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Show SERVANT PROBLEM IS OLD. Pepys Quaintly Records a Scene in His Household. There was 11 servant problem In the seventeenth cntiiry hut It was solved In a rough-r.ul :eady fashion. I'epys records, on April 12, 1(1157, that he came home, "saw my door and hatch open, loft so by Luce, our cook-maid, which so ve.x.'d mo that I did glvo her a kick In our entry and offoied n hi w at her." Two days afterward ("I.or"s day ') I'epys writes this: "Tonk nut my( wife and tho two Morcers, and 'wo of our maids, Harker and Jane, and over tho water to tho Jamaica hoiibc, where I never was before, and there the girls did run lor wagers over tho bowling green; and there with much pleasure, spent little, and so homo." Luc wns not there, but the other maids were treated as members of tho family. |