour to-day will be convenient to you to see a ludy respecting ray character?" so I knew there w hs no hope of her rcroaiuin?. "But I am not suited, June; surely, you will not think of leaving before I get some one ?" "The ludy has no servanr, ma'am, and both I and Mary are going to her on Monday, if my character suits." My astonishment was unbounded. "Why did not Mary ask to come back to mo f ' "Because I wrote and told her that you said it was so much more comtortable with one er vaut, that she did not think you cared to have her back." "But how came you to know that I said so?" I nuked. "I never told you." "I have heard you tell master twenty times, and you told Mrs. Lester so wbrnslie was here." A lady then culled, and from her I learned that scarcely any servants were to be heard of excepting at the registry olliees, where ladies were making up their minds to go as a matter or course; and she highly recommended one in a neighboring town, that was reported to have always a great number of servants to choose from. I did not quite like this mode of pro ceeding, but when I lound that girls were to be obtained in no other way I reluctantly gave in, and the next day made my tint appearance in this, as I attorwaids heard, excellent home for servants. On my arrival I found upwards of twenty ladies sitting round two rooms opening into each other with folding-doors, someot them un mistakably gentlewomen, yet they were appa rently engaging with the most odt-lookinir young women, whose manner and dress ap peared almost disreputable. Crinolines like hooped casks, feathers, veild, ear-riuas, tiounces, and long trailing dret-ses were the order of the day; just as it the girls had equipped them selves from a variety of rag-shops, such wns the style of their costume. Not one girl that I saw would I have taken into my service. At the end ot eight hours, tired and cross, I left un Huited, and alter a weary journey of six milea in an omnibus, 1 arrived home leeling that this had been the hurdest and most unsatisfactory day's work I had ever experienced; and worse, I bad to endure a repetition, perhaps more than once, for I lizard one lady say to aaolher, that 6he had been to the ollice every day lor three weeks and was unable to hnd a useful general servant. What a prospect lor me, who had only four days in which to obtain some help or other 1 The second day found me less particular in my scrutiny of laces and attire. I had always a habit ol endeavoring to hnd out mysteries, and so I began to speculate upon wlint Ireak possessed these girls to come in their tawdry tiuery, from wherever procured, rather than in their proper working-clothes. The afternoon came on, and yet I was unsuited. A lady, whom I had seen the day before, now entered, and, addressing herself to mo, asked it many bervants had been hired. I could not tell. The ice of reserve once broken, I asked her if the girls really were servants. "Ob, yea. they are servant, and some of them good girls, too." "But their dress !" I remarked. "True, that it is the fault ol thoughtless mistresses, who give them tneir cast-oil' clothes, and the girls, I am told, generally make a holi day of the remaining hours alter they leave here, and go with the young men of their acquaint ance to cheap places of amusement, which they could not do you know, in their working clothes. 1 wish to hnd a general servant, taougn I keep two others, aim never hire a cook, notwith standing it is what I need; for, as a regular cook will not wash up breakfast things, nor, in iact, go out of her way to assist at ail, it is quite out of my power to hire one, and especially lor the reason that my husband's income will not admit ol any extravagance, the common failing of hull educated cooks, so called." "But there must be good servants to bo had, if only ono knew how to get them," I replied. "Undoubtedly there aro, but they eeek and find places in a di iterant class. They have been trained to work, and understand what is re quired of them, and how to do it. They are desirous of keeping their places, and would deem it beneath them to obtain a situatiou other than by recommendation. But all are not good servants who get a footing in families of rank and position, as I have known to my c st, for under the impression that I was being admira bly suited, I hired a young woman who hud been kitcben-maid in Lord C.'s tamily, never reflecting that, had she been worth keeping, she would never have descended to the rank of gene ral servant. "By-lhe-way, efficiency in this class of ser vants is dillicult to obtain. I do not, at this moment, recollect more than two that really were what they professed to be; but they are usually good tempered, soft-handed, idle, and inattentive, but honest young woman, who have grown up to do as they liked, without au idea of method or thorough cleanliness, and to whom active, orderly mistresses are perfect torture; who take to impertinence as a defense; for what mistress will make reply to iuBult? "I am now seeking a young girl of sixteen, to train her to my work. I begin to think that I have found my mission, as it is said that every womanlhas one and that is to train up ser vautit, as it would seem, tor others' benefit hith erto. However, it is but a return to the days of our great-grandmothers: they spent hours in their kitchens, acd trained their servants to "work, and their daughter in their own steps. Now we want to hud good household helpers, ready-made to our hand, without any effort of our own. This we know cannot be, unless bout some thousand training schools were opened lor their manufacture; and even then I do not ace that mistresses ot the middle class -would benefit much, lor the colonists abroad would be sending over premiums to the girls to emigrate, offering each a good home and a good husband." And my new friend laughed heartily, as she rose, saying, "It is no use staying longer; the girls have gone home to their tea dinner at 3 o'clock, and will not return." "Yet there are plenty of voung women sitting down there," I remarked; "why don't they come up ?" "They are not young women; they are waiting for the chance of finding some very young mar ried lady, who trembles at the very thought of her responsibility, and who would be glad to find a Steady middle-aped vAmnn wtin m,.,i A take all the worries of housekeeping off her hands. Ana here comes a lady of the kind a on oi jluib vupperneio, you know." Truly, as she had said, the uh yi. by a host of women, varying in age from forty to sixty, and even older. I was greatly amused at the pretty, mincing av in which th l.in addressed the fawning, cringing creatures, one alter another, as they came to her. They were eviuri'uy uui quite mo sun bub uesirea to have but it seemed as if she must select one of them! "I am verv uaiticular. and my hnghRnd i al most exacting, and he wishes to hav the cook in very nicely done, and you must be very punctual," she said to the youngest of the party. "How manv la there in the familv. nmniT" "Only my husband and myself. A house-maid Is kept" "Do you keep much company, mum V "No; we have no dinner parties." Then, mum, I think I'd best cotcciae; b cause there cant be many perklnlte I always has tbe dripping, and two folks don't make much." The lady bowed, but made no reply, though her face liushed. Another and most repulsive looking woman came to her, and again the whole matter was detailed. "Have I cot to wash up, mum ?" "Certainly; and jou have to place the break fast on the tabic, and should we lequiro any thing during the time yon will have to attend." "Then, mum, I ehoulau'l buit you. I want to get a superior place." "But mine is. I think, a superior place, and a very comior'.uble one," tbe lady coi.de.icuded roP.v. "Cooks don't never wa ll up things in superior places, and I haven't come to ti.at yet," the woman irutiercd, as she turned to go. Others came in tbeir turn one could not get up early, "Uood families never required them to do it;" another always paid thn household bills hersclt; and, auain, one hoood that the kitchen cloths were washed out; and soon to tbe end ol the cliBpter; when the poor girl-wife looked so worn-out and wearied that I pitid her; still she made no advances to sp:iV, and in turning to look down the stairs her eyes en countered (he most cunning-looking woman c oming up that I had ever seen. The poor ludy sat down almost in despair, but, contrary to her expectations, the woman de murred'to nothing; she accepted the situation as it was ollered to her, making no stipulatious w hatever; and so, contingently upon her char acter suiting, the woman was hired; and as sue stood at the table while the lady wrote her ad dress, she gave to her companions in the pawaue such a diabolical wiuk of tbe eye a I had never witnessed, which spoke a? plainly as possible. "I've done for her." The lady, glad to be re leased, went on her way rejoicing, liltle sus pecting how she had been duped. I afterwards heard how the aU'wir ended, for the ludy was a new-comer In the neighborhood, nnd a near neighbor of mine, thouch i bad not then seen l.er. The w oman entered her set vice, and behaved so badly, that sooner than have the annoyance of her for a month ahe had been paid a month's wage?, and had been sent away. Several hiends whom I have since known, have been served precisely tho same, these w omen actually gaining their living by their misconduct and fraud. My second day in the regi-try ofTice had come to a clo&e. Some servants would not go out of town, others would not live where children were, others objected to wash, some wished to have their friends once a week, others must go to church twice every Sunday, and so many objections were raised, and conditions imposed, that it seemed as if 1 was never to get a serv.'int. I no longer looked at the dreso if it were only ii little decent was all I cared for; I was reluc tant to negin the teaching business I offered good wages, and the same allowance that my mother said was usual, aud I offered to put out the washing; all was readily accepted, but when I came to iuquire into their cooking abilities and 1 always commenced by asking how soles were tried, how greens were boiled," and oilier Him pie matters the variety ol replies was amusing, but their character i-bowcd how little the girls knew of the subject. I had one day's grace; if 1 could not succeed 1u finding help then, 1 must perforce take a uirl ui.d tench her. The following morning, as I was entering the ollice, I met two young women w ho wished to lind places together; both were dressed in black, and consequently looked tidy. I lorbore to question them as to their capabilities; they hud a twelve-months' character, and a personal in terview could be obtained with their mistress at no reat distance. 1 observed that the hoine maid appeared extremely delicate, if not ill, but was told that she had looked so from a child. To make a long story short, they had not been in the house more than a week when the poor pallid girl was taken seriously ill, and obliged alter a week to be removed to her home; a ca?e of suppressed illness, my husoand culled it, on furposeto get nursing and medical attendance, aiterwaras heard this was no uncommon ocenr ree. Then the cook pot unhappy alter the first month, and she too must go; notwithstand ing I looked over much shortcoming, got a girl in to help with the children, and attended to much ol the cooking iuyseli. I afterwards un derstood that a gas-titter in the neighborhood had prrsuadud Ler to leave her place for a dis tant town where he had employment. Repeatedly I had to endure this same trouble; every two or three months my visit to the re gistry ollice was a thing to be anticipated. As for cleanliness in the house, thorough cleanli ness, I bad to give up as unattainable; my kitchen looked dingy, the tins were unscoured, excepting when I had a woman in toe this pur pose, who helped to make the bouse still more unBottled by gossiping and relating the news of the neighborhood. I began to hnd that I was but au upper servant, paying high wages to in competent persons and doing the work myself. f-o tne learning Dusiness uau to dc tried, it may be said that I had a guarantee for my ser vants' conduct in the characters I received with them. Not so. One-half of the characters were made up of false statements, and the other half concealed just what should nave been discov ered, under the pretense ot not "injuring poor girls" by exposing their shortcomings. Thus the new mistress is deceived, and the girl pro bably dismissed with ignominy, to meet a ques tionable fate. 11 mistresses were true, servants would be honest and industrious; at least, they would endeavor to be so; but so long as tney can obtain fresh places without difficulty, by false representation, so long will they set ah orderly, methodical mistress at defiance, aud give the best place a bad name. This opinion is the experience of a lifetime. The chief reason why 6ervauts are so indifferent, is that mis tresses have themselves helped mainly to make them so, by giving them undeserved characters, and by concealment ot their chief lauits. so to begin my servants' education, and realize some comlort myself, I sought and found a clean, pleasant young woman to take care of the children, and required from her neither needle-work nor any personal attendance. She bad to attend to the nursery entirely. There the cook never entered. And soou alter, I wa recommended to take a young girl, industri ously brought ud. and teach her cooking; but this did not happen till I had tried several ser vants, who disgusted us witn tneir 9ioveniy ways, dirty habits, and extravagance. I began almost to doubt whether the happy days of Susan and her mother were not entirely mythi calwhether they were not the remembrance of fome happy dream. The girl's name was Kezlah ; she was cleanly, intelligent, and observant, three qualities I had not lound in any Detoro. "Have you a love lor cooking ?' 1 asked. "Yes, ma'am; 1 would do anything to become a cook." "Simply to cook is easy enough; but can you have a place for everything, and keen everything in its placer The saucepans must oe kept tree from grease. Tbe cloths be clean and ready tor ue. Tho larder be neat, clean, and free from all that would taint meat or butter. The Dread pan must be wiped out daily, and the pastry board and rolling-pin be kept white aud sweet. au tnese things are necessary tor a cook to at tend to, besides fifty other noedful matters which will be required of you in time. If you think you can do all these things, then I will try you, if you will have patience, and be as ob servant and thoughtful as you can." I would just remark, that without the two last qualities a mistress may as well attempt to carry water in a sieve, as expect to reap any benefit from teaching her domestics. CHAPTER IIL Potato Eggi Stale and Fresh Eggs Bacon Fat Its Uses How to Wash Crockery A Digression about Black Beetle How to Destroy Them To Prevent a Boiler from Cracking To Boil Mutton Tender A Hint about the Bones-To Boil Car rots To Prepare and Fry Cutlets To Steam Potatoes A Bice Pudding without Eggs Meat Stock Hashed and Potted Beef Vegetables to be Washed In Warm Water Pea Soup. Keziah bad lived some six months with a lad v, and she thought she knew something of cook ing, so I was informed the first day of her trial, and if I would let her try she felt quite sure she could cook the simple dinner of boiled, beet, carrots, and potatoes. I thought it just pot ble that the girl might have been properly taught, and so li ft ber to herself. Had my hus band been coming home that day, 1 should scarcely have ventured the experiment. The dinner was behind time tor cervine nearly an hour, and then I went into the kitchen, tor I had been engaged with some callers who seemed to ret In that morning with a determination to monopolize me. "V ny are you so late, Keiah V I asked. "The cari ots are not done, ma'am, I can't think why." . I lookod into the saucepan, they were nearly black; tho potatoes were a mash, ami the bocf was boiling very rpldly. I must oonfess that I wns nnerv, atiiffaui: "Now, Keziah, whatever you think you know about cooking von must endeavor to lorget; the dinner is spoiled. You have put the carrots into rold water, and with soda; the meat is very bard, and the potatoes are watery and mih II of the Iron ol tne saucepan. Tbe carrots must bo thrown aw ay, and the meat I dread to taMc" 1 had the polotoes turned out, the driest por tion of them tuken oil the top, and mixed with a tiny bit ot b'ltter and salt; I then buttered an iron spoon, filled it with otato, pressed the potato with another spoon so as to form It to an erg-shape; then I turned thee "potato eggs" on to a (bit dish, rublx d a little butter over each, then placed them before a huge and blow ing lire, which the girl bad wastetully kept up. In a few minutes tho "eggs" were browned; they were then turned over on the other side and browned. At lust they made a very pre sentable dish. I should observe that it was In March, w hen the potatoes were but mdiirereut, and the carrots old. Tho beef was, as I ex pected, bard, dry, and tasteless. Kcziah vol unteered the Information, "Of course, that must be the butcher's fault, who sent such bad meat." 1 did not then answer her, but tho old adage enme to my mind of the namelcse one who sends the cooks. In the evening as I was looking around the kitchen to pee that nil was right before going to bed, the girl asked me it I would tell her why fhe had failed ; the dinner ? "It is of little use to tell Ton now, Kcziah; some day we shall have boiled beef again, and I will show you how to cook it." lhave ever found the entire uselessness of touching bow a thing is to be accomplished, except at the actual moment when it is about to be doi e. Tbe morning brought its troubles. I thought surely the girl can toast some bacon without my going into the kitchen so parly. Alas! it came plentiliilly sprinkled with cinder dust, on a cold oish decorated with parnlcy sprigs, and half tilled with brown, dirty-looking tat. There was just tini'i lor me to eo 'into the kitchen, put a rasher of bacon on the toastinc-for. aud get it ready before Allen came to breakfast. I saw it wa useless to complain, so 1 did not annoy him with my worries. Presently 1 lilted a boiled egg; it was hollow, and the uncracked cud turned upwards tor appearance sake. The second was the same. This will never do, 1 tboueiit; U Is easier to do the work oneself. I must con lc8 to great irritation of temper, by what I could not but deem the eirl's stupidity. ) Then I recollected how ofteu, lately, I had the same sort ol thing to put up with, and in addi tion had to pav hiirh wages, "wiirt everything found," whiie with Keziali the rate of payment wits trilling, and she wns content with tea from ourteapoi. This consideration made me patient. Alter breakiaiu I went into the kitchen to commence my day's teaching. ".Now, Keziah. be watchful; 'this' is the way to cook bacon, "i ou see that 1 have cut the bacon into slices, and 1 will first show you how to do this; scrape the rind until it is quite clean; now, turn a dish upside down, put tho bacon on it, and with a sharp knife and carving fork pare otf the rind as Urn as possible, and lay it on one side; now turn tbe bucon over, pare oil' all the brown surface; now cut between each bone, and take each out singly, so that there is no waste, and all the lean is left on the bacon. Put away the tones' with the nnd; these will serve to flavor soup. Now turn the bacon edee.va.ys, and by sticking the lork into the end tirmlv, with the spring-guard up, aud with a largo sharp knife, you see, I can cut the bucon into thin slices without a panicle of waste. In doing this at a leisure moment, time, trouble, and inconveni ence aie saved; but as you are too young to manngethis.it is best for nie to do it mysel'. How enme you to break all the eggs to-Jiiy In boiling them. Keziah ?"' I asked. '.Directly I put 'em in the boiling water, ma'am, they burst. I didn't put 'em in hard, not at all." "Kemember to put them in quite cold water and let them boil slowly; as soon as thpy boil they are done. It is because the weather is cold, and the eggs are not new-laid, that ithey burst. All disappointment in this way can be saved by putting them into cold water instead of into boiling; but a new-laid egg is best held in a spoon lor a moment over the steam, and then put in boiling water; in three minutes the egg will be set." "But I've seen new-laid eggs put into boiling water for only a minute or leas. My missis uied to eat 'em because she was in a decline, aud tho doctor said they was most nourishing in that wav." "It is quite true; they are an excellent diet for invalids when they are new-lald, but would bo too expensive in my family, so we must make the best we can of the ireshest eggs we can buy at a cheap rate. Now about the bacon, Keziah. You must not fry it as you did this morning. I told you to toast it before the tire. Why did you not obev me ?" "I couldn't find anything to toast it in. and I hnd too much to do to hold it on a fork, besides the tire was so hot." "Now, then, bring me two old flat dishes, a large one, and one a size smaller. Turn the smallest upside down in the largest, letting one side of the dish lie on the edge ot the large one; draw out the grate-rack 1n front of the fire, now observe that I lay the bacon on the upper dish which is slanting, and putitbeloretbo fire, only a sufficient distance from it to prevent the cin ders from falling in. Thus you see the bacon pets gradually cooked through while tbo fat runs into the i h below, and when cold will be perfectly white, and is equal to any lard for making pastry. You see, I can't a fiord to have tbebaconfateaten.it must alwavs be saved. As soon as the bacon is ready it mHst be put into a hot dish and be served directly, after wards the fat be poured into a c!ean preserve jar or basin; then wash up the dishes and put them together, and see that they are never used fur anything but toasting bacon. "In another place you may be desired to send the liquid fat to table, and by this meauj of toasting tbe bacon you can have it nice and white instead of peppered with cinder-dust." "I never knew any one take account of bacon fat before, ma'am." "Perhaps not; and yet, Keziah, if I were very rich indeed, and knowing as 1 do the use ot it, I should direct it to be saved. The French aro very celebrated for their cookery, and they use a great deal ot bacon cut into strips for w hat Is termed larding the meat or game or poultry, and of course no one gets the bete fit of the bacon, because it is generally dried up and hurtful to eat; now I like to eat the bacon tor my breakfast, and save the fat to lard or drip the meat with. Veal, fowls, and rabbits, when roasted, should always be cov ered with bacon fat, and then be well floured before putting to the fire; by so doing all the juices of tbe meat or poultry are kept in, and it does not become dry. It is a wasteful prac tice to use butter for-these things. Now you will understand how to cook fhe bacon to morrow morning." "Yes, ma'am, I can manage now; and I'll wash up tbe breakfast things." I went into the larder for five minutes, aud hearing a great clatter of crockery, returned to see a large pan used for washing vegetables, filled with glasses, plates, cups, and saucers altogether, over which Keziah was pouring a kettlefull of boiling water; one of the glasses snapped as I entered. "Oh, Keziah, you must not do that; get the two smaU tubs that you will find on the shelf in the scullery." They were brought. "Now, then, wash the glasses one at a time with cold water in tbe tub that is only made to hold one glass; if you wash them in hot, tbey will look dim. Then wipe them with one cloth and polish them with another j aud fur the breakfast things, put into a basin all' the slops that may be in the cups and saucers, and throw them away, not into the washing-up water: then scrape all the pieces Hnd scrap.-, otf the pUtes Into one of the d'shes; these pieces will go to feed tbe chickens. Now wash tbe cups nnd saucers In the large tub. Pint get a piece of rag and a little soap to take off all grease spots and stains. How rinse each Cup snd saucer in cold water, and turn them upside down on a tray to drain. "Take a little more boiling water, and wash the plates and dishes; rinne them and drain tbem also; men wipe tho whole, commencing with the cups. Now throw away the water; collect tbe iibs, pour some hot watr Into each; don't use boiling water, or the bottom ot each will crack round, and come out. Take that common bristle brush wbicu you see hanging yonder. Now wash the inside of each with this, and throw the water into tbe tub; then stand each jug singly in the tub, and with the brush a lit lie soaped, clean the outside, aDd alo the crevice ot the handle. Now rinse each, and tutu it to drain, then wipe .then and turn tbem upside down on the dresncr shelf, and you may be certain that neither dust nor black beetles can get in. Take fresh water and a very little toda and wash out your clothp, put them in a pan of cold water to rinse, then hang them in the air to fry. ' Now wasn the trays and scrub the tablo, then wash your face and bands, and then you will have finished this part ot your work.'' Keziah was tractable, and did as she was told, though it took more than an hour to instruct her in that which I have narrated in such a breathless mauuer. Numberless kitchens are infested with black hectic, which are difficult to get rid ot. It is a mercy thnt these creatures are inoffensive; that thev neither sting nor do they leave a poison ous trail; still one does not like to eat the food they pave crawled over, or drink from any vessel in which they have made a resting-place. That we sometimes imbibe the essence of beetles in pcriect innocence of the cause which per meates the noxious beverages, the following re lation will show, and is '.he reason why we have now no boiler attached to our kitchen-grate; there bad been one Indeed, but it bad been broken tiom the carelessness of one of my many "help.-" (?); for having neglected to keep the ball of the self-siip; lying boiier in cood order, the water in the grate boiler had dried away; aud then instead of putting a kettletnl otboiOnri liquid m it, she pushed down the ball, ami let In a deiuge of cold water, w hen tho iron imme diately cracked. At some expense we had a second boiler put in; within twelve mcntt.s this was served iu the same way, but not before I had found con stant iault with our tea, it bad such a pecu liar tiisie. totally unlike anything 1 can de sciibc. I examined tbe great cistern, the kettle, and the teupot; there was no cause tor it m cither of these. One day, standing in the kit chin. 1 saw the cook nil the kettle from the boiltr of the grate; I remonstrated with her. and desired it may not be done again, as I lilted to have perfectly fresh water lor my tea. full, day alter day the same unpleasant flavor con tinued - pteuominated over the aroma of the tea and (oilee. Alter a time it was aLnounced to me that the boiler wa cracked, and as suddenly the peculiar table which I complained of van ished. In domestic matters, if things by break age or othetwise go wrong, I have found tuat the best way is to have them speedily replaced or repaired; aid so I gave orders to have another new boiler put in. Curiosity led mo to the kitchen just as the man was taking out the supply boiler. I looked in and saw that it was half lull of the dead bodies of beetles. A very pretty trap this boiler had been tor catching them; nothing could ex ceed it. Instead of the cover having been put on again at each time that the ball bad been reguiaud, it had been lelt oil. The beetles cruwled up the wall, and being of an inquiring tinn, dropped from thence inio the cistern to meet their death irom their temerity. The mystery was solved. The order for putting in the boiler was countermanded; and since then, it is needles to suv. none has been attached to the grate; all tho water is made hot in kettles, or lor butns, iu the washii.g copper. Where beetles infest a kitchen it is scarcely possible to prevent their getting into the supply boiler, and constant care is asked from the mistress to see that it is kept clean, unless it be entirely iu closed. A thoroughly pood servant would not use the Voiler-cistern lor oihcr than washiuor purposes; but then such servant? nrc nowlere. Many are tbe nostrums and pates advertised aud sold for destroying beetles. Upon some oi these pastes I have known them to thrive amazingly; and a bain oi raw soda is a luxury upon which they are very lively. I have also tried red lead wiib Hour ui.d tieacle mixed; this will kill a few, but, like most creatures with an instinct for danger, they are wary altera time. To make them commit suicide by drowning, or to have beetle-traps always kept on a kitchen floor, and elsewhere if needful, is the only way to rid the house ot the plague. Even then, a mistress must si e that its victims are regularly submitted to the action of boiling water, or the trap will soon be tilled to overflowing. We can scarcely reckon upon girls doing anything but w hat they are compelled to do. Xo empty a beetle-trap is not necessary lor any meal, nor Is it a part of daily service; hence it will bo neglected. . I wish some antiquarian would tell us why beetles were deified by tho Egyptians, then we may. perhaps, convert them to 6ome use as we do shnmps, which, to say the least of, are hor ribly carnivorous feeders, while tbe beetles are not, they getting their living mostly off the crumbs which are scattered about, and which "are nothing to nobody." From breakfast to beetles is a digression I must be pardoned. A servants would say, it came "permiscus-likc." But it arose from ex plaining the cause why tho jugs were to be turued upside down on the dresser, instead of being hung up to serve as insect traps. The breaklast things washed, the fire made up, and the saucepans, to be used in cooking for dinner, filled and put over the tire, we hasu ned up stairs to the bedrooms. I should mentioii here, that our first morning meal was over by bait-past eight o'clock; consequently, it gave us a good start in tho day, instead of beginning breakfast at nine, a custom prevalent in too many families. Day after day I went with my pupil into each room, and watched her pro ceedings, giving a bint here and there, en couraging, and showing kindly how the work was to be done.' In making the beds, I rarefy helped, beyond standing on one side of the bed, and assisting to arrange the bed-clothes, and, with my own solt duster taking the dust from my own and husband's toilet-iable, and placing the things on nttatly. This I had always done with other servants, and it, therefore, was no addition to my work; I did all I could to help, but unseen. If Keziah had witnessed me, the work would have been constantly left lor me to do. Water freshly boiled is not so good tor tea as that which lias been boiling tor a long time, as thon the earthy matters are precipitated in the form oi "rock," and the water lor making lea beoomps soft ened. Iwo ounces of tea will go tut far as three, if it be made with filtered tain water. To be continued in Tuesday'' 8 issue. SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS, & J W. SCOTT & CO., SHIBT MANUFACTUBEBS, AMD PUUH lit MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, No. 814 CHESNUT Street, FOCB D00B8 BlLOW THE "CQxTINENTAL, 886 jtP PHILADELPHIA. pATENT SIIOULDER-SEAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FUKNISHING STOBE. FEBFECT FITTING SI11BT8 A KB DBAWEH3 made irom mewareiDent at verj short nouoe. AU otter aittclesof GENTLEMEN DKES3 GOODS l.mil,ar.tr. WINCXIKSTJSK & CO., 8 21? Ko. 106 CRE3NUT Street 'LOOIUNQM I 18GG. FLOOUINGI V riOOKlNO FLO' MriGIt D-t AltUl.in A I liUUKINU, 4- 4 CAKOLIKA FLOOR1NO. 5- 4 VIRUIMa r OOhlNIJ. 4-4 VIRGINIA FLOORING. .S-4 HKLAWAHK VLOORINO. HDIUWAIIK FLOORING AH H AND WALNUT ri.O"k!NO. ABU AND WALNUT FLOORING. HTKP BOARDS, i, IRAIL I'LANK. 1 Rfin P LAST K RING LATII3 1 1 lOUU. PLASTF.R1NG LATI1S, AT KKIIli KI PBll'tH. AT BKDUCF.U PRICES. i Qdft. CRHAK AND PINK 81IINGLRS. J-OOO. CEDAR AND PINK, HHINUI.ES. No. 1 LONG CF.DAR SHINGLED. No. 1 HHOUT CEIMH 8HINGLE8. WH1TK PINK iUINOLE8. CTI REHf BII IMiLF.8. FINE ASSORTMENT FOR 8AL-K LOW i Gfifi LLMHKR l'OU UNDERTAKERS! 1 JLOUv). Ll'WHER FO rNDEBTAKERSll RED CHiAK. WALM'T, AND PINE. ' RED 1 EDA R WALNUT, AND PINK i Q(P. ALKANY LUMBER OP ALL KINDS, -LOUU. ALMANY LUMBER OK ALL KINDS hK.AHONED WALNUT. SEASONED WALNUT. DRT POPLAR CHERRY, AND ARO. OAK I LK AND BDt. MAHOGANY. ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT YF.ST.ERM. i Q(C CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS. lOUU. C1GAK-1IOX MANUFACTURER!!. SPANISH CEDAR liOX HOARDS. AT REDUCED PRICES. i QC(l HPKUCE JOIST l SPRUCE JOIST! J.OUO. SPRUCE JOLS'I ! SPRUCE JODll't FROM 14 lO 91 FEET LUNG. FROM 14 TO ii FEET LONG. SPRUCE SILLS HEMLOCK PLANK AND JOIST. OAK SILLS. MAULE BBOTRFR CO., 8 21 6mrp No. 2SW SOUTH oTKI.K.T. DAlirENTEKS AND BUILDERS CANT SAVE TEN PER CENT. By purolnulng of me W. PINE BOARDS, RUN OF THE LOO. W. FINE ROOFING ANDSO A FFOLDiNO BOARDS, FIRST AND SECOND COMMON BOARDd. 'JU1RD COMMON BOARDS. W. PINE AND SAP PINE FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. W. PINE AND CYPRESS SUiWGLES. JANNEY. NOBLE STREET WHARF. 811m go. SOONorth DEL.VWAB E Aveu ua. TJ KITED STATES BUILDER'S MIL Ii, Ncs. 24, 26, and 28 S. FIFTEENTH St., PHILADELPHIA. ESLER & BROTHER, WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAllt BALUS TERS, NEWEL POSTS, GENERAL TURNING SCROLL WOIiK, ETC. SHELVING PLANED TO ORDER. The largest amortiucnt ot Yi ood Mouldings lo this clij coiiMBuuv ou nauu. I la (iu T C. PERKINS, lUMBEIt MEROIIANT bucccBsor to it. Clark, Jr., No. 324 CHRISTIAN STREET. Constantly on baud a large and Taxied assortmen oi Building Lumber. G 44 COAL. O N E TRIAL SECURES TOUR CUSTOM WMTIVEY & HAMILTON LEHIGH, SCHUYLKILL, AND BITUMINOUS COAL, Ro. 935 Korih MMH Street Above Poplar, Kiwt Side. 62 JAMES O B R I EN DEALER IN LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL COAL BT TBE CARGO OR SINGLE TON. Yard, Broad Street, below Fitzwater. Has constantly on band a competent supply of tbe above superior Cdal, sui able lor famiiy use, to which be calls the attention of hi friends and the public generally. Order left at No. 206 (South Fifth street, No. 32 South Seventeenth street, or through Despatch or Post Office, promptly attended to. A SUPERIOR QUALITY OF BLACKSMITHS COAL. JUS MISCELLANEOUS. T? IT LER, WEAVER & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Manilla and Tarred Cordage, Cords Twines, Etc., . No. 23 North WATER Street, and No. 'ii N ortii DELAWARE Aveuue, IilLAiKU'HlA. EDWIK TJ. FlTLXR, MICHABL WjfAVXB, CUKI1D X Clotuieb. Hi Q.EOROE PLOWMAN, CAKPENTEIl AND I3UIL.DEK, No. 232 CARTER Street And No. 141 DOCK Street. Machine Woik and UillwrlgbUiig promptly attendi to i 0 0 K N EXCHANOE HAO MANUFACTOKT. JOHN T. BA1LU 1 O BEHOVED TO N. E. comer of MAKE hi and WATEB Btre i, HitaUalphi. DEALERS IN JJAUS AND BAOGLNQ oi every uencifptlon, for Oialn, Flour, Bait, auper P aoeplutla of Lima, Bon Duat, Etc Lars ana small GUNNY BAGS canatantly on hand. Smi Atao. WOOLSACKS, j ohm T. Baiut. Jamb Cajcapm. LEXANDEK O. C ATT ELL A CO. fBODUCB COMMISSION MEBCHABT3, So. 36 NORTH WHARVES, AHD 0. 17 NORTH WATEB STREET, miLADELfUlA. 1 AHIAED" . CATTaiX. KL1JAB O. CATTIII C- OTTON AMD FLAX SAIL DUCK AHD CASTAS, Ol all number aud brands. Tent. Awning. Trunk, and Wagon-t'OTer Duck. Alao Paper alBDUlacturara' Piter Foils, from on to aevaa feet WMlei J'aullnii. Bejtlug, Ball Twine. t. JOAN W. KVKEMAN A Co., itS Mo ! JONES' AlW. WILLIAM 8 . GRANT, COMMISSION MERCHANT, So. U B. DELAW ARC Avenue, Philadelphia, Aomf ton Dnpont'i Gunpowder, Kolmed Nitre, Charooal, EtO. W. Baker A Co 'a Chocolate. Cocoa, anil Bronia, Urocaer bro. A Co.'v XHuw Metal biioaUlUK, Bolts, nil NalU. 14 LUMBER. WATCHES, JEWELRY ETC. FIXE GOLD WATCHES. v ovjuurners in our vnya We call ipcelal attention of tbe lojouraon to eat oHr t tlia lo INK WATCH AND SILVKRWARK ESTABLISHMENT OP W. W. CASSIDY, 1 Ke. 1 South SECOND Street, ho baton bind one olttae flneet aaaortmenU oi Jew- i.v.c.e. or any m the cltj. A aplcndld waortaieat at LTER WARE ALWAYS ON HAND. Remember EI W. V. CASS 1 1) Y, 8 lB No. 12 Bontn SECOND Street MAMOXD DEALER & JWrTLFlOi I VttTllta Imi Pi ex . ...... . ' . ' "' ' WARS, WATCIIZS and JEWELUT P.I?AIEED. .0J3 5...... a, T",:i 7 Owing to tbe do.'llr, tn.M .-. . -uctlon , prfc. of hl.UrYeT.d'we" ."Vd ZT DlHtnonds, Watches, Jewelry, hilvervrare, Bto Tbe public are rr Kpectfully tavltf d to call and examla our etock before purchasing elsewhere. ttt SILVER AND PLATED GOODS OP THE Most Superior Workmanship, AT TUB STORE NEW No 704 ARCH STREET. 6'S BOWMAN & LEONARD. MUSICAL BOXES. A lull Effort mmt oi above goodn constantly an Hand at modeiato pnceK-the HuaicalBoxen dUvIu lroiu 2 to 10 U auiilal Airs. FABR & EH OTHER, Importers, No. 824 CHESNUT STREET, 11 llsmtlirp jjeiow joartu HENRY HARPER, No. 520 AIICII STUEE1 Wanulactu and Dealer ta Watclxea I4'itie Jewelry, Silvfei'-l'lated Ware, AND 81 Sbolid Silver-Ware. RICH JEWELRY JOHN BliENNAN, DEALER IN DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, JEWELRf , Etc. Etc. Eto. 9 20$ Ro. 18 S. EIGHTH SI EKiiT.riiiW. ' " SADDLES AND HARNESS. JHE OLDEST AND LARGEST RADDLE AND HARNESS MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT IN THIS COUNTRY. LACEYt MEEKEU & CO., RETAIL HOUSE, No. 1216 CHESNUT STREET, WHOLESALE DOUSE, No. 630 MARKET STREET, OFFER OF THEIK OWN M AVUFACrOUE 1 BA DDLEd, 200 styles, 2000 qualities. HAB&E&S Irom 15to 500 per set Mountings, Bridles, U!ts, Wlilps, Blankets, Goaita, Brushes, Kobes, Government Harness Plough Bridles, Hog Collars, radded lljuiios Wood Hnrrups, Travelling Bags, Trunks and Valines, Luucu Baskets, Chamois, B acking, Boots, eto. We call the attention of merchants TislUig this market, also tbe city letail tradc.to our lare, cheap and varied stock. 3 8Smrp LACEY, MEEKER A CO. JJ A R N E S S. A LARGE LOl OF NEW U. 8. WAGOX HAR NESS, 2, i, and 6 home. Also, parts ot HAR NESS, SADDLES, COLLARS, HALTERS eto., bought at the recent Government sales to be sold at a srreat sacrifice Wholesale or Kotail. Tea-ether with our usual assortment ot SA DDLEh YA 3T2 SALT) LER Y BARD WARE. WILLIAM S. HANS ELL & SONS, 3 1$ At. 114 MARKET Street. "yilAT IS THE BEST CURE FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, ETC.? TUEOBAJ.D'S liOOTS, No. 703 CAI.LOW11ILL STIIEKT. II makes the Laxts to suit the Keet, and Boots hoe. etc etc., to tit the feet. THY DIM. 18 16 lin fHO ARCH STREET. OAS FIXTURES, VIA CIUKDELIEKS, BBOKZB STATUARY, Etc VAMKIliK i CO. would respectlully direct tlie atten tion f their rrltnds, and the nubllo general';, to their large and elenart assortment ot (Its KIXTBBhH. HANDEUElta, and ORNAMENTAL ttBOZtt WAKK8. Ihose '.wUUIng uandsome and thoroughly made Goods, at very reasonable prices will Hud It to their advantage to give us aoall beiore surcbaslng else where. V. to. soiled or tarntehed flxtaiee refluished with ipeolal care and at reasonable prloes. M6m YAKKIRK A CO LAND8CAPB DRAWING CARDS, A BEAU tiful seitea 01 views, fifteen In number, desigitad tor the Instruction of Juvenile artists, frloe, 15 oeuta a parasite. ..With the EVENING TELEOUATU. MEVT 10BK. CUPi'EB eto., will be found ou sale at the Wl M MKWH HTAND. t). W. comer 8EYEMTH and CHESNUT BtreetA. Q1Q SOUTH STREET, M. D'ANCONA tJ'k- pays the highest inlce rsr Ladies aad dents' csjit-oU Olotuwg. &i bOUTH bu0( .beluw fount. Utts WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c.
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