_. Sitr,-What.a silly piece of twaddle to call "domestic help" slavery. What else but a domestic help is any wife and mother? Some do it badly and some do it ‘Well, ‘but a paid person who comes to "do" for you, whether on a full-time basis or just a few hours daily, is your equal or perhaps your better, because she knows her job and does it, and holds her hand out for her pay when she has done her job. A good. domestic worker is worth her weight in gold ‘anywhere. She is only a slave when she has‘a bad mistress. The woman who stands aloof and makes herself into an overseer is a bad mistress and will be for’ ever looking for help. Domestic service is a grand job. I know because I have done it and left a good home everywhere, What is the difference between a good cook and a good secretary? Would you call a secretary a slave because she s things easier for. hér employer? * wrong in peeling potatoes and ‘keeping a "house "clean?
CAPTAIN COOK
(Titabi Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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