| Show THE HELP QUESTION THIS vexed help or servant gal gall question is is always breake breaking n out somewhere nast last it id 19 agitating philadelphia and the newspapers of the quaker quaker city are fuli full of it IL all the discus sers of the question appear to be bd unanimous on one point that the demand domand exceeds tb the c supply same here then why not go te to work to create a supply for the demand how itow to do this is the grand question and upon this qi question estion agreement is difficult very on a small scale special importations from europe have proved satisfactory but for how long the answer is feared shortly the trim active actie e handy servant girl will find som some e ardent youth soliciting her hei hand in marriage except she live in massachusetts cli ell chu ehu metts where the ladies think of soliciting the hands of the gentlemen fora help who knows how to keep a house in order with her own hands wands and is willing to do it promises to make a far better wife wire than tharl the lazy jazy grecian bended bonded young lady who deems it a dis disgrace mee meo to wash the dishes or saree sweep atho tho house even when she is cap capable atlo ailo of those accomplishments of all capoor poor things for a man to take to wife the poorest is tho the young girl who has been brought up to dress dresa herself to the eyes and never to soil her hands with household work because her parents have a little money A smart clean neat lively energetic and industrious servant gal is worth a thousand of the tho lolling yawning I 1 nin fin nicky pasty checked expensive useless dolls of young ladies ladles who know how to do nothing worthy of an intelligent tell igent being if the he demand cannot bo be supplied then cut short the demand if you cannot obtain a certain thing then dont want to petain it do without it if you want a good goode js ervant and cant do better be your own servant and be inde independent eident of others depend upon it this N is latter method is not without its advantages Advant agee some of them great ones too if you become your own servant you will know what it is to be a tand you yon could hardly wish for a better mistress than your own self you call can make as little work as possible for your servant to do you can do it when and how you like likes you can do it exactly to your own mind you I 1 can speak in the tiie kindest of tones to yourself you sou can ean pay yourself the highest and best kind of wages w ages so far as you aie ale at e able abie and spend nd them all yourself you can go out and come in and retire to and arise from rest lest when you please and in short as we have shown you can not nob only be your own servant but your own mistress as well this is a most delightful and ind independent dependent epen dent kind of life and what is more it is within reach of every healthy woman high or low rich or poor the only wonder is that so few people seem to be enamored of it because people are not enamored of it goes up this distressful cry for help from others who are almost as slow blow to come forward to be servants of others as others are to be their own servants one of the philadelphia papers sugg suggests ests th that at the rising generation of young american girls of the middle class will have to be fully instructed in jq domestic work that Is is good so far as it goes but it does not go far eno enough tigh it tends to the distinction of caste so hateful to American the mind for when it I 1 is B understood that the ille middle class girls are to be helps or servants who will want to belong belang to the middle class every eveny ever eve r enterprising girl firl will be anxious tp t get out of ft it and as but few could get into the higher class they must needs sink to the lower which possibly pos sibly many of efthem them would do in bissing missing the position aimed at in their ambitious striving and then the last end of such would be worse than the finst first no young girl would be forward to advertise herself as belonging to the middle class by allering oli oll bring ering herleif herself herh herl elf eif aa aai a servant that is not exactly the way another paper suggests that the difficulty would be solved if a dozen wealthy reigning belles of the period could be persuaded to make housework fashionable as then all the middle class belles and others would rush pell mell hao into the kitchen to follow the fashion that is all very well but fashion is proverbially ver bially nickle fickle and the reign of a fashion of th atkind would be likely to be one of the brief estand after it was gone by the iho situation would become moie more hopeless than ever there things connected with this help question which would relieve it amazingly the first is that every girl not of the middle class only but of every class high hig highest liest middle middie luw and lowest ought t be properly instructed in household labor so that she could if need be ve perform thereof whether whet her cook cooke ing co setting the table tabie washing bromn ironing scouring the floor or anything 9 else se creditably and expeditiously t tiou on sly siy this thia would not only materially reduce the demand for help but would enable many any a family who could well enough afford to hire help to get along without distress in the accidental absence of help from whatever cause besides a giri girl firl jirl who was perfectly at home in itchen kitchen and dining room accomplishments ments need not be ignorant of drawing room accomplishments and with the former she weald be infinitely more acceptable as a ilife wife to a husband than if s she he w were e highly agh accomplished in th the e drawing room but mi miserably deficient an and ign ignorant 0 rant in those things which pertain in to the material comfort and happiness of the household it is a much more valuable accomplishment comp lish ment and far more satis satia tying to a hungry husband for his wife to be competent to prepare and set bet him a chelce and inviting dinner or supper than for her to have the knack of keing being being the most dressy lady in the ballroom ballroom or to bo be a facile on the piano A husband gets hungry two or three times a day and his linen needs needy tho the skilful application of soap and water two or three times a week but he can manage without seeing a dance or hearing a piano for a much longer time than any of those and without en danged ing either his health or his temper the second thing is that it is a vital mistake to suppose that labory labor any kind of useful labor is degrading that servitude is a badge of inferiority and therefore should be universally shunned eo so far as is possible possible os sible sibie on the contra rythe only liono honorable rable rabie thing in the world is useful labor and the most noble of all labor is labor for the benefit of others labor therefore instead of being A sign of de degradation meation is really the only patent patens of nobility there is no excellence either of character or other attainment attainments without labor he that is greatest among you let him be servant servant of all s this has hns the highest author ity ich ica ich dien 1 I serve servo server is a mato motto proudly main maln maintained taine darn among ong european nobility I 1 it t is no disgrace it is a creditable thing a thing thang w to be proud of for man or woman woma n of whatever rank ratib to serve others even for wages to shrink from labor labor is he or she that will not work should not eat though many such do and of the fat of the land too W domestic service or any kind of service should be considered honorable when well performed the performer is entitled to the tile respect due to a gentleman or lady to the consideration due duo to a brother or sister and moreover to the wages or pay which the labor performed is honestly worth without deduction or depreciation of any kind it is really no dl disgrace ace for a girl to engage in ther the domestic service vice vico of others othe rs in in order to maintain herself comfortably and in that position if she fulfills fulfils her duties properly if she does her work well she is it as worthy of P respect D r e t as the young lady jady in bilk silk in t the K e parlor and so far as real worth Is concerned perhaps much more so herein is where the grand re formation is needed let labor be considered honorable let the non laborer be considered de degraded let everybody learn to lab iab labor labon or let everybody be expected to labor let the laborer be ag aswell well weil respected and as well paid as hoor he or she ought to be and then the help question wil wll will be satisfactorily solved nobody will be ashamed to labor and few will shrink from it even in the domestic service bervice of others when advisable to so engage themselves faithfulness in labor is also a prime requisite it which every laborer ought to bri bring g to his or her work band and without which the laborer 13 is worthy neither of respect nor of pay |
