Why Eve Did'nt Keep Servants

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 76, 29 November 1883, Page 3

Why Eve Did'nt Keep Servants

- •*• There has been a great deal said about the faults of woman, and they need so much waitin_ on. tome one (a man oi course/ has the presumption to as*k — " Why, when tve was manufactured;^ a spare rib, a servant wa.' not made to wait upon her Y' he didn't need any. A bright writer has said, a dam never came whii.iug to l_ve with a nigged stocking to be darned, buttons to be s-'ived o: , gh ves to be mended " rij: lit away - quick — now !" Because he never re id the newspapers till the sun went down behind the palm trees, and he, stretching hira.elf, yawned out, " I-^n't supper ready, my dear ?" Not he. He made the fire and hung the kettle over it himself, we'll venture, end pulled the radishes, peeled the potatoes, and did every thing else he ought to do He milked the cows, ff d the chickens, and looked after the pigs himself, and never brought halt a dozen trends to dinner when l'-ve hadn't any fresh pomegranates. He never stayed out '.ill 11 o'clock at night, and th-n scold, d because poor Eve was sitting up and crviur inside the t«ates. He never oafed around the corner gr**c'*ries, while i ve was at home rocking little Cain 6 cradle. He did not call I've up from the cellar to get his slippers and put them iu the corner where he lett tbem. Not he. When betook them off he put them under the fig tree beside his Sunday boots. In short, he did not think she was especially creat d to wait on him. and he wasn't under the impression that it degraded a man who lightened a wile's cares a little. That's the reason Eve did not need a hir^d L-irl, and with it was the reason his decendants did.