The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

ing OF many another woman. The hus-
band does not heed the mood Of stenog-
rapher or clerk because he knows either
will think twice before throwing up
good situation in a fit of petulance and
turn himself or herself out into the
world to look up another job.
1 was in a magazine Office the other
day, when a stenographer brought to
the editor a letter she had been ordered
to write.
This won't do at allr' was the deci-
sion of the chief after reading 1t. There
are four mistakes. m half a page. You
have spelled word wrong and''-strlk-
ing the envelope with his finger-"you
have addressed it to Maryland, Vir-
ginia'! Take it back and be more care
fulF'
The girl colored to the eyes. took the
discarded letter with a word of humble
apology and went back to her desk,
Whereupon / remarked to the editor:
IF your wife were to speak to her cook
in that way, she would have to get her
own breakfast tomorrow. The cook
would leave on the spotr'
Probably" smiling and cool. 1--WE
train our employees differently And
this with impressive significance-''t that
girl knows that If che throws up her
job for any such reason she will find it
hard to get another
l said You have put your finger
upon the weak spot in our domestic ma
chinery'
Until we housemothers, as an order.
are true to one another, there is no
hope of stability in domestic service
/ am moved to write again upon this
subject-so full of vital and practical
import to employer and employed-by a
food of letters from the latter class
that seem to demand respectful atten-
ton. say respectful" and with in
tention. The person, be it man or wom-
an, who takes my money in return for
work honestly dbne is as respectable in
his or her position as am in mine Let
me remark in this connection that in
over half century of active house
wifery have had but two instances of
impertinent speech directed to myself.
In engaging an employe / say: II can
not keep any one in my employ who
must be scolded. I ask no one to speak
more respectfully to me than / speak
to him or to her." And I mean. lust
what I say.
Pardon the personal a1lusion! How
wen the principle has worked 1 have
said.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Now for our batch of letters. or as
many of them as We have room for in
our contracted Corner.
Until their superiors in education and
social station cease to deprecate the quiet
work of the household as .'belittling" and
menial." can we expect young women
who must earn their living to make volun-
tary choice of 1t?
quote the editors question, and I must
say that it hits the nail on the head,
But permit one who has had experience
to differ as regards superiority In educa-
tion. In the past have done housework
for ten years. and 1 found that the more
educated my employers were the better
they treated me. and in one instance,
where the members Of the. family were all
highly educated. I was made one Of
them" literally Here / must add that
my own education is fairly good, and
having had access to some of the best
books published. am not entirely ignorant
upon some subjects I came from Sweden
when very young, and took up studies In
the English grammar. ETC.. as soon as able
70 speak the language. And let me tell
you right here that some of the natives
yea, goodly number OF them--do not know
very much more about the English gram
mar than did the day / landed
This statement includes the rich as we'll
as the poor. employers and employed One
young, pretty girl whom l met in one of
our American cities could not read one
word. Yes. she was an ''American' OF
course, she could not write. either When
landed / had at least a fair krowleeres
OF my own language. So sthe nativess