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Show A Wohd job Bridget. The plain truth of the matter is that the whole native population of the United Stales has almost suddenly and with one accord refused to perform for biro any of the services usually called "menial" or indoor. The men have found other more productive fields of industry, indus-try, and the women, under the influence influ-ence of the prevailing theory of life, have resolved to accent any employment employ-ment at any wages sooner than do other peoplo's housework. The result re-sult has been a demand for trained servants which the whole European continent could not supply if it would, and which has proved so intense that it has drawn the peasantry out of the fields en masse from the one European country in which the peasantry was sufficiently poor to be tempted, and spoko or understood the American language. No such phenomenon has ever been witnessed before. No country before has ever refused to do its own "chores," and called in an army of loreigners for the purpose. To complain bitterly of their want of skill is, therefore, under the circum-stancesj circum-stancesj almost puerile, from an economical econ-omical point of view; while, to any one who looks at" the matter as a moralist, it is hard to see why Bridget, doing the work badiy in the kitchen, is any more a contemptible object than the American sewing girl killing herself in a garret at $3 a week, ou', of devotion to the "principle of equality." equal-ity." Xation, |
