New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
But | love himl"

per e. Bros.) are these:
But l love him!"
She admits this is no way to begin a
travel book, but what about the end
ing? Having. as she says, fed to Eng
land to escape the slings and arrows
Of an outrageous Cupid, we find her in
the very last chapter sitting on the
stone edge of horse trough Cover
flowing with water), dazedly admitting
her defeat.
"Love stays she murmurs, having
just espied her dearest friend and her
suitor-he with the light of victory in
his eye wandering arms entwined
along the crowded street New days,
new ways, pass by. Love stays"
But not only love stays. Mrs. Hale
finds that most everything else stays
also-the servant problem, cold hun
ger, suffering, old customs, ancient in
stitutions. everything
Mrs Hale is an actress and an au-
thor who went to London immediately
after the war to fill a theatrical en-
gagement, and incidentally write a
book. She found the great city labori-
ously and painfully trying to work back
to pre-war days, and she was especially
moved by the predicament of the wom-
en- formerly in domestic service who,
after d period of extraordinary pros
perity and high wages in the munition
plants, found themselves confronted by
the necessity of returning to household
work again. Naturally, there were
those who didn't like it and took vari-
Gus ways of showing their resentment.
Thus one maid in Mrs. Hale's employ
wore dirty aprons because they be-
longed to her employer and were the
garments of servitude, whereas she al
ways kept her hair remarkably neat
because her hair was her own.
Mrs. Hale deeply sympathzed with
these domestics, who hated housework
because it lessened their chances of get
ting married, and her theory as to mans
responsibility for the servant problem is
intensely interesting 1t is the man
who did it, according to the Hale doc
trine.
@"This whole servant question is en-
tircly in the hands of the masculine
SEX" she writes. at could be disposed
OF by the sturdy insstence of a man
when he marrits his wife that she must
have domestic training as well as a
pink bow in her hair There are schools
now for domestic science where a girl
could learn her trade-her business-as
she could never acquire it in the mean
home Of her father Mrs Whitelaw
Reid has established one of these schools
over here, and has found that the girl
CT the West End is just as willing to be
dean and do things beautifully in
kitchen as to be slattern and do them
crubbily
But her chances for marriage are
not so good to a man of decent estate
v hen she smiles up from the kitchen
area Gin a cap worn for the very decent
reason of keeping her hair out Of the
food) as when she lolls from her fathers
saggng window, unhappy and unkempt,
in the Mile End Road.
"When there is demand there will
he supply And if men preferred 4
good housekeeper to a pink bow, they
would get it. A girl would go into
a kitchen (if for no other reason than
to practice on somebody else's eggs with
ror new cookery recipes before she mar
RESI- if the man of the present day
would let out n reef in his furled-up
brain and admit that labor, all labor, is
noble and holy. But he, too. feels the
ignominy of personal service. The
shadow of serfdom, faint though it may
be, still rerders the employees within a