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Show .SiiperriIon or Domr-sHc 'Itecommendatioiis" for si-rvants are of not much acount in Vienna. Indeed, the whole matter of the employment of domestics is under the super Won of joliee. What is known as a servants' Imok is kept, nnd in it the iwlicerecon! each girl's ilisinissiIsandre-eiigagemeiits,along with copieB of character given by each employer. This character his to contain the three wonls, "treu, tleL-sig.sittsam," honest, industrious and well conducted. A mltrv-s msyle-avo out any of these three words If he finJs cause, Isit few venture to lo so. The d ij after she has dismls'-nl a servant w ith a defective de-fective charactershe reetlvesa summons sum-mons to tho police station where she lias to swearun tho crucifix tint the girl Is rither not honest, industrious indus-trious on Irtuous. She is rigorously cross-examined, nnd if the girl Insists In-sists with her denial the visits ot the police am re-pratcd o er and o ir again. hx. |