A BARMAID'S DUTIES.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3210, 3 June 1879, Page 2

A BARMAID'S DUTIES.

"Atlicus" ia t'ae Lender,, writes:— "Some one has compressed 1 the'wh^e ' duty of man into an, essay^ which I think few people read. One. of the latest literary productions on a like subject comes from a publican in want of a Hebe, ' and may appropriately be called ' The Whole Duty of a Barmaid.',, The following are (he conditions which* he ■ imposes by letter, and which he expacti J the applicant for the, situation to agraa to: ' You would be required to hire the bar open ewevy moraing, winter and summer, by a quarter to sit o'clock; * Oik H course you shut up at twelve, bat will be required to remain m attendance until the house is closed, when you can retire for the night. Mrs M. and myaelC . generally go out a couple of ereningt - through the week, on ■ which occasions - t you will hare to ait up until we return* • Uut you must clearly understand that no matter how late you may hare 1 to re^ 1 m«m up you must always hare the btr! * open on the folloyrng morning by the ' time already mentioned. Once a month r a ball takes olace in my house, and after you hare closed the doors you matt. " remain in attend auce on the ladies daring - the night. As the company separates a r . little before 5 a.m. you must hare the bar open before they leare, as' a little money is generally spent before parting takes place. Mrs M. and i then retire to bed for some hours, so that you will hare to be at business that day as usual. /' For this extra work I will gire you £1 f > for yourself. I would also mention that your time for breakfast will be about 9 a.m., when Mrs M. comes into the bar, and you wiU be allowed a quarter of an bob r for breakfast, the;- game* for 'dinner,":

and ten minutes for tea. Mrs M. never

permits hor barmaids to absent them* selves on Sundays, no that you would have to be at hand, whether required or iiot. The wages are commensurate with the work; are also what a barmaid seldom gets, v»>r.4s » W,e9^- #■■*?£■ W*», at the end of three months I will five yoi an additional 2a 6d; and, if you continue

active, at the end of anotherthree monthi , your wages'will be increased-^£2'ssi* f The eight hours' movement evidently does not find favour with^ this philan-. thropio bbnifa^ce', "and all we read about^ hard worked governesses and sempstresiei fades into insignificance when compared with the duties of a barjnaidY" $f- '•£■* >(| {^ *>

We were muck edified at noon to-day, by a visit to the yard at ther'reafof the'; Government Buildings. On entering, the first tbiug we observed wan two Govern-. ment offici?ls throwing pennies tit a small peg stuck up in the ground—not pitch and toss, you know; only coppers. We, were invited to try our hand, and were speedily minus all our available funds, i.e., 3d. We then amused ourself by looking at the, somewhat novel competition between a Government functionary and a reporter on the staff of our morning contemporary. They were trying who could "ciimb't'he/ highest on a tall painter's ladder. Both gentlemen desenre great oredit for the excellence of the perforntatt^the various incidental feats, such as standing on the ladder, duly lidding'oii withonenandibeiaij performed with great grace and nerve. Who would notbeaGoveinment servant I We must not forget to mention that the Government official damaged his Sunday .j pants Ly coming in contact with a freshly painted wall. We would not hare written this enly we feel annoyed at losing the 3d. The whole family has gone to the circus, where the lovely MdHe- Azucena Farina (nee Bloggs) was doing afl/ing trapeza act with more daring than drapery. |Mf I had thought," said pater familias, indigh&ntly scanning the nymph with his glass, "If I had .thought there were gbing to be such shameless carryings-on I'd not have let the children come." " If I had thought," said mater fomUias - to herself, " that there were Koing to be l such shameless carryings-on I'd not hare . let the old man come."

These has been a separation between . an uptown lover and his sweetheart. She presented him with her photograph, i which he, on his bended knees, swore he would always wear next ti his heart. While making his last Sunday evening ; call, he pulled out his handkerchief from . his batik pants pocket, when 16! the-"' photograph fell at his lady's feet. She- . says he is either a liar or else his heart i» not in the right place.—Exchange.

Mns Beitten, in a lottor to the EJitor of the Morning Herald, Dunedin, gives the following quotation from a lccluro given by her in Melbourne, and which are the riews still held by her:—" I protest against the unfair practice of our onemies in pretending to illustrate the doctrives of this new faith by the practises of many of those who crowd iuto the ranks and register themselves Spiritualists, simply because they believe in its phenomena. Spiritualism is no more represented by the heterogeneous masses of Spiritualists, than Christianity can be judged of by the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the records of the Inquisition, or the practical piety of the Glasgow Bank Directors." ... "There are three well mnrked classes amongst the believers in Spiritism. The first are those who merely accept its phenomena, pnd go no farther than yielding belief in the sensuous facts which'prove that spirits communicate. The next are the vicious, tho licentious, and the unstable, who, from the testimony of their senses, may readily believe in the truth of; spirit communion, yet who use it, aa they have Christianity heretofore, "to cover a multitude of sins," and by its lack of credal restraint find in it a fresh excuse for their licentious proclivities. The third olnss includes the thousands and tens of thoutands of noble men and women who apply its pure and holy .doctrines, and acknowledge, as I do that ne^one can be a true, Spiritualist without becoming a better man or woman."