Vermont Phœnix

Ladies In The Kitchens.—There is a movement making for a stampede, for freedom from slavery to domestics. A writer in the Perth Amboy Journal recommends that lady housekeepers make "a strike," or, if that cannot be done, that the young ladies of a family be less dependent on servant labor. Moore's Rural New Yorker, commenting on this, says :

In Germany, where, certainly, intellect and literary acquirements are pre-eminent, the ladies, even among the noble, spend the early part of each day in their kitchens, which are fitted up with the most scrupulous order and elegance, so that they can allow a friend to see them so occupied. In France, every lady understands the mysteries of the cuisine, and with a small furnace filled with charcoal, a frying pan and a skillet, will perform miracles of cooking.

In England, the servants are kept for years : a good servant considers her interest identified with that of the family with whom she resides, and seldom changes. This promotes an attachment between them, which is frequently preserved for generations, and the families of the same domestics will, for successive generations, live with the same families. How is it with the United States? The young ladies are most generally brought up with no culture. Their habits are indolent, as regards bodily exertion, and they think making any exertion degrading. This being the case, they are thrown completely in the power of a class who are at once promoted to the office of regulators and arbiters at home.