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Show Mi ' i I P Hjj IL DOMESTIC HELP TROUBLES. Hffi I II An article before us tells of "the passing of the if p Home in American cities." The city home is pass- ' ing sure enough. Public houses are improving all HI the time, at least are adding comforts for their , 1 J guests all the time, and the domestic help prob- 1 i lem seems to bo reaching an unsolveable point. I Very many American girls are never trained Bg S 'i to be housekeepers, so when the task is under- K ' I taken and all the help that can be obtained is H 1 I deplorably ignorant, often indifferent, without con- B' I 1 science, and often with no honest pride, but only HB I that fool pride which makes the owner of it feel HB I that housework is degrading; then the trouble be- HPH I gins, and it is not strange that people who can B I I possibly afford It, are glad to seek rest in a hotel. B1 H l Then in tills region the cost of food purchased B ' 1 '1 at retail from day to day is a serious matter. With B : ol the trusts to fix prices, with middle-men to be B- I I paid, with the short weights which very many H I merchants persist in giving; the monthly aggre- f I !' gate is a burden which only the fairly prosperous I I can DGar- B' I ! In our treaty with China, Chinese students are Bg 81 1 admitted. We think it would be a blessed thing HH HI I to admit 100,000 ChlnBse cooks annually for Bf HI I twenty years. There are quite a million homes in B ffl I the United States that are today in despair over H M the domestic help question. H Hi! 'ri10 stores and offices absorb the brighter of Bi IBl 1 , the poor girls who want work. They will work Bl OH 'i harder for less pay in a store than in a kitchen Bf nH ' for the double reason that they hold it to be a BlI IfP higher class of work than kitchen work, and bo-fl bo-fl KM cause they have their evenings to themselves. The Bh IB ' ' trouble is growing more acute every year, and the Bfj gflj procession of families that are seeking hotels an'd HEk! l 1 boarding houses is increasing in numbers con-HP! con-HP! HI! stantly. BR' ' Bed I some great schools for teaching cooking and Rr t 911 1 housekeeping could be established in or near Bast-IB Bast-IB I jffllf 1 ern p,tle8 to take tne immigrant girls as they KIIbI! f 1&nd and Ive tliem a sIx months' training, and Hb lff tlien 8eud n0m to order throughout the country, m 'I IB hm C 1 ijj&l , that would help, and it ought to be made a profitable profit-able business. It would at least be a great thing for the American home, for just now there Is so much trouble over the domestic help question that the American home is beginning to pass. |