The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1912-05-30
How About The Hired Girl,

This is hard proposition as
many married man has discovrcd
You can hire 40 men quicker than
YOU can hire one girl TO do house
work, and there are various rea-
sons for this same Of which | will
try and explain. The American born
erl desplses housework from her
infancy and has been taught by her
mother that it is degrading The
school laws compel her 60 so to
school until she is 10 and also
that she must not work while she
Is under that age aud she does not
When she Is Is she knows nothing
that . useful, her schooling has
not taught her any useful art, trade
or occupation. She has arrived Al
the age OF long skirts, picture hat
and has learned TO chew gum. gig
gle, smitk and try TO catch Eel
ler' which she usually does before
she is 30 and then tries to get
divorce before she is 30 She may
have tried 70 do honsework at some
time, but Of course she made q
failure Of 1t for she knew nothing
about 1t, and If her education iR
sufficient she may haze tried type
writing. trained nursing or sales
lady. all Of Which Jobs are over
done. The housekeeping job pays
fairly good wages and extra good foI
good cooks. but there are no extra
good cooks among the girls who
have to work for living and men
or older women get all these Jobs
at so TO $40 week aud board
Some girls gg into mills aud factor
les and sink out of sight many get |
married, make failure, get a di-
vorce or run away TO some city |
where they struggle a while and |
become lost under an assumed name
drag out forlorn life and asham-
ed to so home, The wives Of we'll
to-do people are to blame for much
Of this state OF affairs OF course
they, like the Toor girl. don't know
how TO do housework. They are
mere ornament aud greatly pufled
up and look down upon a servant
II the poor girl Is handsome they
get jealous, they wont allow the girl
o make or receive calls. they wont
ise them as Well as the slaves were
used before the war, and the re-
ult Is that no American girl viii
tand their insolent abuse and there
ore there are no American girls 20
lire TO go into their kitchen Thus
hey fall back on the migrants who
re almost az ignorant Of house
ieeping as the home grown girl
Md these newcomers soon find Jobs
Il some factory or shop or get mar
led and go to some colony Of their
eople.. II
One hundred years ago girls spun,
sove and made the cloth for their
ONES and no girl was IN 10 be !
married. unless she hade made her
while 10 years ago looms
u factories made most Of the cloth
till the girls knew how 10 use the
eedle and made their own clothes
nd for the family as well
Fifty years ago tho sewing ma
hine had been invented aud a few {
sed them, but much clothing was
lade by hand and no ready-tO-wcar
,omens clothes were on sale 10
torres, and 25 years ago the ready
o-wear shops We're beginning 70 ad
ertise children'g and women'g ,
lothcs. and to-day nearly all the Z
lothes worn by women and children
re made IN sweat shops and the !
Id sewing machines are rusting up
arret. What the girls of the next
will do for a living time
lone VIII toll Bur you can bel
our bottom dollar they wont do q
onsework 81 Clone