NEW SCHEME FOR DOMESTIC SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 3

NEW SCHEME FOR DOMESTIC SERVICE

Jlrs. Bnyd Daw?ou explained «t tho Women's Institute on Ihi'reh IS the now enterprise w'nich the Women's Jndu.strial Council is conlcmiilatimr (states "The Queen"). Within the next few weeks it will organise iii a London suburb a corps of highly skilled domestic workers who can be .supplied to employers at a fixed payment, per hour. They will be under tin* direction of a manager who will advise as to how many hours' work will lie required for any given, household, and to whom complaint will be made, if any worker fniU to accomplish hei; prescribed work in the given time. The manager will have tin- right to dismiss or suspend. workers, and also Ihe right of refusing to supply employers, for it is not the intention of the scheme U como to the rescue of (he kind of on'ijiloyers who ciin_ never keep a servant. Though the employer will puy by the hour, and therefore have an interest in keeping th« seminl for us short a timo as possible, the servant (who will probably bft ciiiled a household onliFty) will receive from the corps a weekly w;ij;o lor a forty-eight horns week, witii extra pay for overtime. It may be necessary to 'charge less per hour for Ihose parts nf the dny when servants uro less in (leiiiiiiid than in the early morning and at Hie time of tho evening meal. Tho .si'rvanls may live in a hostel, aud out of their wngo (which will bo round about '.VU. a week) will provide f.lieir own biiard and lodging. Tho hoard of management, made up of represcnlatives tit employers and employed, will decitlu upon such inaUera as late of puy, ttnii'orins, overtime, holidays, etc.

Mrs. lioy<l Dawson hopes (hat this M-lieino -may induce a. better type of jjivl to iiiidcrtnkc domestic service ;ih«n that wliicli has recently furnished recruits In thitl: occiinntion. Servanls will have lised hours of work, command of their leisure time, and will not be übligi'd as now lo spend Ihcir non-working hours iwider Hie eye of their employer, without change of scene ami companionship. Thu employer will lie better off than if slic hud a daily ;.rrv;iu! of her own. sini-o tho manager would ei'iul her a sub.-:li-ttitp if her. usual maid failed, and slie H'ould obtain a more highly skillc.l worker Ilian Ihe usual daily worker. Tiie sdu'inc, cvcji if widely oslcntle'i, would obviously fail lo supply every liiml of tldinwlic iipwl, ns. lor wnmjilf, (hilt of (lie Jweller.i in isolated country houses. But there would no duiiljt Ijo sßrvHiitu ivho. lo save their U>!l|;iiur imjiipy, would si.'L'p «i l.lie houses of lliijse persons who dislil;« being lel'tolonu ;il liijjlit. Tin. , cxin.'iulittire un uiiulil be coliipamlivply high. bill, ihe ravins in Iniuspronni, fuel, mid servants' melds woiiiid to sonic extent cunipcnsalo for lhi>s, iiiul the present pysh'tn. Hip. ledum , argiicii, had huiif been decaying i!tnl i-uiilil jml iniii-h loiiypi- survive'

Wimicii hiivc tin , duly of raising the slntiis of an occupation which lies almost whully in the hands of women, bolh us pin'plii.viM-s ami ciiiploved. :ind of allowing hi domestic workers tins expression of that idci'l of pergonal iiberty which is now shared by all classes. TUfi IlAili. The care of Ihe hair involves the Hire of the scalp, and in order to promote a jjrowtii iof luxuriant hnir ill' rich appearfiiice und luslri! ,ind sell]) niiist receive attention. Fail ins hair, m-ennitiire greyne«s loss of lone and vitisity can generallv'be iiUributi'd to r. scalp that need.-i sliiniilaling or Hint is covered to a cerliiin extent with dandruff, which is the primary r.uise of seborrhora. : Mrs Kollcston's hoimi trentinent for the li'iiir lms Riii'H'd the distinction of being one of tho best ami most reliable ever placed on sale. The preparations nro remedies for tin- condition of the walp, and are specially prepared accordin- to the diagnoses from the microscopica' examination of hair (ombings, a sample of which is Bent with order. Cost of preparations for Ihree months" home treatment, with instructions, Kls. Cd., postage, ts. extra. Mrs Bollcoton, 25b' Lamblon Quay.Advt.