Show A VERY PRACTICAL BOOK MISS SALMONS WORK WORIC ON OH DOMESTIC 11 I 1 it treats of the question from all the this the real heal object eions to such service stated correspondence Correspond enco tribune new york foil feb lc wiss lucy maynard ila 7 salmon tile the well known prof professor nor of history at vassar college caller e has written a book on DomeN tl service billich nill nil be published effling the week by the macmillan company any serious discussion ot of tills this subject which haa been well called the ere great a t american can question must be of national ini por tande cei and miss bliss salmons work Is 13 pet perhaps h ap 8 elie most important exhaustive and interesting ever prepared on the subject in this country tho the on which the work la Is healed had bas been obtained through fth the careful conscientious collection of 0 sta ata unites compiled from many sources a herculean task extend log over years aam first step the author sent out three schedules Iche dules of 0 questions one for employees employee a and one risking asking for or general information in regard to the exchange the th teaching reaching of 0 ho gioimo hold employments and kindled topics these thi ae were submitted to several persons prominent in statistical II 11 wrea and utter after revision were distributed broadcast by the thousand iless acs than half odthe of the schedule schedules ache dules wele return d with amIN to 10 the questions filled out although the proportion ot of replies replica from employees was larger than bad been expected and several everal ti ln in women 11 ho hud been in do bestle entered into a L full tits of ili hio subject going belong the limitations of the questions the tabu tabulation latton of the filled out blanks disclosed several interesting facts acta one Is 13 that the foreign born servant rec elvet higher than tile the native born TM this bals a tou touted n d 10 lo t bo be arm true e lit in every clam claa cla a of 0 occupations in evry every see lion lu JEE flip case of both men and women and inthe returns fiade by both fui plover a and nd employee t art an ceplina ploll the author hor thinks tauy im lj found fact in throe facca if the frefel c fice 0 of f tile the foreign horn born for or the larre large of CHIPS bios elizes arn 17 in I 1 dominci tic fervida are alwn f I 1 I 1 in tile countey tim pio inor dl i lon or of I 1 nii adiong ione tin tile i native ath I 1 born il ill alid I 1 tile lie re suAl vely bet t on elm cims I 1 of othor for den born women omen who enter domestic I 1 service estimating the average wag wages or at women lilt I 1 service and ot of 1 hose engaged la in teaching reaching wid and vil similar lular vocations avocations alna salmon reaches thu no 1 union that the domestic to is better belter to paid and has bolter better opportunities save than the teacher tt tho the expenses 0 of living in the case c iso 0 of the teacher moro more than equalizing tho the ill difference in the I 1 amount of 0 money received indeed one of 0 the foremost reasons given by employees for or entering domestic service rather than a shop or factory Is that they eon can mane make more rn money loncy miss sa salmon in on publishes wilif out 0 of course W free giving civi ng the names of oc the tha writers many of 0 t the he I 1 letters etters received from girls employed ax as domes tics bics and they tire are exceedingly interesting rending reading one gives as tile hie reason for or choosing such work that the knowledge affairs and household of 0 cooking generally which aich Is a so a acquired 1 Is tho the lest beat possible pre preparation lion for or presiding over a home of onos ones own such euch as am every young woman eap exp expects acts to gilve adoth exactly the opposite ire view saying tr or t r taken girl 1 I think going out makes a stupid in time she gets out of style so to speak bile never nevee reads and does not know what Is going on in the world then I 1 think shop or factory girls make the best wives now I 1 the biggest part of 0 dont mean fill all but them and the cleanest housekeepers domestic after the she gets snarr married led the careless she ilont dont ilon t take the pride gets shop girl does docs in tier her home that tile the lived in such fine houses that S she he him has for tenement ament has haa no beauty or her strait small ten tier her after tho the farat clr it glow blow of 0 married life I 1 Is a over she dont donl don l try either to makr make or herself and ana gets her ter home attractive to make ft a man ma n discouraged and Is apt dis heartened with fill her and then I 1 she hits has so think she he is 13 extravagant much to do anith w ath before 8 she Is with after she don t and a BO 0 little to do know he how W t to 0 m manage an ag a she he cant have tenderloin steak V tor r her breakfast a and nd rump roast for her he r dinner din tier and pay the rent and all other bills out of 0 12 EL a week and tile the average roans mans pay the kind 0 of a S man the girls that work tor for IL a living get HIM bliss salmon concludes from the information that she has haa gathered that the moat serious disadvantage in domestic service Is the low social position the employment entails at the present time on those who enter it this thin shows shown itself in various ways way most noticeably perhaps tn in tile the lack of 0 home privileges and ami one ot of the letters from a girl wor working kling in a private family star states the case with crude clo CIO quence ladles wonder how thet their girls can complain of 0 loneliness in A house rull full of people but oh it 11 la is the worst wont kind of 0 loneliness their share Is but tho the work of 0 tile the hoesr thoy do not and ana delights 0 of a share in the pleasures home one must remember that there Is a difference between a house a place ot of shelter and n m horre it a place where your affections are centered cent reta real lov 0 exists between betwee n m my y er employer n pl 0 yer a and n d rn myself y yet at t i mo a I 1 grow g r v almost im 0 s t d desperate eq at the sense of 0 be being ing cut oft off from those pleasures to wh tell I 1 have a always 1 wil y s b been ee n a accustomed acu ecu 0 t om e d I 1 belong to t the h e s same a m e e church u rc 1 as L 0 my m Y em employer yet lave have no share in the social life of the church the use of the christian name appears from the information collected by bliss salmon to bo be another cause of the american girl girls a reluctance to enter domestic service their mark of social inferiority may tile author sam fayn seem a fling matter yet the fact remains that domestic employees acs are the only class of workers except day laborers who ore are thus aud kven more objectionable la Is the i english n gai h I 1 cur curtoni curhorn torn sometimes affected in america america of dropping the C christian name and using the surname without it a title since it implies social inferiority evert even more than the familiar door address it should bo be remembered that in saying baying all this miss salmon Is merely pointing out th the a oba objections atlon 9 to domestic be service g giving v in C ai ag far as possible the point of view of f the employee and she ehe hazards hazard no suggestions as to low how servants should be addressed there Is however hov over no mistaking the sympathy N with lilt which she spec speaks L k s 0 f g graver r E lve r features ot of domestic dis discrimination c r lm f antl t 1 0 uch such tor for example as sending tho maid inala out ft at I 1 night with aith the daughters gr or even the mother of oc the family and left to return alone it if protection bo be the thought the maid nevils it as much ill an the ilia mistress it if it Is in deference t to 0 a social custom the maid must bitterly resent any custom that demands the distinction between herself and those whom horn she serves another aspect of the same question ix Is suggested suRRe aled v lien it Is realized what hat veritable long dens of iniquity are some of the it intelligence 0 ot floes in the large elt cities ions and how bov difficult it often is in for a employee to come in contact with III them om without becoming contaminated by tuh touch those these are the things that lead man many ly to believe that the kitchen has become very like a social botany boy bay one illustration of ct the fact that d domestic service Is never judged by the bame me social canons its as other occupations Is seen in the unwillingness shown by a young woman to enter the corx ice of a family having a questionable reputation her as a lc it was culled excited only laughter in a circle of women no one of whom w horn would have exchanged calls with the family in question ft fully halt half the large book Is given up to the discussion of the arguments for and against domestic service and every page w ill bo be read with interest by every man and every woman who thinks and feels and strives to dolve lires lifes problems the mass ot of testimony presented by miss salmons painstaking pains taking dakins and conscientious work may be conflicting and may not throw any cry helpful I 1 light ight on the vexed question ot of domestic service but it seems to show that what domestics domestico as a class desire Is the opportunity of 0 living their own ourn lives lit in their own way the universal right t to be happy how to bring brine tills this aborio about IV ml if 13 9 salmon does not profess to kno know IV and many experiments I 1 looking king to t the a deil r bd end are op under the t lit head ad ot of doubtful Rem eeles to th hits class belong the training schools schools or domestic which must alu always 9 be it failure the author thinks w while its the american character and american ans continue unchanged lin hanged aserleon rleon s greze Ame n will never reco one kind or of train training in a for it a superior serial claar and avi another rither tor for an interior inferior the training school tor for servants means the introduction or of A caste utterly nt al variance w lilt democratic ideas Itha it has snot not ideen eon at any time since the abolition 0 if slavery to educate any class in solety to he be servants it will never again be a in america democracy amoni among men and aristocracy among ns naom 11 cannot exist side by side fr friction I 1 etriss I 1 Is a as inevitable as aa it I 1 was v between free labor and slave labor in the antebellum ante antt bellum days opportunity tor for scientific lentino sc training in all household e m alu must fit ultimately bp be given in in pull buch a fits boim in that any arid and all persons can call obtain it but it can call never be given in a school distinctively intends intend S for to tile air training train ot of servants and called by that name a a a C cooperative co 0 operative housekeeping miss sal men cebul also believes 1 7 to llave have been bce hunsuc con rut h by trial the moro more notable ex peri r ments 19 in tills 11 line are spoken ken ot of at length and r the results a certainly wem to show that the remedy for or the peros ant question 10 IS not 0 to be found ull in cooperative housekeeping I 1 notwithstanding that all ah that la Is needed Is the pro SJ pe on to t take akl charge W the coni of t possible remedies I 1 Ls rullo interest ond find fresh mesa ideas which ire well w borth listening to altho although u gh they hey are theoretical rather than p practical r a c the suggestion that bet 6 encouraged kod to join el 14 and 1 ties ii hardly lalli com merill itself to the bouse h wifel wit of 0 ex exper perlene lenie nor Is site she likely kel to take kindly adly to the proposition to address her employee as Illi enuse nine ice liebner li epner 0 per when she holds that office tier her self ut th the suggested compromise on ohp lh sore subject of the cw alia rha apron mav well be taken adelae in inena cat I 1 tile cap MI 3 sniff argues hould never be norn 0 OOT n of doors since it 15 i oo no protection for the hal adin T either um lat heat or t y or torin tonn n and tile apron ap Is for or yi reet wear L y if T would lie ile with tile sparing UP 1 aring I or r the h ca ap and ap n nn 7 3 thi th Anti anticol lol nio silly uma fici alon of at le be hilved it f I 1 I 1 WIP SS 1 36 solution tion of much doi nostIc difficulty 1 and it Is quite likely that housekeepers who have more money than industry and who care moro more for their own fade eaje than whether the food of the family Is grood good or bad may buy the greater part of it already cooked but only a millionaire with tho the digestion of ao an ostrich could depend upon the iho average comans womans exchange to supply it 0 concerning education in household matters liters miss salmon says before improvement cau can ile be looked for in any an y of the cheso 0 direct directions ine the position muot bu be abandoned that the household or any single part of it can be managed Dian aced by instinct A second explanation ot of tho the prevailing inactivity in regard tn 10 houSel household sold affairs arises front from the fact this that it Is always assumed that these subject concern only woman tho the husband of tho the family often excuses his absolute ignorance of tile tho affairs of his 0 own w it household by the lame time apol oxy OKA 11 1 I 1 leave cave all these thinly to my wife and daughters it Is certainly not the intention lot of these remarks to belittles I 1 the he afra affairs irs of tile the household yet that is the natural and inevitable result A knowledge of household affairs has never liten been lit en considered a part of liberal education as a s tj Is A knowledge of literature science find annj politics but when it la Is so regarded by men as well as by women a creat pain gain ft lil ill have been maje m moreover it must be said that the natural tastes of some men would lead them to take up bouse housekeeping keeping as aa an occupation era as the natural tastes of oc some flomo women lead them into different kinat of business activity in tile the household will come como i when hen the arbitrary pressure Is removed that now tacitly compels many women to become housekeepers in ID il lo olence lence to their natural tastes tables and at the same time prevents any man whose abilities lie in this 1 direction d ir e ct i 0 n fr from 0 m elvane gi v i n g t them h e m s scope c 0 p e T t time m e r must n u st r come 0 me when b e n e each a c h person ta e r a 0 ii wilim will 1 tako take up the work in life for which he h or ahe abe Is best acl adapted apted be it the ca caw of a house forn for a man or busine bu alness ts for a woman weman when it will cease to be matter of odium for the husband to direct the affairs of the house and for the wife to be the breadwinner bread winner having had the courage thus thua to express it a secret belief lief that has hag hardly ever been voiced before the author goes on to lidlow how mistaken q the impression that every woman possesses a latent genius for housekeeping grid and that it will develop when needed without any sort of cultivation A spirit of fearless sincerity characterizes characterize indeed the whole ablo intern interesting work and it if the author has not found a satisfactory answer to thee areat gr e at american question she has haa thrown a good di dal of nw new light into dark places and has gathered cat herd is a treat great many valuable Matist les alch trust must ultimately aid in the solution of this problem of dom estle service NANCY HUSTON BANKS |