Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Why Eve Did Not Keep a Hired Girl. [ARTICLE]

Why Eve Did Not Keep a Hired Girl.

A lady writer famishes some of the reasons why Eve did not keep a hired girl. She says: “There has been a great deal said about the faults of women, and why they need so much waiting on. Some one, (a man of course) has the presumption to ask ‘why,, when Eve was manufactured of a spare-rib, a servant was not made to wait upon her?’ She didn’t need any. Abi ight writer has said, “Adam never came home whinning to Eve with a ragged stocking to be darned, buttons to be sewed on, gloves to be mended right away—quick—new I” Because he never read the newspapers till the sun went down behind the palm tree, and he, stretching himself, yawned out ‘lsn’t supper ready, my dear?’ Not he. He made the fire and hung the kettle over it himself, we’ll venture, and pulled the radishes, peeled the potatoes, and did everything he ought to do. He milked the cows, fed the chickens, looked after the pigs himself, and never brought half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn’t any fresh pomegranates. He never stayed out till 11 o’clock at night, and then scolded because poor Eve was sitt'ng up and crying, inside the gates. He never loafed around the corner groceries while Eve was at home rocking Cain’s cradle. He did not call Eve up from the cellar to get his slippers and put them in the corner where he had left them. Not he. When he took them off he put them under the fig tree beside his Sunday boots. In short, he did not think she was especially created to wait on him, and wasn’t under the impression that it degraded a man to lighten a wife’s cares a little. That’s the reason Eve did not need a hired girl, and with it was the reason her descendants did.”