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Show Degrading Domestic Service It is a common source of professed, wonder among people generally, that! women in such linancia! condili n as to j make work outside to the home neces- j ' sary, shun domestic service so much that in other occupations they will rather j ! work for four or live dollars a week and provide for their own board and lodging, than to work in a home for the 'simesum with far better board and lodging thrown in. Commissions are j inquiring into the. matter, and the fol- i lowing from an exchange gives one of j the chief cause-, anil might serve as an eye opener to the women who find it so difficult to obtain competent help, or indeed help of any kind. It is the fad these days to inquire into the wages of women who work. Commissions Com-missions are doing it in several states. The woman labor leaders one and nil, tell the committee: "I would advise a girl to work in a factory or shop for four or five dollars a week and boar 1 herself rather than take service as a domestic servant at seven dollars with her board and keep. "Why?" asks the commission. "Because," they answer, "the woman for whom she works is so tyrannical she never gives her any rest. She places upon her a social stigma ! that blights all of her prospects. She can't eat at the same table with the i family. She must receive her company in the kitchen. She is ticketed and ! labeled an inferior bjing." It is the' women who treat the members of their j own sex in shameful manner who have: been asking the legislatures to do some-1 I thing for the poor girls who worn m i stores an J f actories an 1 shops. I I |