New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-02

A particularly interesting contribution toward
the solution Of the domestic service problem VIII
shortly be made by the Massachusetts woman
Trade Union League. The league has been making
the experiment of inducing young women from the
factories Of Fail River and elsewhere to go INTO
domestic service.
The first difficulty encountered was a feeling
often assumed to be non-existent among the women
of TODAY namely love of home. the clinging OF
mothers and daughters to the home circle Home
sickness was one of the universal results Of the
Mony g Mint Of Tead and the
insIs parting with father, mother and httle orot-
rom al his cause before securing work;
Another serious obstacle was the rejudlce against
81 N ne M55ssacbusetts Woman's Trade Union
League, "she finds herself outsider, on a lower
social scale She sees the happy and often luxuri-
oufskirts-an alien sometimes alone. sometimes
forced into constant companionship with uncon-
genial cooks, hOusemaids, etc"
The third obstacle was lack of funds The girls
were driven from their homes by the dire necessity
Of ending other work and were nearly ;. aIweys
charge of meeting trains conducting girls to their
employment or providing homes for them until en-
ployInent was secured
Finally, there was found prejudice among en-
enced in domestic work Girls we're obliged to
eR0eTfenced i' serTants I'S'''0S Oy
Low wages, long hours unaccustomed work the
disadvantages Of the country. far from church and
congenial recreation-all these SAYS the secretary.
River girls who have come TO US"
An American woman not long since returned from
abroad was heard to say that what chiefly struck
her IN the English faces she met during her walks
their resigned expression.
They ddn'1 look sad, and they didn't look
happy" she explained but they one and all had
@ it, And al % s6 fe ADDE'S GGgd' sna og RED
only state of mind possible with the English
climate"
That London may have winter season" as we'll
as summer is the wish of many Londoners whose
health and inclination do not take them to the
Riviera. Probably the ones to be most benefited
by such an arrangement would be the trades peo-
pie but there is no doubt that few good balls
would count for much and be better appreci-
ated than they in the heat of June and July.
Some Of the big West End dressmakers say that
orders have fallen off half within a year or two
Private entertaining on large scale is said to be
and South African magnates.
What will not a nice woman do when it comes to
earning money for Il cause that is near her heart?
Out in Sheboygan, Wis. TIE townswomen have been
performing some queer Stunts in order TO buv
books for their new Carnegie library building Mrs
A D. Desend. the wife of bank president, baked
bread any sold IT, one of the wea thiest women
in the place took work from stores 70 do at home
The daughter Of q rich chair manufacturer sham
coal coRsanys suaerintendent hung ont Of g ETA
gle Automobile Lamps Cleaned" ana made con
cakes and sold them. The wife of . leading lawyer
tended her neighboIs' babies. one woman pressed
her husbands trousers Another carried home
ln0 pairs Of whirs gloves and cleaned them. Still
another pushed 3 lawn mower
People who believe in "afnnit.es' argue that il is
impossible that the persons akin 70 one another
should never meet Their theory, which no one
deny TO be pretty is that the power Of thought
must bring such persons together Thoughts they
say, wander through space. like electric messages.
aHd # We mink about person we shall affect
that person IN some way. BY thoughts will
attract afinities.