THE SERVANT PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 512, 20 May 1909, Page 3

THE SERVANT PROBLEM.

. ,Perhap3 ablution of the servant-problem ■mayjbo.found for ;many. Wellington folk in . the • idea. that a. writer: in the' "Australasian" ! declares to ;bb vory popular in Sydney—that of having ono's domestic arrangements', in .kitchen and undertaken by - sisters. "Constantly advertisements ■ appear .for: two friends to take the .entire responsibility of housekeeping off the shoulders, of the mistross ,of_ the .home. ,-. In Buch cases.a sittingroom yith-two-nicely-furnished bodrooms is sot opart for ,the convenience of tho workers, who may arrange' their, outing as they ,pleaso as 'long as the ■ routine of household work is not interfered with. .The' workers, who may: even lib friends ,of the .family, prefer to have thenr. meals'in their; own sittingroom, and to'' keep their relationship . on strictly ,business lines, Ladies who have tried this .arrangeinent: are. charmed .with the result,. and declare that already /.many educated : girls, 'formerly in • the position of clerks and oflico girls, are offering to share this branch of woman's especial work with & friend, for the idea of having three rooms that' one may' ball: 'liome'* and invito, ; a friend to without fear of intrusion. Tho arrangement ■ appeals to many girls : who .will ■ work conscientiously if'made responsible for the househpld's. comfort.-; The (jreat, difficulty :the: way of adopting this pleasing plan in Wellington ; would be the scarcity of nouse-room and the improbability that many people could, spare three rooms for their domestio helpers." 1