Show OLD FASHIONED HIRED GIRL domestic service in family used to be an institution n of pleasant importance we wa note that a so called hired girl has lived with one family 54 years what a compliment that Is to the girl and likewise to the family the domestic service in a family used to be an institution ot of pleasant importance and tho the relationship often extended through many years it was waa not un uncommon common to have the same girl in the amily ten or fifteen years in those days domestic service was waa regarded as just as honorable as keeping store or running a typewriter which it is we remember a girl at ow our home many a summer ago who came from a prominent family in the country and she stayed years for a week but amounted to a great deal more than it does in these dene days that girl maintained a beautiful sway over the family joys she was supreme and modest at the time the children would go to ler her for bread and butter pieces and to have their cl athes buttoned up she sat at tables with the rest of tho the family but that was in the golden goiden age before the maids and servants came and when a quiet and loving service was the best test ot of a persons worth we need a new word tor for hired girl servant domestic maid or kitchen girl conveys a meaning of inferiority which does not belong to the case cas 3 such a person Is a superior being anyone who holds the destiny of a family in her fists is no subordinate she occupies a throne from alch graciousness is expected bhoj though h not always forthcoming A I 1 good hired girl la Is like an honest man the noblest wor i t of got goi |