The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-20
WHY DOMESTIC SERVICE is DIS
LIKED

Hero are some of the replies received:
III ladies would only give girls better
rooms kinder treatment and warmer bcds
ana let them live Independently. more girls
would do housework.
II went into a factory because wlsneu
to be treated like human being"
Tho reason ! won't do housework is he
cause will not be treated like halt slave
end always nobody
II love homework, but, like a host OF
ether girls, refuse to do It Under present
conditions
housework, because a girl who does It Is
always looked upon as a kitchen drudge, A.
ways on duty and seldom treated justly
II am treated better In the factory Ia
every way. and, besides, ! am no longer
obliged To entertain I'm the kitchen or re
ccive my friends at the back door, since /
can ll,C at home with my own people"
While he sUO replies do not srem TO indi-
cate any iusistenCe on the pnrt OF servants
that they be regarded as members of the
family, there are signs that the social d'S-
tiuctions inevitably accouiTcny such cm.
rloyment lriit9te these OF American birth
In particular.
"SCARCITY Is UNPRECEDENrED,'
In this connection the statements made
by the heads OF the oldest employment
agencies in the metropolis furnish asser
lions that may not be palntable to the en-
( rloyers who are complaining OF their ina
| bnity TO secure satisfactory "hel," Nine
Jsqufn said:
For tblrty-two years l have been in the
business OF supplying families with serv
| ants Of an classes. The scarcity OF good
| servants Is unprecedented, still | personally
| ran not say that wages are higher thar
| ever.
"The ratio OF servants has not kept pac,
with the Increase III population. II Is
| fact that a great many persons are now liv
/ Ing IN apartments and getting along Witf
/ Que or two servants where they used I,
! have three or four. grent many 0thert
have gotten so tired Of trying TO get salts
/ factory servants that they nave gone e
the new hotels.
There is just as much work for tho serv
/ ant who works IN an apartment as there
! was for the servant who worked IN Il house
/ Notwithstanding that there are no stair
! to consider. Servants rooms In modern
| mats and apartment houses are smaller
| than before and less comfortable. IN
! Kitchens are smaller and there rs no room
| for the girls to receive their company.
but above and beyond all II seems Z,
! me that the servants are not treated %
! wei "a they used 10 he M0re.and more u
demanded OF them. They are kept up late
at night aud have 70 be up just as early II
the morning as they did twenty year
ago.
! GETTING PLACES IN RESTAURANTS
More and more girls are getting siiua
tions IN hotels and restaurants. INC hour
are fewer. the wages higher and the op
portunitles FOR getting grotuities are great
er While these girls have TO pay room
rent somewhere aud car fare 70 aud iron
their work many Of them club t0gcthe
and keep their living expenses down 10
surprsingly low figure.
out IN California the paucity of the sup
ply of servants is SO great that move
Il inent has been started looking 20 the modl
t.cotion Of the Chinese exclusion law 80
10 permit the importation OF 1VU,uOO Chl
nese cooks and domestic servants.
In Chicago an eflcrt Is being made to cd
ucgte and socially elevate servants with
ciude their departure into other vocations
IKE factory v Ork