Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-05-14
|NO FLUNKEYS IN GERMANY
FEUDAL LOYALTY or SERVANTS IS MARKED CHARACTERISTIC
Cook Win Be Delighted to Make a Blouse for His Master, and the Nurse Will Gladly Turn Out in tho Dining Room, if Need Be.

BERLIN, May l3.-The feudai loyalty of German servants is their distinguish.
 ing trait, just as Aunkeyism is that of
 the English. There is, therefore, vast difference between these two. They are, as it were, two extremes, the English
 being pompous, aristocratic sort of household fixture, the German a demo. cratic family, underlying whose motto might be that royal of notices, "Ich. dien ''-"I serve.''
 The wife of a German diplomat who had an appointment at London had this difference in service impressed upon her. Not knowing English ways, she used to make the mistake at first of asking a servant to do what she wanted done in stead of what the servant had engaged to do; but she sono found that the first housemaid would rather leave than fill matchbox it was second housamid s place to do; and what surprised her most was to find that her English friends sympathized with the housemaid and not with her.
 "We believe in everyone minding his own business" they said.
 German Servants Record
 In most German households there is no such thing as the strict division of labor insisted on here. Your cook will be delighted to make blouse for you, and your nurse will turn out in the dining room, while your chamber maid will take the child for an airing, if you order it SO. They are more human in their relation to their employers. The English servant fixes a gulf between herself and the most democratic mis- tress. The German brings her intimate joys and sorrows to good Herrschaft, and expects their sympathy.
 When a girl has bad luck and en- gages with bad Herrschaft, she is worse off than in England, because she is more in the power of her employers and of the police than she would be there. She has to have Dienstbuch, an official book in which her age and appearance are registered. In this book her employers write her char. acter It is under the control of the police, and has to be shown to them when she leaves and when she enters situation. It is hardly necessary to say that when a girl does anything bad and her employers record it in the book, the book gets "lost." Then the police in terferc and make it extremely disagree able for the girl.
 Public Registry Without Fees
 There is no give-and-take personal character in Germany. Ladies do not ice the last lady with whom a girl has ived They advertise, or they go to ! registry office, where servants are waiting to be engaged. In Berlin every .hird house seems to be registry of ice, and you hear as many complaints if the people who keep them as you lear here. So the government has set p large public registry in Charlotten- 'urg, where both sides can get what hey want without paying fees.
 Wages are much lower in Germany han in other leading countries. Some ears ago one could get good cook UT t'Oii Voo to POut Dul tHoSc udyS dTc '. ast. Now you hear of general serv mt getting from $50 to $6O and good lain cook from $75 upwards. These {, re servants who would get from $l10 0 $150 in England and more in Amer "a. But the wages of German servants , re supplemented at Christmas time y system of tips and presents that !, , neither one of free gift nor of busi- esslike payment. Germans groan un- 1. CT it, but every nation knows how hard is to depart from one of those tradi- onal, indefinite customs.
 German servants now expect to get
 quarter of their wages in money and resents at Christmas. House linen is ften given, because a German girl in twice is always saving with might and ain for her wedding outfit In Ger any the bride buys both furniture and nen and in the poorer classes about