l;
"but they did n't know everything down in Judee," and it is not good
American language. She says that these people would live in the same
household until they were married, and the women often remain in the same
service until they died or were old and worn out, and then, what with the
money they had saved and the care and assistance they got from their
former employers, would pass a decent and comfortable old age, and be
buried in the family lot. Mother has made up her mind to the change, but
grandmother is bitter about it. She says there never was a country yet
where the population was made up of "ladies" and "gentlemen," and she
does n't believe there can be; nor that putting a spread eagle on a
copper makes a gold dollar of it. She is a pessimist after her own
fashion. She thinks all sentiment is dying out of our people. No
loyalty for the sovereign, the king-post of the political edifice, she
says; no deep attachment between employer and employed; no reverence of
the humbler members of a household for its heads; and to make sure of
continued corruption and misery, what she calls "universal suffrage"
emptying all the sewers into the great aqueduct we all must drink from.
"Universal suffrage!" I suppose we women don't belong to the universe!
Wait until we get a chance at the ballot-box, I tell grandma, and see if
we don't wash out the sewers before they reach the aqueduct! But my pen
has run away with men I was thinking of Paolo, and what a pleasant thing
it is to have one of those child-like, warm-hearted, attachable,
cheerful, contented, humble, faithful, companionable, but never presuming
grownup children of the South waiting on one, as if everything he could
do for one was a pleasure, and carrying a look of content in his face
which makes every one who meets him happier for a glimpse of his
features.

It does seem a shame that the charming relation of master and servant,
intelligent authority and cheerful obedience, mutual interest in each
other's welfare, thankful recognition of all the advantages which belong
to domestic service in the better class of families, should be almost
wholly confined to aliens and their immediate descendants. Why should
Hannah think herself so much better than Bridget? When they meet at the
polls together, as they will before long, they will begin to feel more of
an equality than is recognized at present. The native female turns her
nose up at the idea of "living out;" does she thin