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9 fT TAT TGT7C7T TD a x jtw t r? a r-nrr t t onnATT rr rrT r? a THE SUN, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1012. Latest Cause of Trouble in Households Employing Large Staffs of Domestics-Few Family Retainers of Old Kind Left-"Lady Help" a London Institution Nowadays T! unnn ls trouble In the servants' I. all of n Mr household uptown. Th.' whole outfit, except the par- .ir maw, lion walked out. ault ik "'ut'ly. nnd thcro In no chance of ((( ne n settlement. They JuhI simply tven ' r uno back. The question of wages Is not Involved. r.wr.Uindy from the butler down to the rnnd assistant scullery maid was well pnld Mich got out on an average three nlcht.x n week, and If you had the ear (if Mr 'Obson. tho butler, why, you could pi out in bury a stepmother or see a fltk cousin on the fourth, or the fifth, rr even the sixth night. Mr. 'Obson vssn't "tryln to bo ard on hanybody," nnd he would Just Buy: "Ilun along, and have n pood time: only look fresh mi' ORCHESTRA CHAIRS THE nice when the missis 'appens to be around In the morning." In till establishment there wasn't sny office on the domestic staff directly mrrosiiondlng to housekeeper, lfobson was n sort of majordomo. and the mls tr"?s left to him all thedetnlls of engag ing tho servants, with the exception of her own personal milld. and even in that matter Hobson's wishes had due weight. Authority being thus centred, ever thine ran along as If on ball bear lncs. Itut even to such machinery a rraln of dust may be troublesome, and !n this ense the grain of dust blew n'mg. The result was that cogs slipped j f r.d In a brief time the splendid house- I ho'd machinery was nil out of gear. This particular grain of dust was the chauffeur attached to the household. TV word "attached" Ls used advisedly. I'rause a chauffeur Is not a part of a I. .usehold. Sometimes he may take his inals In the servants' hall, but not as a pneral rule. He may sleep in the rurage, If the master of tho household 1 is a private establishment of tho kind, i t ponerally speaking, the chauffeur ls 1 aid so much a month and ls supposed t i find himself. He ls therefore not a FTvnnt In the sense that the valet or f en th butler Is, and the servants' hall r-corntz's the subtle distinction. It mils him "Mister" Just ns It does the b itler. hut there la a difference. Ho Is the link with tho (treat world pitIde that la beyond class distinction, st lonst from the viewpoint of the ser vants' hall. True, a butler may gradu nto into the mannger of a restaurant, I it then everybody will remember he was once a butler; but a chauffeur who knows but that in a year or two t imo wealthy man will back him with onouch money to atart a garage of his own? And soon afterward he may get i fow touring cars to hire out, and then oi'hor start a new taxlcnb service and niko a fortune or become an automo t ' manufacturer on his own account, end everybody will forget that he ever ('roe a car for a living. Such a thing l.as happened. Enter a New Chauffeur. It used to be the case that the women rants In a big household would set t i'tr raps at the butler, if he happened t . t o young nnd hnndsome, or perhaps ' second man, because tho butler usu r i has a wife and numerous offspring. " were his guarantee of respecta 1 "j With the coming of the chauffeur 0 this changed. A butler was a but lor nffr all, and a second man could on y bemmn a butler. The majority of Ffrvants In nn American household ! frequently apologetic on the score ' ''irlr employment. Ti ,is It wn.i that when the mastor 'Mo house discharged bis foreign n'lffeur nnd got a now one, a clean kn on young American, tho news h on, through the servants' holl. C'i-h the now man drove the car f .nil to the door for the master the ' ' Um the habement windows were ' I nnd thcro were the heads of ' ml riimtds nnd tho parlor mnld nnd V ' iiMri-ss's personal maid peeping out f o ipstatrs. II was a good looking fellow, the f i Mr; tall, smooth faced, active and "o ' ro j,octlng. He had to smile when 1 o . Die heads at tho lower windows. ,n he came around at 11 to take tho '' if the house out shopping the at 'fi'l'in paid him was embarrassing. In t rn.. became acquainted with the ehuid stnff, and then of course there wore My hints as to Invitations for rides In the iar, some of which carried. 'Die maids vied with one another In I rlnklng up for him. Home of the men i"-rants noticed it and having their own preferences became Jealoua. The hu'ler was married, so the Jealousy was rnnflned to tho second, third and fourth inn. The cork, though a widow, wa young. I' the chauffeur had been wise In hla Deration he would have understood that he could have taken his pick from n cluster of willing I'eggottys com posed of the cook, tho three young women who assisted her In the kitchen and scullery, the lnundrcss, tho under Inundress, the parlor tnald, two cham bermaids, tho mistress's own maid nnd the two nurses. Once In n while, it would happen that ho would havo to take a meal In tho servants' dining room nnd then It was difficult to keep any of the mntds upstairs. With what ever attentions the favorite bestowed, however, ho was impartial, extending unites to nil. It so happened that the parlor mold become 111 and her -place was taken by a reully pretty young woman, who Immediately became an object of bus- PEACE OFFERING. plclon. though she went out of her wny to convince the other women that she. was not setting her cap at the chauf feur. The second, third mid fourth men Immediately transferred their alle giance to her, but this did not tend to HE NEVER GOT UP WHEN THE DINOSAUR TRAMPED THE HILLS Nkw Havkn, April 27. Prof. Itlchnrd S. Lull, head of tho department of verte brate palaeontology at Vale, presents In the current number of tho American ,ournaf c Stirrer a pen picture of the Connecticut Valley (luring prehistoric times when dinosaurs tramped tho hills and strange reptiles moved about. He says; Ono of tho most remarkable features of the fossil remains of tho Connecticut , Valley is tlm dearth or actual bones and bodies or water or considerable oxtent; wero conditions rli for the formation of tho marvellous abundance of footprints ' of oeahonnlly, if not continually, (lowing I beds of coal such as aro found in the Xew Tho prof usion of species of animals repro-, rivers; and of extensive land areas with ark strata from Virginia outliward. sontod by tho tracks, which, ot course, Inoluueu mo creniures urn eiieieums oi which uro known, is, so rar ns my present knowledge goes, a great u not greater than that of any other known vertebrate fauna of prehistoric times, and emplm-1 sizes onco moro tho usual incompleteness of our geologio record and the counties? multitudes of creatures which peopled our globo In the moro remoto ages. "Tho Connecticut Valley area, extend ins as it does across the States of Massa chusetts and Connecticut, follows in general the depression now occupied by the Coiiumcuoui iiivor, nxoept lis lower course, where tho river forsakes the ancient valley at Mtddletown and out Its way through the eastern high lands, reaching tho Sound far to tho eastward. The story of the Connecticut Valley, as the evidence at hand reveals It, may be summarized as follows: Jar back In the remote Triain period, when the age of reptiles was yet young, I there were Uld down In a gradually deep- better things. The chauffeur noticed her one morning nnd beenmo n marry ing man. Kvcnts showed sho was will ing. The engagement was announced. Forthwith tho cook, tho three kitchen and scullery maids, tho laun dress nnd her assistant, the two cham bermaids, the lady's mnld nnd tho two nurses announced they were not working after tho end of the month. Tho three under men, their romance gone, followed suit, and the butler, disconcerted at the completo disorgan ization of his staff and dismayed at the task of getting together a completely new stnff, gave notice; so that only tho parlor maid was left. Butlers in Demand. Ilut handsome chauffeurs are only one of the many things that arise to disrupt the big household in New York nowadays. The incident recorded is hardly characteristic, but the problem of how to keep together an efficient staff of household servants In New York has reached a stago that the Jokes of a few years back In the comic papers only approached. Take the case of the butler, for In stance. It Is very hard nowadays to get one of tho standard English kind, a trained family servant, discreet, who knows his place and who can manage those under htm. When such a man quits one place he soon gets another. Only a few weeks ago the wife of a wealthy New Yorker discharged her butler because he had been Impertinent. Having been in the service of the family many years, he ventured upon a liberty he should not have taken. The wife of an equally wealthy citizen heard that the butler was unemployed. She made inquiries nnd found that a certain freedom of manner was the only complaint against him. She Immedi ately sent the butler a telegram. "He Is too good a pcrvant to let slip." she said. "I have had so many of the other kind that I simply feel I could put up with a little Impertinence If the man Is satisfactory in other re spects." In very few of the big households in Now York nowadays Is there a servant who comes under the class of old fam ily retainer, nnd n cry Is going up from mistresses of big establishments that no matter what you do In the way UNTIL EIGHT O'CLOCK. eninK trough in tho older roeks the great accumulations of gravels winds nnd, clays, interlieddded with vast lava i-iieets which constitutH the sediments of thu Newurk syMetn The oriRin of tho Kedl incut was the wasting of the older rocks which formed tho limiting highlands ot either side of the depression; nnd tho or gaiiic remains, all of fresh water or ter- ri'strinl origin, testify to tho presence from timo to timo at leaKt, of standing i ,Hiowiy drying iH-opii i niter inn mrr- .mui - ih, nm im n-m uti Pii,i.-i n liimiuuivi i. , i arm to seiiii-urm regions oi ino pros- , ent day I "Tim vegetation born the mark of antiq uity in its monotonous, sombre green i ror brilliantly colored flowering plant had not yet aponrcd, and apparently hero was that sparsonojs and lack of pro fusion, except looully .which clmracteris'OB our great Southwest Tho plants were three main sorfu: ferns, oyoads and coni fers, looked iiHin by ousting animal lifo us undesirable food, but which for utter want of u better must have tempted some of tho donitms of Triiu-sio time, for we havo evldenoo of mild mannered herbi vores among the ruicious devourers of flesh, "Of tlm organic remains, those of vege-1 table origin eoncist or the impressions and com of tho trunks of trees, some of the latter found at Portland, Conn,, he-1 log of such sie as to Indicate a stream of no uiuau trunsH)rting iower; and of the (IK? of wages, of making thetr quarters com fortable, or consenting to a large num ber of nights out, a year is getting to be a long time for servants to remain In one employ. Both men and women get restless, tho women to a greater extent than the men. None seems to cherish the Idea of being a servant all her days. The woman servant hns grown fond of jchange and she likes to go from household to household. She calls it seeing the world. She likes to make new acquaintances and some women servants have the notion that In en larging their circle of acquaintances they are increasing their chances of getting a husband. Some of the tin travelled like to attach themselves in the spring to a household that ls going over to summer In Europe, though the more experienced say there Is nothing in travelling for a servant, nnd will give notice If their mistress drops a hint that she Is nbout to take them over to Europe with her. The old Joke about deferring to the cook and turning the whole house up side down to keep her Is often nowndays more fact than fiction nnd there Is many a case In New York In which the mis tress of n household spends much time In devising ways to keep her amused, even to the extent of frequently buying theatre tickets for her. And mind you. nothing short of orchestra seats Is pop-1 uiar in the scrvnnts' hall either. One employer tells of a chambermaid who gets disgruntled nt least once a week, nnd It always tokes a couple of orches- tra chairs to bring her around to n good humor. Of course, marriage Is frequently A potent argument for n serving maid's quitting. Often the mistress is puzzled by her maid's making a match which does not seem to promise well. There Is a woman who lives n Miort distance from New York nnd who hns been In the habit of passing her winters In Home, Italy. For years she had n maid, n superior woman, to whom she had grown much attached. The. mnld was a Catholic, and In Home she had met more notable personages In the church than her mistress, n Protestant, could hope to become acquainted with. She had even been one of a group that had an audience with the Tope himself. Her mistress felt she could not hope always to keep her. but expected that she would either get a superior place In service somewhere, or else marry well, as her education and her training had opened up possibilities in that direc tion. Three weeks after they returned rrom Europe the last time the maid was married to the stable boy. Never theless she retired from service. There Is a woman uptown who for several years has rejoiced In n perfect English mnld. Ilecently the mistress decided that her second man was not up to his Job, and discharged him. That same day the mnld announced she was leaving. Inquiry revealed that she had taken umbrage at the dismissal of the second man, She was In love with him, Many women blame the Intelligence office for the Increasing difficulty In keeping servants. There Is no question that the oftener n servant chnnges mis tresses, the more money the keeper of imprcssioni of leaves, twig nnd fruits, occasionally containing a delicate film of carbon which preserves the most in trieato detail with wonderful fidelity "Hero nnd them the vegetable remains were of suOleient abundance to influence the production of black bituminous shale bunds of iki to ion fP(;t in thick ms. formed during periods of the nccuniulat'on of waters which supKrted a teeming pqpu- lation of iishes' but novijr within t his area "Anlmato life left IIh record rurely in tno form or shells or bones, but in mar vellous abundance in trails and foot prints, some of such clarity of meaning that ho who runs may read; others of more difficult and quehtionuhlo interpre tation, yet others cxnsierating in their baffling obscurity, "Vertebrates and invertebrates aro thus represented Of tlio latter the actual fossils are impressions of at least two species of shells, allied to the modern fresh water Untos, a small crustneeau, and a single iiquntiu Insect siecies, the last occurring In profusion of numbers and licuriug the unique distinction of being the eldest true insect larva known, The fishes, nil or tho old fashioned i armored sort, have been alluded to us occurring in abundance from time, to tlm,. n tho black elialo bunds, representing I lake tleKisits with a luxuriant growth of plants plants "The terrestrial vertebrate skeletons are all reptilian remains, three those of 1 k If I THE NEW CHAUFFEUR ARRIVES. the intelligence bureau makes, and the maid servant feels that no matter how many places she loses or gives up, the bureau will soon provide her with an other. One has only to talk with mis tresses of households to find that they feel very keenly on the subject of the Intelligence office, and some say they apply to such a bureau only as a last resort. Often the applicant for a place falls far short of the recommendation furnished her. A well known woman who has a big house uptown had occasion to consult the hend of an agency that ls supposed to furnish only first class servants. She wanted a lady's maid, she told the manager over the telephone, and he fissured her he bnd Just the servant she wished. Later In the day an Eng- 1 PEL! AN IMPORTATION. llsh woman appeared. The lady of the house asked her several questions, and decided she would not suit. "I can come on Monday," announced the applicant. "Flut I have not engaged you," re plied the lady of the house. "I must make some Inquiries, nnd I wish to talk with the head of the bureau before en gaging anybody." The applicant left the room, presum ably to depart from the house. A little later the butler oppeared. "Did you engage that young woman, mum?" he Inquired. "Certainly not. Why do you ask?" "Well, mum, she camo downstairs nnd said ns how you had engaged her and OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY v 1 I phytot-aurs, remotely related to living crocodiles, nnd in one instance nt least economically equivalent to tho fish eating gavials of tho far Kust Tho others are all dinosaurs of averugo sbo and repre sentative kinds, neither tho largeet nor thu inoht sieclalized which lived during tho time of winch we sieak being known to us, "Unfortunately, too, tho dinosaurian skeletons wero thoso of contemporaries and therefore in themselves throw no direct light upon evolutionary history. Of the five, species four aro so nearly iiisioiy, related list., bo of.. no family and thre.M.r'"",,lV, V , ' ,', , "ml one genus whllo tho other represents a "'T"' f"r 'I'"1 "UI"' ,''""i"K ""l "'" ' different r.ic... which in iu ultiinateicul. I '"! Prol"r'K '" ""'go for newer and! initiation was far aiwrt from tho lm-oho for which the others stood, though all wero sanguinary dovonrcM of flesh "The footprints represent two, ossilily three, great classes of torrential beings, amphibia of snlamamlrinn form wero perhajw prc-ent, and doubtless represen tatives of tho moro urchaio urmorod i.tegocepli.ilians as well, though ono can not indicate tho track of either with assurance Of thu reptiles the possibili ties of timo and place would indioute linrds, turtles and dinosaurs among the morn familiar forms, and these un questionably were represented in the .' inuna anil nmoni; mono less Known tho Ithynochocuphulia, phytosaurs, aetosaurs, and theromorplm are within the possl- bllities "Whether or not birds wore present is still a mooted question. The only final proof of ,hee.ls.encoof Triage bird, will mnde herself so much at home that I got suspicious and showed her out." The ludy Immediately called up tho Intelligence ofllce. The manager wan shocked to learn that one of IiIh clients could have acted In such a manner. He Bald ha would simply have to cross her off his books. On the following Monday the woman appeared again lit the door of the house nnd nnnnumvd that she had como to tnUe her place. She was detained In the vestibule while word was sent up to the lady of the house. Wcrd came down that sho should on no nccount be admitted. Then the woman banged on tho door nnd made a scene. Troubles of Commuters. At the same time, In spite of the present characteristics of domestics as a class, once In a while you do hear of women who have grown gray In ser vice. A friend called on nn elderly wealthy womun the other day' nnd was shown to her private fitting room, where rhe ;ound two old women, strangers to lur, who were trying hard to put the room in perfect shape. "They nre two old maids of mine," explained the hostess later. ".My own maid ls 111 nnd f rlon't lll.n 1 ri irnt n stranger, so as I have l.een l:eelnL- th ,... ., . , . .wucneau iiimiiy took a swagger apart- wo on pension for some years I ealllm,m lu ,.urk lall(. T)l0 do.nestlc prob both In upon such an occasion to do Mom won led tho mistress of tho aparl the work." I ment liinii tho Mturt nnd twice sho had filters for the comic papers linvlto discharge her entire Htutf of ner made much money out of the dllMeulty I vants. Then she acquired u butler who . . ' had been recommended highly by an lie the netjual discovery of their remains, "Geologically the history or Newark limes was a tremendous dr.imt of which the prologue hpenUs or tho degradation or tho ancient hills and Dm setting of the stngo in the form of an extensive though relatively flight depression, with the establishment of the sediment lieni-im- drainage rrom tho environing upland. Four great acts of which tho first and tho last were much tho longest succeed each other in time, hopa rated by interacts of , ,,, , . 'V,m,K rM,Vtr.' .W""V H,".,,,s hoots ot ul,le" ' P'ajers. "of sequence of tho scenes within tho nets tho order is nol Hosiiivly iccordod, since they dill'ored in their position In t lit valley, in tho natiiio of tlm sediment in which their record is wiittcu and in tho forms that peopled the singe. Tho wliolo (Iraiim is incredibly long as wo incisure .one, mi iMvu micceeiuug o.iy with ns dawning, morning hours, high noon, de clining sun and long night added Itut, tho smallest increment to the gradually ac- ciimuiuiiug sediment, inoiign, im has been wild. WVilhor timo nor .spaco Hows'" evenlv.' nnd then, worn uwiimnu ,1..... I .u-..: .....' .'(Up tno new cult again nnd tr ed to ; ni'' loiiiunuinm m inn mass main, up ; tor tho e.tlm pnssago of thoso to follow, i yt when ono thinks or tho two mid one - i hair miles oT accumulations whit h lhcsn days represent ho can r.vblv grasp at tho , realization of thu cMout of Nywar,.' j Mm- of getting scrvnnts to go into the coun try, nnd nlmost any commuter of ex perience could furnish testimony on the Mibjuct. For a family to finish out n summer with the same two servants In the kitchen Is rare. There Is n man out Greenwich wny who thought he would solve the (piettlon by getting a raw Immigrant Just landed nt Ellis Island. He got her nt ono of tho Immigrant homes. Her name was HIIJa; she was n Finn and she knew no Engllnh. Th" commuter considerately carried her bag to the subway and braveri curious glancer all the way home. HJIJa neg.m Her career In tho country by eat ing a dog biscuit nnd subsequently complaining of Its effects. The next day .'die had n toothache, nnd It took her half n day to find a dentist to rid her of the offending molar. Tho whole family turned in nnd made her com fortable for the rest of the day. HIIJa did nothing more for two days. Then going downstairs one morning early the lady of the house found HIIJa dresseil up nnd poring over a time table. "Missy," she said; "me New York," nnd nothing could stop her. She went Americans who havn never lived in England may fancy the servant ques tion Is simpler over there. It may be. but not for Americans, unlesj you nre -o fortunate n.s was n certain tourist one recent summer who took n house nnd two servnnts In London for the sum mer nt a week for the lot. and wa. so pleased with the servants, a map and his wife, that he doubled the pne they were receiving from the original lessen of the house. More travellers are npt to fare after the fashion of the American woman who took a beautiful apartment In South Kensington nnd within ten weeks had to discharge eight "highly recommended" general house workers nnd hou--malds nnd cooks. In competence wns the general fault, nnd' whnt made tho situation worse wns that tlm work- of each servant had to be" strictly defined. Tho cook would not budge from her particular domain, even so far n.s to remove dishes from the dining room table, nnd the maid oblect- Ing to this a row would result, followed I by one or more discharges, until finally n woman was hired because sho said , sho preferred to do the whole work of the apartment nlone. Within a week i no nnrary nail accumulated a thick coating of London smoke. "I am not a chnrwomun!" Indlgnantlv replied the general houscworker when the matter was called to her attention, and sho "went." "Lady Help" in London. One peculla. Institution you find In London nowadays Is the "lady help," a byproduct of tho servant problem. The rccoKUltlon of the "lady help" as au iiislliuiion allows a womuit who is noi titled lor anything else to do menial wot n ultli a ftomuunco of gentility. Howevel, tho Intt'itMj anxiety of the mistress oi tho Iioumj to uvolu wounuini; the sus cepliolutlos of tho "lady help" by aK Iuk her to do work bcuvuth her ulgiuij iiequently results In thu lonnur'a uoiua iiio.si ot tno (irudKcry herself. Ah lu New York tho incompetence of senatilM in Kenerul Is responsible in London for driving people into hotels as ' 1.""lvs ol. One wealthy agency, nnu uim was guaranteed to service In tho household of the Earl of miih-iiis-name, Tho woman wns accustomed to rise early nnd to breakfust at 8 o'clock nil unearthly hour, be It said, In Lon don. For several mornings ufter the acquisition or Jevms breakfust was late, and going downstairs, ono day ut her usual breaklnsi hour she found tho slt- I ting room lu the state It had been left the night before. Jeems was called and till explanation demanded. "Jteally mum." he replied, grace fully concealing a yawn behind his palm, "you cnwnt expect me to get up l helol-o .s ii cl.ieu " Me was cautioned, hut he wouldn't !' '.'r. nnd then finally ho was "''' one of the most prominent hostesses In .New i uric society had for six years ii mam wno ni the outset wns re garded as a model of her kind. For the lust the her duties wero done well and oh fully. Then In the sixth tho maid fell under the Influence of a cult headed by ,i Hindoo Swntnl and started In to Ullllllll'nt.t l,n,. l.ortv. In hi. unMl rm.t.. involved, among other things, getting up nt unearthly hours and taking lon walks and Kolng without food for Ion periods. The result was to Incapacitate her for work and Ilnnlly she fell 111, There was "'rlnllH l'"'-ntlon, for which her mis- ' ,,HB I"""' " "p " l "'ell she took pneiyto not only the other servants . hut even her mlstret. Then she was 1 dlsehnrncd. She hud pevornl places nftcr that, but each she lost hocnusn" of her religion. Finally the wont hack ""'' ' hutch of her fathers, but by j J wcTit C tauJSoK