The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-30

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Writes. SIS much more needle than rs
Glass for cooks The lady 81 the
house IS therefore summoned TO the
bar. For every problem has It's am
swer. and IL Bridget has hers ready.
we ought to let her tell II, If only, for
the novelty OF the thing.
The Bridget in this instance is
Katie Kast, two.and-twenty. not un-
pretty and haillng from Poland three
years ago. Katie's hair is tawney
brown Her eyes are blue and inte!lt.
gent, her cheeks rosy, her back
straight. She Is Just the sort Of girl
you would snap UP from the ruck of
on employment agency.
In fact, Katie was snapped up by
u nice lady before she had been three
weeks in this country. The nice lady
ran a boarding house. Katie didn't
know English, but her arms talked
well on the dashboard and her feet
we're eloquent Of usefulness as she
padded around the house sometimes
till II at night. She got SIG month.
A HousemaId's Career
When she spoke little English, the
iceman told her where she could get
d position at SIS month. She took
1t. 1 don't blame her, but the board
Inghouse mistress talked for three
days about the ingratitude of hired
help.
Katfe's third Job was as maid of all
work in an apartment for family of
four. Katie washed, ironed, cleaned,
did the windows, waited on the table,
answered the bell hooked up her
lady's frocks, minded the youngster.
aired the dog, washed the dishes and
did part of the cooking; the lady did
The rest.
From this job Katie went to a ho-
tel as chambermaid.
She is there yet, making beds, tidy
ing up bathrooms. looking neat as a
pin, and smiling as basket of chips.
Katie" said ! as she stood twirl-
ing her keys at the end Of a string.
why do you work at hotel instead
OF in n private family?"
Why GirIG Leave Housework.
IGpIlSu MULTI III Il Uul
of eioquence was not prepared for.
Because for lot Of things. Because
| don't get interfered with when l
nm trying to cook and clean. Because
don't have to make fine dishes with
all the fine things left out. Because
get my work done some time. And
huve a good room, good food, good
wages and good--good times with tho
other girls when VIC are Off"
There was something in the way
Katie said that last that made me
wonder il servants aren't human like
other people.
"somo ladies'" continued the maid,
"are patient with O girl and have
kindness toward her mistakes. Believe
me, miss, these ladies' have no trou-
Bile getting a girl except they live far
in the country, where u girls heart
aches with the inconsistencies and lone
illness.
The DISTINGUISHED Fine Lady.
But ladies OF big houses often do
not hire a girl themselves. The butler
does 1t, or a housekeeper. who don't
take any interest In how the house Is
run.
"And often. II accidents hoppen, the
maid is blamed for something she has
nothing to do with. The butler dis
charges her.
1.-THE mistress knows nothing about
It and cares less. Her timc is spent
in parties and excitement. She doesn't
know any housekeeping. II her SER
wants went away, she could do moth
Ing. Yet she takes no interest in them
to SEQ il they are we'll treated and
she RACES when things are wasted,
broken, stolen or neglected.
"The daughters Of lady like this
are brought up TO think the work in
a house is done by magic. They don't
know how cup of coffee is made or
IN egg fried or room cleaned or
their beautiful underwear laundered.
Worst Is Vet to Come.
"And whom they have homes Of
their own they have the same trou-
Ibles as their mothers - only worse,
because girls amt willing any more
tc work from C in the morning until
II at night, with Thursday evening
and every other Sunday off, for IS
week. Help will get scarcer and
scarcer.
Girls can make more in the shops.
with all their evenings free, and be-
long to clubs and have classes aud
entertainments. don't think any
work is so hard as housework, but 1t
Is paid less than other work."
Katie turned ring round and
round her finger as she talked.
Going to be married, Katie I haz-
arded.
man. too. with store"
"Then you'll have some one to do
your houseworlS for you?"
mo, miss. It is there where tho
trouble is. will be happier without.
know cooking ind housework.
"If every woman knew cooking anu