The Detroit times., 1910-06-08
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Situation More Acute Thar ~
This Summer, High Wages yailu 4
q Lure-Employmsnt 1uzsaur
Delugsd With Applics&isas.
Summer Resorts, Which usuSI
Drain City Of Domestic Help, Tin1
Source Of supply Barren.

~She's lazy. breaks dishes fastee
than can buy them. burns the meat
and scarcely ever cooks decent meal
or lays the table properly. won't do -
bit Of washing and has every THUR
day and Saturday afternoon and evoo
ing OF. for all OF which ! pay Is por
week." was the exasperated cumming
up Of North Woodward housswife.
relating her troubles with domestic
help.
1T certainly IS something nerces
said q younger woman who ho4
scarcely outgrown her slAngy COLLEGE
days In the Ave years of her married
life. Let me tell you my latest e.
perience. For weeks have been with
out help of any kind. although have
had my application filed In every in-'
telligence once In the city. answered
ads by the Wholesale and kept a
'ad' OF my own In every paper tor ~
girl to do general housework. Finally
last week along came a colored GIRL
clean and smart looking and with -
cellent references She seemed to like
me and the house. after she looked IN
all over, and agreed to come. Just
as she was leaving l said to her Nov.
you will surely come Monday morn-s
ing? To which she replied, oh. yes
unless. Of course. / get better place.
Can you beat that? However. swal~
lowed It whole and smiling sweetsy
said trusted that she would not md
anything that suited her any better.
Alas and alack, she did. and day
later she 'phoned me that she was
sorry to disappoint me, but she had
secured better place. I phoned one
of the intelligence offices this morning
hoping for q ray OF hope. but the
woman in charge told me there were
over 200 applications ahead of mine.
I have decided to close up the house
and take the children somewhere for
situation will be better In the fall.
well, my dear. Just because onI
girl refuses to 20 to our summer Cot
ltage we have to stay IN the city Ql4
year" said benignlookino, whit3
haired member OF the group. In ~
my 40 years of housekeeping ! ney~f'
knew the help problem so dimcult,
she continued, land dare not DO any
thing that will cause Julie TO leave
My husband says l am just . plumb
fool to let the cook interfere with my
personal wishes, but OF course he hae
never faced a girlless kitchen on not
day with a large and hungry family
expecting an appetizing supper just
the same, or he might be more sympA
thetic."
Inquiry at various intelligence omce1
bore out the above conversation. DO.
nestle help Is noticeable by fts alb
sence In Detroit today. Even washer
women are scarce and It Is fact that
many Detroit housewives got through
their spring housekeeping with male
help secured from the various mis-
sions. The highest wages are offered
domestic help and many unusual priv
ileges given them and yet no lure -
sufficient to bring them forth. Fac
tories, laundries and other similar IN
stitutions are all in dire straits Tor
both male and female help.
I'VE are no longer taking family
washings and would drop the nat
work were It not an accommodation
to our old patrons, simply because
we cannot get competent help" said
member OF the Crawford Laundry
Co. I'VE are Offering double the
wages formerly paid to ironers and
handlers of fancy washing. and yet II
10 almost impossible to get any kind
OF competent help. A week or so ago
we advertised for a switchboard teie-
phone operator and had over 100 ap-
plicants and tried over 25 before we
got one who could even say Number
intelligently. yet, when We offered the
rejected girls work In the laundry at
three times the wages OF tn phone
operator they looked at US In scorn
and haughtily declined"
The scarcity OF help at this season
OF the year in a city is frequently ex-
planned by the opening Of the summer
resorts and the fact that girls like TO
20 to summer hotels for the season.
iured by the high wages. prospect OK
tips and change Of scene. This year.
however. the intelligence ofhces say
they have genuine cry for help"
from the summer resorts. and boats
and that there is just as marked
scarcity IN this direction as In the
city homes.
"One cannot even get q seamstress
this year." declared one weil-knovn
Detroit woman.