DOMESTIC HELP
Sir,-I feel that a proportion of girls and young women who might turn to domestic employment are put off it by the frequent letters in the Press from mothers who tell of drudgery, want of outside interests, lack of happiness or even of satisfaction in caring for husband, children, and home. These letters arrest attention, and influence others. I have lived and helped in households where the parents seem happiest surrounded by the family, and engrossed in work and the interests of home, which far from narrowing them down, have exactly the opposite effect. I have met kindly consideration from the parents, and the vociferous company of the children, and pet dogs, and the bubbling welcomes of the baby, have made work worth while.
SPINSTER
(Portobello).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 17
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128DOMESTIC HELP New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 17
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