THE FUTURE OF MARY ANN
The "servant of the future" is discussed in the "Leader," and the suggestion .is made that the whole question needs reorganising. First of all the word "servant" must go; it has an ugly sound, and in the mouth of most people is an offence. Training institutions are moat necessary, and should be established in England and in the Dominion. It is acknowledged that the haphazard training picked up by girls in various houses in the course of their wanderings as domestic helpers is very, unsatisfactory and people pay for far more than they get in every sense of the word. The remedy is, of course, a proper school of domestic economy, where the work can be arranged on modern lines and well taught. 'A standard uniforin." eays the writer, "is an essential part of the • scheme—an attractive garb lesembling the nurses, which, like that again, would indicate a certain proficiency and command a certain respect. With that must go better pay, fixed hours, so much time 'off , every afternoon, and a set of rules which shall be binding on every employer. In the Dominions women of superior education equipped on these lines for domestic service would be bure of an enthusiastic welcome. Not only that, but they would also be assured a good time. In these young countries, where it lias always been the custom for the daughters of the house to take a large part in the conduct of its affairs, the properly equipped domestio 'help' would share the family's status and have her Tecognised share in its social life. Already the experiment baa been tried with success in the household of one Australian woman whom I know. All her 'helps' are young women of good birth and education, whose duties are so arranged that any girl who has to work a little later on r.ny particular night is given a whole afternoon off by way of recompense. _ "'be only mistake my friend made was in the initial stages of her experiment, when she insisted that each girl should spe,i.«l an evening among the dinner guests as one of them. That bored the girls to distraction. They preferred tq:spend their long free evening in their own 'way—in going to the theatre,. among their intimate friends, or by themselves with music and books in their private sitting-room; and a rearrangement nas made accordingly;" i
Magistrates are heavily fining fowlhoarders (states a London correspondent). Lady Gore Langton was lined £80. She had bought sufficient tea for a year. Marie Corelli was fined £70. She protested that she was a patriot, and denied hoarding. She exclaimed: "Yon police are overstepping your <lnty and upsetting the country. Mr. Lloyd George will be resigning to-morrow and there will be a revolution in England in less than a week."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 92, 11 January 1918, Page 3
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469THE FUTURE OF MARY ANN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 92, 11 January 1918, Page 3
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