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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 85, 12 December 1874, Page 14

Sttoekt Servants. — One of the most interesting novelties to be observed at the White Mountains is the practice lately introduced of employing students and teachers, male and female, as servants at the summer hotels in those romantic regions. The " hot season" ib the period of vacation for literary seminaries of all classes, and many of those released from their books on those occasions, in New England, find profitable situations, agreeable recreation, aud a good opportunity to observe and study " the natural man and woman " by occupying situations as table waiters. This is wise aud commendable. They are deterred by no false pride of availing themselves of so advantageous an opportunity of earning money, recuperate their energies, and increase their worldly knowledge. The manner in which they discharge their duties, assiduity, and intelligence, is one of the prominent attractions of the mountain houses, and one cannot receive attention at their willing hands without appreciating the laudable motive which inspires them in accepting labor that inferior natures would spurn as beneath them. These young scholars exult in doing whatever is proper to enable them to acquire an education that shall make them the peers of the highest among their countrymen, and open to them a path to the loftiest eminence in literary, scientific, and political life. At the Glen House are some 25 under-graduates from Bates College, in Maine, the institution so generously endowed by our liberal and greatly esteemed fellow-citizen, whose honoured name it bears. Among them are youths of the brightest intellects in the country. They are mostly sons of farmers aud mechanics, with small pecuniary resources, wlio are resolved to acquire an education by their own exertions, without embarrassing their friends. In winter for eight or ten weeks they frequently teach in village schools ; in haying time they lend a hand to " the old folks " at home, or seek more remunerative occupation. Thus they toil then* way through college by personal effort, with an independent spirit that generates self-reliance and confidence, and disciplines mind, and body for rough but successful contest with the world. A gentleman observing these «' waiters " at their base ball game iv front of the G-len House, after eervice, remarked that " some of the guests who receive their coffee and steak from these young men will apply to them as future Governor or President for appointment, and claim favourable consideration from the fact that, when they left the hotel many years before, they jpve the ' waiter r a dollar or two."— -' Boston Post.'