Arizona republican., 1920-05-05
By Frederic J. Haskin

NEW YORk-One of the mos popular and successful getrch- quick enterprises in New York today is the domestic service agency Agencies arc everywhere, in spite of the much la mented scarcity of servants-agencies for every nationality and color, SUD- plying everything from a Japanese butler to a Swedish nursery maid.
 Gradually. the entire population ap- pears to be going into the domestic service business Every day, one hears someone who has thrown up a per fectly good job to take up the more renlunerative occupation of servant scouting. of someone who has added domestic service department to his delicatessen store or tailor shop, while the occupants of nearly every apart ment house must put up with the CT rattle services of a janitor who spends most of his time in rounding up ac- quaintanceS who are willing to espouse domestic service long enough for him to collect his commission.
 It is q matter of doing a small busi- ness at a large profit, so that it IS not remarkable that so many people find it attractive. Householders have become reconciIed to the fact that they must pay whatever is required of them. and usually offer slight resist ance. Indeed, many householders have become so utterly cowed by the diff
  York that they are prepared to offer large bonuses to persons who will help them to obtain a really efficient ser want. These bonuses of course. are in addition to the usual commission charge of ten dollars per servant. The agencies also collect a registration fee from the servant, so you can about figure what the profit for one day of fairly good scouting would be.
 Proprietor Figures Profits
 In many agencies indeed. there ap- pears to be little work for &the pro- prietor to do but to figure up and col feet his fees. He canvasses various districts for domestic help, it. is true. but after he is fairly well-known the domesticS come to him for registra- . ton. The employers of servants are required to do the same. The day when cooks and waitresses came to you to apply for a job in your house. p,oyer and employe meet in the of flee of the agency and fight the hat tie of prospective employment in one corner, while the agent retires to read a novel, play solitaire. or otherwise occupy his abundant leisure. In the case of a delicatessen store, he sells groceries retiring only at thes hour of victory or defeat as the case may be.
 After making a tour of several q agencies. one begins to wonder # lhe q fficulties in obtaining and keeping domestic servants are not in part due to the attitude of the agents. which 5n many cases is one of studied inso- lence They never lost an opportun- ity to tell their customers in the pres ence of a row of waiting domesties that the servant scarcity is so acute that the servants have the upper hand now; that people must resign themselves to paving any price for domestic help. and that the help itself must be elaborately accon4ro odated if it is to remain where it is put.
 After such a l1arssDg que, Gne woman who wanted q butlor and cook for country house, the other day. was in formed by two applicants. presented l,x sl4e agent, tEat if tile1 rar1e they woJia have 60 have two hours oi. each day to rlaf golf, and that sl oGa~ would haEc to .s Tt their disnesal whenever they wished to go back and forth from town. When the woman demurred ag against the golf the butler said:
 Golf for she Butler
 Well, you said there was q golf