Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-05-15
" SERVANTGALISM. "


which the New York Times is quoted at some
length, calls our attention to the detestibe
features of American home life so far as hired
help is concerned. There are few ladies who
have not experienced the vexations that are
80 sure to follow the employment of female
help. The wages paid here in Nevada are
out of all proportion to the ability of families
needing house help, and at the same time by
sort of combination among servant girls
there is a seeming scarcity in this class of la
Dor at any price. With here and teere an
exception, it seems that the very fact that ex-
horbitant wages are paid is the basis upon
which this female employee dictates terms as
TO the amount and character of the service
she will perform. The high rate of wages en-
aDles house girl to live half the time with
out any employment and instead of showing
any disposition to work steadily and. save the
earnings that rapidly accumulate, they are
content to live good portion of the time IN
idleness and the abuse of their employers.
Such thing as willing, honest service in
a family for fair wages is almost unknown.
remarked some time ago, of that tough
sort that remind one of the areh-en
envy of mankind. They enter employment as
the enemy of the household, as spies concern
ing family affairs, as dessemnatOrs of false
hood among their own class for the purpose
of creating difficulty for those who need help
and are willing to pay for it, They leave their
service under the most trying circumstances,
and combine in their conclaves TO create all
the difficulty possible in supplying the places
they have left They are enemies and spies
in our houses, and as a rule whsperers of
lies when away from them AS class they
deserve richly wholesome example or two to
teach them that they have no more right to
be dishonest, untruthful or slanderous than
other persons. They have no right to place
difficulties in the way of such employment.
Domestic service is more or less necessity
in every community, and any intentional OBJ
structions placed in the way of housekeeping
in this respect, is an evil of such public
nature that the laws ought to remedy them.
The friendships between the mistress of the
mousse anu tLe uoueStlcs tnat "eIe OICe Cile
rule, and singularly pleasant, are no longer
known, but on the contrary, are carefully
suppressed by class of female help who
strive every year to be less and less compe-
tent for their places; to be less and less
honest and economical in household matters,
and by dishonest combinations to compel
proportionately higher rate of wages. A pub
lie and general sentiment ought to be fostered
making it respectable as far as possible to dis
pense entirely with this kind of dishonesty,
incompetency and greed Not one in fifty of
these servant girls try to make family life
pleasant or endurable. Let our daughters
learn to supply the comforts and pleasures of
family life that are now too much confded
to a class of social enemies who have no
aspiration but to be useless hireings for out
rageously high wages. The advice given by
the Enterprise i'll this respect is admirable,
and ought to be readand followed by the many
young girls in the land. Something must be
done, or the pleasures of home life will be
thing of the past. These servant girls will
not undertake to better things They growl
at the employment and presence of Chinese
in this country, but they arbitrarily demand
of every mistress whom they pretend to
serve, that the family washing shall |
be sent to the Chinese wash house
They argue that they can relieve the mistress
of the house of many little care that Chi
naman cannot, but in fact they make almost
as much work as they perform, and reduce |
instead of enlarging, the leisure of the mother
of the family. These things are becoming so
common that no household is free from them,
and so significant that employers cannot af-
ford much longer to submit to them. The
press all over the country is taking hold of
the matter, and some beneficial changes can
not but take place III of time. Our
wives and mothers, can, if they will, do much
to solve the problem, and create unity of
sentiment that will make the banishing of this
" servantgalism" entirely practicable
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