The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-30

wages Is because the demand exceeds
the supply, and women are willing to
pay almost anything to get someone in
the kitchen.
1t is a serious thing In many house
holds to be without servants; many
man objects to his wife working in
the kitchen and attending to many 9TH
er duties besides. One thing is GER
tain, no woman can be in the kitchen
and do other things. You cannot be a
cook and pretend to be anything else.
Most of the women who come over
here to be house servants are unskill-
ed, and they expect to be as we'll paid
While they are learning and practicing
on some innocent family as after they
have become competent. And even if,
for instance, 5000 club women should
band themselves together not to pay
Well for incompetent help, it would not
mend matters any, as there are always
lots of other women who will take
these green girls and pay them good
wages. SO great is their need. The
result would simply be that the club
women would be without servants.
AS for serving a five-course dinner
without rising from the table and get
ting ones husband to wash the dishes,
that makes a good story, but it is nei-
Their practical nor Is it humane. A
five-course dinner means lots of dishes
to wash, and they must be washed just
when ones husband sits down to smoke
after dinner, and expects the society
of his wife. and should have it. If he
washes the dishes without murmuring,
he is a remarkable husband; too re-
markable. Men in the kitchen with
aprons on are not pleasant sight, and
after they have worked hard all day
should not be expected to do domestic
| work. If a woman is obliged to go into
the kitchen, that is one thing, but sure
| ly neither men, women nor children do
| kitchen work for pleasure. 1t is the
secret of perpetual motion, for 1t is
never done, and when one has finished
with one meal it is almost time for
| another. 1t is also an idle dream to
| imagine that club women can influence
| manufactures not to employ women;
and the talk of boycotting those who do
| so is laughable. If every woman in
J the country should join in the effort
| to solve the servant problem, something
might be done, but undertaken by few
| it would only result in the distress of
| those concerned.
Mrs. G.. A. Dibble intends to enter
! tain the club women Of the Fourth dis
| trict at her house in about ten days.
| 1t was her intention to do this last
| year, but the illness of friends prevent
! ed, and she now hopes to carry out the
| intention she has long had to have
| the women met socially and talk over
matters Of interest. II women ever in
| tend to cooperate and work together
| for the common good, there must be
| more Of these meetings, and they must
learn to know each other and talk
| about what Is to their interests in a
| closer manner than is possible at a
| public meeting. The trouble with all
| that club women undertake is that they
| see each other so seldom, and then in
a semi-public way. that many of the
! good things they might accomplish are
| left undone for want of time Mrs.
Dibble, who has made a most able and
! efficient district president, realizes the
| handicaps from which club women suf-
fer. and intends to do all In her power
to bring them together for the mu-
/ tual good Of all concerned.
| st. Paul women did not take very
! kindly to Ghosts" the terrible Ibsen
| play which Mary Shave has put on
IN St Paul for a week. They went in
| sort of shamefaced way and did not
| care to admit in some instances that
! they had seen 1t. For it is an awful
| story of sin and its consequences, UNI
| pleasant to behold or to read about.