THE WORK YOUNG GIRLS MIGHT DO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE WORK YOUNG GIRLS MIGHT DO.

I wish it were m my power to porsuado young girls who wonder what they shall do to earn their living, that it is really better to choose some business that is in the line of a woman's natural work. Thero is a great repugnance at the thought of being a servant, but a girl is no less a servant to tho man who owns the shop where she stands all clay behind the counter than, she is where she waits upon the table or cooks the dinner in a pleasant house ; and to my mind thero would not bo a minute's question between the two ways of going out to service. . The wages are better, the home is better, the freedom and liberty are double in one what they aro in the other. If, instoad of.tho sham service that is given by ignorant and really overpaid servants to-day, sonsible girls who aro anxious to be taking care of themselves and earning good wages would fit themselves at the cooking schools, or any way they fonnd available, they would not long wait for employment, and would bo yalued immensely by their employers. When one realisos how hai'd it is to find good women for every kind of work in our houses, and what prices many rich people are more than willing to pay if they can be well suited, it is a wonder more girls are not ready to seize tho chances. It is because such work has been almost al-. ways so carelessly and badly done that it has fallen into disrepute, and tho doors of it have taken such low rank. Nobody takes tho trouble to fit herself properly, but women trust to being taught, and finding out their duties after they assume such positions, not before.—Boston Congregationalism .• .