THE MAIDS OF DUNDEE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 539, 16 August 1872, Page 3

THE MAIDS OF DUNDEE.

(From the Observer) The maids of Dundee have had another meeting, at whic'> their unit n has ; been permanently organised, and paid officercsses appointed. Perhaps the reports of the speeches are defective, 'but it would seem to the profane outsider that the one great subject under discussion was the one subject which before her fall never troubled Eve. It was argued at length that servants "ought to be able to wear what they please,' as long as they “ do not make themselves so odious as their mistresses,” and it was accordingly agree ! as a fundamental point of the new housemaids’ charter “ that fair and full latitude shall be accorded to servants as to the style of the apparel which they may think it not improper for them to wear,” while it was further resolved that that badge of servitude, “ the flag,” “is—if insisted upon—to be paid for by the mistresses.” It is clear that before very long our best, if not, indeed, our only chance of securing a *• domestic” will he to allow her to adopt the costume of a mediaeval page in a stage burlesque. It will also be advisable that the luxe effrene des dames dela, mahm should l>e put under some control, as it is obvious that no girl of spirit will he likely to assist in a house where her fair |j chances in the matrimonial market are ■ odiously handicapped by the taw.lry finery ■ of those who call themselves her superiors. 1 If, in addition to this, mistresses remember i that a rigid investigation will henceforth ho i made into their characters, possibly all may i yet go well, especially if the sons of the ■ family adopt Mr. Morley’s suggestion, and ■ themselves carry the coalscuttle to and I from the coal cellar.