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Show HELP POR THE HOME. (Written for Intermountain Catholic by Bessie M. Lawlnr.) One of the most perplexing questions ques-tions before the housewives of today is the all-important subject of how to secure se-cure assistance with their housewifely duties. It is becoming impossible to procure help under any consideration. and thus the mother and wife finds it practically impossible to attend to all the duties which a well-regulated household inflicts upon the one in charge or atlhe helm. There seems to be something wrong somewhere or some misplaced confidence on the part of the girls who a few years ago were plenty and willing to take employment in good families at fair wages. Girls must be seeking-more lucrative employment and branching out in other avenues of labor, for surely it is not scarcity in number which makes their procurance a probability. The question is being openly discussed on both sides that of misitress and maid, and many points brought out which it might not be amiss to repeat. In the. first place, the mistress relates the hardships of going to the different bureaus bu-reaus of employment trying to find a girl who will be willing and competent compe-tent to perform the duties required of her. She has made all arrangements satisfactory on both sides and set the day for her to come and begin her labors. la-bors. The day arrives and hour after hour the weary mother watches in vain for the faithful promising one who never puts in an appearance or even sends word saying she has cancelled can-celled her engagement. Is that a fit way to start in or treat any one? How long would a business man's interests last planted on such a foundation? Lack of principle is to be deeply regretted re-gretted on the one hand, and possibly lack of courtesy on the other. It is the little things that put together to-gether make up the sum of human character, and if one has not honor and principle in small things, how can he expect to have them in great things, or where dependence on his integrity is a sacred trust. Competent, reliable help in the home is in steady demand. A cry goes up at all times for good, faithful, honest dispensers of the home cares and anxieties: to relieve the over-burdened mother, whose daily rounds of ceaseless -toil makes life hardly worth living, when she has to be on her feet from early morning until un-til late in the night after every little golden head has been snugly tucked in bed and has been hours in dreamland. How is this perplexing question going to be settled? Help in the home must be secured, but in what way? Every inducement is held out by those needing need-ing help large wages, good homes, steady employment, but all to no purpose. pur-pose. Girls who are fortunate enough to get into good families are well treated treat-ed and greatly considered where they prove themselves adequate and worthy, oftentimes a mutual attach- A DELIGHTFULLY NOVEL SLEEVE. ment springs up between them and mebers of the household, thus riveting bonds of everlasting friendship on both sides. The girl employed in household duties has many advantages over the girl plowing her way along in a business busi-ness career. She has the protection of a home and is shielded and guarded frpm many temptations which the girl in active business life is exposed to. She can also save more money, have more time to improve herself mentally and a great deal more time for physical physi-cal rest. The time does not seem far distant when it will be at the cost of a great sacrifice that any kind of heip can be procured and retained. There are ways plenty of good, kind mistresses, willing and anxious to treat a good gdrl as she deserves, if they can only place trust and confidence in her. Once confidence con-fidence is restored in the heart of the employer then "all will go merry as a marriage bell." The girl has her side which she is prone to discuss at length to anyone who will take interest and listen' .to her. Her side is just as important as that of the mistress, and she should receive re-ceive a fair and unbiased hearing before be-fore she is unjustly condemned. Very often a kind, faithful girl has been in-the in-the employment of a harsh, unthinking unthink-ing and unappreciative mistress, who never thinks for a moment of the rights and needs of her employee, and just as soon as she asserts herself in a rightful manner she is deemed un-' worthy of the position she fills. No matter what the station or position posi-tion in life, we are all children of the one Heavenly Father, who rules and governs all. The same human emotions sway me heart of the rich as well as the poor. All mankind being so closely akin, all naturally have the same feelings to some extent, and there is one thing certain, the only way to restore confidence confi-dence is to nurture it and bring out whatever is good in the human heart. The best and most noble way to do j this is to encourage true principle and hortoT in all things. The surest and bePt way to succeed is to. cultivate self-respect and esteen, then you will have a broad and 'Solid foundation for the building of a good character and one which will enlighten the possessor to a-true sense of duty and respect for those in superiority. No matter whait occupation falls to our lot or how menial, it should be fulfilled as worthily as if it was the highest and only duty we had to perform, per-form, never losing signt of the fitful-ness fitful-ness of 'being faithful in small things as well as in mightier ones. |