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Show PLIGHT OF HOUSEMAID WORTHY OF ATTENTION Br HELEN WELSHIMER It is a strange paradox that you can plan your We by schedule If you type letter or teach geography for a living, but you have to go along on the tide if youwashjcupiandaucerj and make beds. Especially if they are someone else'a cupa and aauceri that you wash with somebody else's soapiiane. somebody else's kitchen! No wonder girl who ar engaged in domestic science are sounding a plea for a definite code of aervice. This letter Is indicative of their attitude: at-titude: "Because I'm Interested In home-making, home-making, food products and the other interests that go with th upkeep of a home, I went into domestic service instead of becoming a bookkeeper book-keeper as my sister did. She has her own hours and a certain respect from th community. Tet I work much harder than ah doe and really mak more money than he doe. Why shouldn't I share an equal social position and an equal right to soma leisure t Why?" Should Have Regular Hours Tou should. After all It la Just as noble to mak cake as it la to writ a aong or add up a list of numbers in a ledger. Just because you work between household walls doesn't mean that you should have a succession of never-ending tasks. Housework should be organised as well as office work. You hsv every right t rebel because you ar accorded a lower status than ur sister. Any work that Is clean and decent is honorable. honor-able. Ever ainc there have been poets and clergy and men who love well-ordered homes, they have sung the praises of woman's work of home-making. There are rulers in th world today who ar trying to direct a great exodus from the offices and schools to th kitchens. It is ironical to be forced to believe, be-lieve, aa we must, that home-making home-making tasks are considered less honorable when performed by those who are paid In money for their accomplishment than by those wbo minister In homes of their owe Undoubtedly, the secret of this Strang phenomenon comes In the fact that society has a profound respect for organization and the domestic service has always been at loo ends. Although no woman or man has a right to fore another person into utter sublimation just because he or she is on the payroll, those who are engaged In domestic service serv-ice frequently find that they work around the clock. True, there are gracious, kind employers who grant privileges and mak few demands, de-mands, but unfortunately there are many who think that housework should not call a halt when the clock strikes an appointed hour. It is because of this group that the maids feel th need of banding together. to-gether. Enforcement a Problem How could any rules be enforced to see that women eemployed in hemes get a square deal, the question ques-tion rises? After all, a man's home is his castle. The Magna Charta established It as such. Within its walls, palatial or humble, he rules supreme, and it isn't anybody's business busi-ness if he goe to bed at o'clock or read tiU 7. Not until all people are kind and considerate and fair, not until man's inhumanity to man is as antiquated as th early (ton age, will w be able to do away with supervision in the relationships of the human race. Therefore, the true must suffer suf-fer with th untrue, th just with th unjust Just th same, a question of paramount interest arises if the housemaids' union should become a reality. Is it wiser to let the law Invade man's home to see that he doea right by the girl who bakes the bread and answer th doorbell, door-bell, or is it better to trust to his decency and honor and let the domestic drama within his own four walla be sacred to him? |