| Show SERVANT PROBLEM IS UP fOR SOLUTION Contributor Writes on the fhe Hired Girl Question of Today By Iv IVA A LARSON LARSO Even Evea the most fortunate housekeeper housekeep housekeep- er recognizes in the present situation of dt domestic service a state of affairs very c confusing Every Everyone one has a along along along long list of complaints One will say it is impossible to get a girl another will say nay that the girl girlis is of no account and will not try to du do anything The fhe domestic service of the United States has passed through many great changes in the last fifty years year Years ago the house bouse maid was recognized in every ever way as equal to the rest of the family but at the present time we find that it has changed en en- The factors which have in influenced in- in flu domestic service are immigration immigration gration and change of the industrial system The influence of immigration ra tion upon domestic service has been more or less leA similar to its influence upon occupations for men As the unskilled labor of ot the ignorant immigrant immigrant immigrant grant has entered into competition with the more skilled and intelligent native workers worker the native employers have progressed pushing up and out Into lines of work which have been deemed higher more lucrative pleas pleas- anter This has haR happened in domestic domes domes- tic service until very few native Americans American can be bt secured for house housework housework work at the present time Manufacturing Manufacturing turing Luring industries have a large in influence influence influence in- in fluence in ill determining the number of women engaged in domestic service in an any cit city or community as at they se seem m to prove prove more attractive than house work at the present time There is no chance of hi higher promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion in house work as there is in factory factory factory fac fac- tory work If we consider domestic service from the health point we may sa say it itis itis itis is far tar more healthful to work in the home as there there there-is is a greater variety of work better bettar provision of light and pure air and it affords more home life But in spite of the advantages we do find some disadvantage Irregular Irregular Irregular ular hours is the greatest cry cr we e hear To some extent this can be overcome by system and care in the arrangement of work As All we stated before that the hired girl years yea a ago was wal considered as one of the family but to day although the girl is c considered equal to the family she is IJ in no sense a part of it ID The girl is ill not allowed allowe to sit sir at the table with the family she has no private private vate room of her own and no place to take her friends so she id is forced to meet them elsewhere which does not t always lead to the best results Continued in Next Issue |
