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The Sociological Department of Vassar College, under Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon, during the years 1889 and 1890, made an exhaustive study of wages, hours of work, difficulties, advantages, and disadvantages of domestic service. Professor Salmon's book, "Domestic Service," giving the results of the inquiry, is a classic on the subject.
The very few instances of food found in salmon which have been brought forward to support the contrary opinion are in the scientific view to be regarded with great caution; certainly in one case of recent years, which at first appeared to be well authenticated, it was afterwards found that a small trout had been pushed down a salmon's throat after capture by way of a joke.
The current was strong, and beneath its weight Brighteye's body was bent backwards till his fore-paws rested on the salmon's head. Mad with rage and fright, he clawed and bit at the neck of his captor.
"The salmon's got away," said Colin disgustedly. "What does that matter?" said the professor. "We've something else to do." "What?" "Catch your sea-serpent," was the reply, as the older man pointed to the green and scarlet gleam in the water. "It must be thirty feet long," Colin said, then realizing that his tone suggested that he was afraid, he added boldly, "but I'm game. What is it, anyway?"
The wages received are relatively higher than those of other occupations; for in Professor Salmon's comparison of wages received by three thousand country and the same number of city employees it was found that of six thousand teachers in the public schools the average salary actually paid is less than that paid to the average cook in a large city.
It isn't often I get out among ye. Shakee, nephew! Shakee, Hector! And now, who's the boy in the window? My eyes aren't what they used to be, but he don't seem to favour the Westonhaughs overmuch. One of Salmon's four grandchildren, think 'e? Or a shoot from Eustace's gnarled old trunk? His gals all married Americans, and one of them, I've been told, was a yellow-haired giant like this fellow."
What I knew of ancient story was gathered from Salmon's and Guthrie's Geographical Grammars; and the ideas I had formed of modern manners, of literature, and criticism, I got from the Spectator.
"Are you the daughter of this gentleman?" asked Jacob. "You have heard what he called me," she answered, "go and deliver my message." Whilst Jacob was gone, for go he did, at the young girl's bidding, Dymock told Tamar all that had taken place in Mr. Salmon's room, and Tamar confessed her wish to be permitted to speak to the old gentleman herself.
Will you stop at Salmon's and order this bill of groceries sent up to the corral? I'll meet you here at 2.30." Roy walked up Mission Street as far as Salmon's New York Grocery and turned in the order his friend had given him. After he had seen it filled, he strolled along the sunny street toward the plaza. It was one of those warm, somnolent New Mexico days as peaceful as old age.
Hutton's Literary Landmarks in London. Lucas's A Wanderer in London. Shelley's Literary By-Paths in Old England. Baildon's Homes and Haunts of Famous Authors. Bates's From Gretna Green to Land's End. Masson's In the Footsteps of the Poets. Wolfe's A Literary Pilgrimage among the Haunts of Famous British Authors. Salmon's Literary Rambles in the West of England. Winter's Shakespeare's England.
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