Show I Evening Chit Chat I- I 87 ft aunt O Onn nn IT VE VENTY SE nursery maids mald In InS Ina Ina a S New Now York hospital for children chil hll T dren went on strike the other day Did the they want better bettera a wages es or shorter hours or Improved conditions con con- o of housing and feeding No 00 as tar far as Qs history relates thoy they were vero satisfied with all nil these things s. s The rC reason tho they thoy struck was simply be because be be- cause ause the superintendent nt of or tho lie hospital refused d to grand their request to be called ailed Miss so 80 and so Instead of merel merely Mar Mary Ann Anti or whatever ci other othet cognomen their heir parents had endowed them with Funny Doesn't seem particularly no so o to me tue Instead It seems to m nuo like a n very r serious and ander er very much worth thinking about abouL sidelight on tho domestic service problem J I havo recently been investigating the heartrending conditions o of or tho the girl Irl who works in lii a 1 shop or factory 0 or office for 4 or 01 5 a R week wee and manages manaRes to completely com coin filet support herself on that sum When hen I tell 11 people some ome of the pa- pa facts I 1 unearthed many man of or thorn them say 33 a Yes that is all alt yer very sail sad but why h dont don't Ion t those girls go o Into Juto domestic service ser CI vice Ice Thc They would Ret get et very co much mitch b better bet bet- t. t h ter r pa pay nay there and be always B sure of or a comfortable home homo and plenty to eat cat I Well cH lh theres there's rc probably the most nil fill reason wh why liy they dont don't epitomized In that nUI nursery maids maids' strike In a shop chop or facto factory or office a n girl tJ Is Miss s so fiO and so flO In the time kitchen or nursed nurs- nurs ed edy she aho Is mere merely Mal Mary Mar Ann And I dont don't mean menn Just jUlL In title tille of or course hut In standing Tho The monotony and the tho lack of or Independence mile Inde go 10 tar fir to ma make ke domestic service service ser per vice unpopular but I 1 dont don't believe e the they keep half HO so man many girls out of tho work a as tho the feeling f hut hat a domestic servant Is looked down dOn upon il 1 1 personally know a very ei Sine finc Intelligent Intelli gent girl Irl who has taken up domestic service lc l because she alto Uk likes vs the work better better bet bet- ter than offIce shop or factory work I and because she hc can make more monc money at It It And yet ct she sIte Is 1st l continually an and unhappy simply h because ca o s she Iho ho feels that she hc Is looked hooked down clown upon bc because u c of at her position tion When t she sho he meets new people she sho a always tries to conceal her occupation from them and utters suffers agonies of or foolish when they fluid find out She Is 15 Just tho kind of girl most wo women women wo- wo Omen O men want to lo have ii in their homes And she Is just tho kind of oC girl gin we e wont won't h have hc c man many of until we wo succeed In raising domestic service to the same level as illS other othel vocations And uil that wo seo means every o er employer of oC a domestic helper How 1 can you OU help ral raise e the level of or this vocation Simply b- b by treating the girl Irl In your our kitchen In so M far as her personality warrant warrants warrants war war- rants rant it It as at an c equal J. Treat flea t her as respectfully II as you ou would ou 1 If you were a business s woman and she sho were ero your our stenographer Be Do Interested In iii her affairs and her friends friend not In a patronizing but bill a friendly way Introduce her to your friends wh when hen n oc occasion oc cc- casion arises es and show them that you OU OUre re respect ped her Insist upon your our children tr treating her herre re respectfully respectfully- Above I mu think J shame ham on yourself 3 oll ctr and give yourself elC a mental scourging If Ir over or you ou find yourself even way 8 down In Iii your heart looking hooking down Own upon her Just be because because be- be cause CRue she phe I IB Is n a servant A An Are these thes- things g Impo Impossible Thc They ought not to lJ be C-a. C I |