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Show "Beaux and Amusements" Answers to Modern Domestic Serve Problem i - . u i ru m i j NEW YORK. At last w csn see the way out of the woods in the domestic do-mestic service problem. "I predtett," Andrew iizare, manager man-ager of New York's largest employment employ-ment agency" that In a year housewives house-wives will no longer have a how-to- ! keep-house problem. In New Vurk U is being soUed by immigration, by the closing of factorieo In nearby towns and by the irrflux of colored workers from the south. I I w in. i ICTOREI 8. "Ill the central vet, the shutlinc down of industry from superacid it to normal state, will cause many thousand:' thou-sand:' o' ghl- to seek housework places Inhere their $S to $1S weekly Is clear 'aavtng, their living condlttohs better, their Work less tiling, more heal lifnl land come definite part of their time their own. tot beaux' and nmuse- i men ia" In i hose words "beaux and a muse - menta" lie.s the whole secret of why girls Insist on working In shops. A woman I know, who has kept he.- "treasure" for ono whole year Isold a hall al wage of 54n a month, IreJeaaeS her two evenings each week !for the dance at the St- Nicholas Rink where the lady thaperone intio-Iducaa intio-Iducaa guaranteed and investigated young men; and on Sunday nights for t h movies. Ml 1 i I VRJ I Ml N I 'Tlo abUormal situation brought on by the war." says Lazare. "has tatiffht laomething to both eiaployer and em-I em-I ployed. They are BOTH learning Isenge and beginning to meet on mutu-ally-agrecrible terms. "True, cooks are nol yet eager for employment, general houseworks' not above miking as t(ft terms as tlo , lire But tho Jojful truth is that there. Are cooks to he had, ami with a j little compromising the distracted! home maker who has been forced to! run her hous? short-handed an get a maid for $3" a month up. !' ll VH l MINIMI M Wages have tome down jo per cent. Maids air- getting plcflttfu at the agencies. Children are being allowed. 'ook no longer demands the use of , the piano ever.', night. .And Tlllle will, even launder madame's personal I silk "undies." But tlie good old days of the twenty-dollar twenty-dollar general help will never come back:. A dollar a day vvill be the min- - 3-:'N6 solved MEjOT - il BHlTO uot ce - It. 1 hl: :; ' ''M n!l 'Cm Contpromisc and "let's he rOOSOIUl blr " arc the order of the day. I imiiiiiii henceforth' and forever, with a Better times for the housewife are chance to entertain thr policeman in at hand, however, for compromise and the kitchen once i'i ii while, and "beau "let's i rcasbnablo! are the order oi rdahts" bj deflnil a rra pgi ment.' the |