Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-07
SERVANT GIRLS FROM INDIA.
Queen Victoria Dslighted with Them.
Factory Versus Kitchen.

fHctOry versus hltCnen.
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 and Windsor castles. 1t, 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, have no impe-
cunious relatives to supply with sugar
and spices, do 20 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
hat is said to them about their work, but
never learn the words necessary to use
in having back" They are scrupu-
(ously 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 en-
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
nent in Great Britain, most housekeepers
have trouble in securing domestics. As
b rule no girl will accept domestic SER
vice If she can obtain employment in a
store, shop or factory. There has been
10 much said and written about higher
occupations for women that few are
willing to work on the ground floor of q
house.
Female human nature is the same in
America as in England. The disposition
IN both countries is to leave the occupa-
lions that are fairly remunerative and
which offer constant employment for
hose where the pay is small and the
tenure uncertain. Homework is con-
Fidered as mental, while doing piece
work in a factory is regarded as elevat-
ng. 1t is claimed that there Is a
certain independence about work in
D 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 the various articles now being printed
n 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
n neither case is there as large pay, as
good treatment, or as much leisure as
Fan be found in a private house presided
bver by an intelligent woman.
In a factory a girl learns scarcely any
hing that will be of benefit to her if she
over has q house to keep of her own. In
he house of another, managed as the
home of a refined family, she will have
hn opportunity of learning almost every
hing that will be of advantage to her in
after life. She can acquire the art Of
booking, if she is deficient in it, learn
how to take care of furniture and how
% receive and entertain company. A
nan and a woman who have a few do
nestics take an interest in them and are
ordinarily good friends to them. 1t is
hardly to be expected that the overseer
If fifty persons will take an interest in
my of them. Chicago Times.