Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-03-09
MUST CALL HER MISS
Unless Willing to Have Manners
Branded as PaSse.
Familiarity of Past on Slight Ac-
qusintance Must Cease Unless
One Wishes to Advertise AS
Being Out of Swim.

Chicago.-1f you call her Mary o.
Minnie or Olga-refeETing to the
young woman who puts your meal
before you and keeps your home il
Order-tt IS time to stop.
Rereafterit is be Miss Jones OF
Miss O'Brien or Miss Olson-that is
unless you are willing to have youl
manners branded as hopelessly passe
noG to say de trop. The familiarity
! of the past ON five minutes acquailt
! ance, or no acquaintance, must cease
unless you wish to advertise that
! you are totally out of the swim. Sur.
| names alone are TO be used in order.
! ing the affairs of the household ii
! the future, and you might as well be-
! gin rehearsing now.
For fashion has so ordered, and, al
| though there was the usual storm of
| protest, ridicule and revolt among the
housewives of Chicago as the decree
circulated, It is probable they will
get into line aa they always do.
Furthermore, the discussion deveI-
oped the fact that the whole servant
problem and the attitude mistress
should have towar1 maid is bound ap
in the question. Strong advocates
were found for complete change IN
methods of administering the Amer
lean household, which shall include.
abolition of the custom OF having. SER
wants live on the premises, and the
usual attitude toward servants in.
America was declared totally undemo-
cratic.
Call Minnie by her last name?
Let's see what it is. o., yes, Moriarty.
Just to show you how ridiculous it
all is will Just try it, said South
side clubwoman who lives In the Uni
versfty of Chicago neighborhood. She
was selected because Miss Sophonis-
ba Breckenridge, instructor in house
hold administration at the university,
had said, in discussing the matter,
that the young women who do the
household work Of that neighborhood
are queens among women who earn
their own living and the titIlar mis-
tresses Of the homes are meek and
submissive before them.
Miss Moriarty, oh Miss Moriarty,"
called the South side woman, and
after an appreciate interval a blue
eyed daughter of Ireland put her head
through the door and asked in a puz-
zled voice: Were you a-callinr of me,
NUM-"
Minnie mean Miss Moriarty-
would you rather be called by your
first or your last manner"
ut sounds sort of funny to- have
you call me that way after sayin'
Minnie so long" said the girl.
'"There're some people, though, that
fresh grocery boy and then the peo-
pie you have here, and your husband,
TOO, mum. I'd rather have them call
me by my last name
4 have always called my house
keeper by her last name, so If that is
the requirement I am strictly up to
date" said Mrs Raymond Robins,
who conducted the Investigations for
the New York Association for House
hold Research, and whose report on
the employment Of domestic servants
was used as a basis for legislation in
that state.
1T is because the attitude toward
household employees has been so en-
tirely undemocratic that It has been
next to impossible to get girl of
competence and spirit to go into do
nestle service. know many girls
who have refused good wages and
many material comforts to work des-
perately hard at poor wages in
shop because they wanted home and
the Sundays and evenings and Satur-
day afternoons for themselves, which