, 1888-09-08
SERVANT GIRLS FROM INDIA.
Queen Victoria Delighted with Them.
Factory Versus Kitchen.

Factory Versus Kitchen.
Queen Victoria, according to Truth Of
London, has become perfectly delighted
with the female domestics that one of the
ladies of the royal household brought to
her from Bombay several years ago. She
has recently sent orders for servants
enough to perform the work in Osborne,
Balmoral n Windsor castles. Iii is
said that these girls from "India's coral
strand represent all the virtues and none
OF the vices common to the average city
domestic. They entertain no beaus in
the kitchen, eat none of the choice meats
left over from a meal, nave no impe-
cunious relatives to supply with sugar
and spices, do moi want to go to a picnic
every week, and never give notice that
they are going to leave just before house
cleaning time. They are represented
as quick to learn, while they con-
slider obedience as a virtue. They
soon acquire enough of the English Ian
guage to enable them to understand all
that is said to them about their work, but
never learn the words necessary to use
''in jawing back" They are scrupu-
lousy neat and orderly in doing their
work. When it is completed they go to
their own apartments and nothing is
heard from them.
1t is thought that the fashion of I'M
ploying Indian servants will extend from
palace to mansion and from there to
smaller houses. With all the complaints
about the difficulty of obtaining employ
ment in Great Britain, most h~ousekeepers
V trouble in securing domestics. As
a rule no girl will accept domestic SER
vice if she can obtain employment in a
store, shop or factory. There has been
so much said and written about higher
occupations for women that few are
willing to work on the ground floor of n
house.
Female human nature is the same in
America as in England. The disposition
in both countries is to leave the occupa-
tons that are fairly remunerative and
which offer constant employment for
those where the pay is small and the
tenure uncertain. Homework is con-
sidered as mental, while doing piece
work in a factory is regarded as elevat-
ing. 1t is claimed that there is n
certain independence about work in
a factory that does not pertain to
employment in a private house.
The sort of independence that girls
have in establishments where cloth is
made into garments that are to be sold
to a great clothing house has been shown
in thev various articles now being printed
in the newspapers. An exhibit has also
been made of the pay they receive. A
better state Of things exists in factories
where wool and cotton are converted
into cloth, and even in places where
cloth is made into garments by the firms
that sell them directly to customers, but
in neither case is there as large paw, as
good treatment, or as much leisure as
can be found in a private house presided
over by an intelligent woman
In a factory a girl learns scarcely any
thing that will be of benefit to her if she
ever has a house to keep of her own. In
the house of another, managed as the
home of a refined family, she will have
an opportunity of learning almost every
thing that will be of advantage to her in
after life. She can acquire the art of
cooking, if she is deficient in it, learn
how to take care of furniture and how
to receive and entertain company. A
man and a woman who have a few do
mestics take an interest in them and are
ordinarily good friends to them. 1t is
hardly to be expected that the overseer
of fifty persons will take an interest in
any of them.-Chicago Times.