THE MAIDS OF DUNDEE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 269, 19 August 1872, Page 3

THE MAIDS OF DUNDEE.

(From the Observer , May 19.) The inaids of Dundee have had another meeting, at which their union has been permanently organised, and paid officeresses 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 some 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 agreed as a fundamental point of the new housemaids’ charter “ that fair and full latitude shall bo accorded to servants as to the style of the apparel which they may think it not im» proper for them to wear,” while it was further reported that that badge of servitude, “the flag,” “is—if insisted upon—to be paid for by the mistr. si s.” It is clear that before very long o ir nest, if not, imlee I, o"r only chance of securing a “domestic” will be to allow her t* a opt the costume of a mediaeval page in a s age burlesque. It will also be advisable that the luxe tffrene dcs dames do la maison should be put uuder some control, as it is obvious that no gil'l of spirit will tie likely to assist in a house where her fair chances in the matrimonial market are odiously handicapped by the tawdry fm< ry of those who call themselves her superiors. If, in addition to this, mistresses remember that a rigid investigation will henceforth be made into their characters, possibly all may yet go well, especially if the sons of the family adopt Mr Mori y’s suggestion, and themselves carry the coalscuttle to and from the coaj cellar.