The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-05
Cook Is Stronger On Rag Than Rasout

So into the kitchen went hostess.
often followed By one or more guests.
Dinner was cOoked-wcll-cooke and
weli-served-and. in the words q TIE
bush league journalist. q pleasant
time was had by ALL It's very easy
10 do il II you have %.
This servant shortage is typical OF
the shortage in every city In the coun-
try. What has caused NJ First OF all.
women servants went into war work
from the beginning; used TO a life OF
drudgery, they were among the first
to escape it TO make munitions. fat
pay checks and work eight hours a
day. Having tasted of the gIories OF
the eight-hour day and the swollen
purse they don't want to go back to
the kitchen and be at the beck and call
of another woman for as many hours
a day as that woman wants to use
them.
Next is emigration. II used TO be
N4dL AAAAblAE dAAOh hAlNu UP AAH gaps IA
servants ranks made by marriage and
escape to other occupations. But now
there is practically no immigration
and in it's place has come emigration.
Said a woman employment agent the
other day: "All the SwedeB, the Irish,
even the German servant girls are go
ing back. They have been separated
from their people for years because Of
the war. They have had good wages
and have saved their money in a great
many cases. Now they are going back
TO see their families, to help them II
they have suffered by the war. There
are no 'greenhorns' TO Ill their places.
They are not coming over except a
few now and then. And those girls.
greenhorns. find Jobs before they're Of
the steamer and get at least SO q
week"
The only sort Of domestic help now
flowing into this part OF the country.
according 70 this woman. r. the south
ern negro. Brought north By the war,
the negro Iaborer Is now Joined b. his
family. The women go IN for domestic
service; sometimes they make good
servants. sometimes they don't II all
depends on their previous life and
training. But this employment agent
declared that having once located in a
good position this new help stuck fast
to its job.
German servant girls began going
back to the FatherIand at the time the
United States declared war on Ger
many.
Not only Germans, Swedes and Irish
have returned, but many Italians, en-
gagged in domestic service, particular
ly in institutions, have retur4sd.
Polish girls have also gone back. And
until the tide Of immigration over
whelms the tide Of emigration the
servant problem In America is likely
10 be an acute one.
An Optimistic Prediction.
It is predicted. however. that the
ide will turn. Some optimist, quoted
he other day IN New York newspa-
per, declared the United States would
shortly have all the domestic hep IL
wanted; that, indeed. the day Of the
hired girl" was coming back.
The electric washing machine f. one
1f the greatest boOns the housewife
vas ever blessed with. Another Is the
electric vacuum cleaner; another the
electric iron; another the electric
iishwasher. Ever day there is a new
invention to tighten works every day
he actual business Of living is being
made more simple. The young couple
If today live in an apartments the
woman does her own work-andJdoes
t easily. A few years ago this same
couple would have had to have q
louse, one servant or possibly two.
rhe day will probably come when we
viii all get back to the simple life
Electricity helping and the domestic
ervant shall roam tt> earth no mora