Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-26
SERVANT QUESTION AGAIN.

letter is printed on this page or EVERY
Evening, comments lucidly on an edi-
torial on the house servant question
which appeared in these columns on
Tuesday last. Lack Of organization,
she rightly declares. is responsible for
much of the inef'iciency and lack of
interest in the house work, and she
urges women who may be employers
of helpers in the home to engage their
services with other housekeepers in
order TO study the problem from the
servants angle.
II is quite true, as she intimates,
that the attitude of the front stairs to-
wards the back. of the parlor to the
kitchen win have to be materially
changed before women will elect to
become house workers in preference
to many other activities that are now
open TO them.
II is equally true that the lot OF the
servant in the average home is one
of almost complete isolation from the
rest of the household with no place
To entertain her callers or see her
| friends outside the often overheated.
uncomfortable kitchen. Everyone who
properly appraises the spirit of the
American woman must come TO the
realization that servants, indoors or
out, will not be treated as pieces Of
machinery, nor have constantly inn
pressed on their minds that they are
of unfortunate and inferior clay 20
the head of the house. The attitude
o; supreme superiority must be elimi-
mated before young women will un-
sertake the important task OF serving
in the homes and kitchens of their
more fortunate sisters. Even England
has come to a realization of this big
fact, and the hitherto humble, servile
workers in the homes, especially in
the big domestic establishments, have
ceased to permit themselves to be re-
garded as having been born 10 the
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they must be rejoiced at the oppor-
, tunity to be regarded as vastly infer
ior to the front of the house and head
! of the family, and treated according
ly. Thir was one of the lessons born
; in the trenches Of the terrible war
that all men are brethren, and that
! il is not entirely adaptability Of the
, one to rise to higher social or business
= heights than the other that determines
E his or her real status, his value to tbs
3 community, which probably is estimst
= ed best by the degree OF willingness
= and earnesiness he expresses in per
= forming whatever tasks he under
E takes.
e Every one may recall numerous in
a stances in which the old family helpe
e is JOY and delight 10 every menbe
O of the family, and. OF all friend
@ and visitors, and If he will just con
= slider a minute he will also bring t
a, mind the fact that the mistress o
II the employer Of such helper mani
!; tests good breeding at all times an
Il practices the precepts of the Golde
Ie Rule in her relations with those VIII
s aid her in making the house res
4. home-a house beautiful in atmos
i phere of love and cooperation ths
g. pervades il.
Of The crying need of the moment
N all our relations one with anoths
A. social or commercials the moi
st general acceptance of the Golde
40 Rule. We must base all of our tram
q actions on those inspired teachings
re we wish 10 advance and prosper al
" develop either individually or natioi
nd ally.
T. II may be well admitted that Il
as duties OF the head of the home in til
UT connection viii appear monstrous. Z
"a; they will find the material presents
np for such training. as is necessary,
ne mostly raw and not infrequently T
a. fleets the lack of opportunity offer
an for earlier and proper disciplining.
he However. at this moment there a
he hundreds OF women who are urgent
tn needing employment TO sustain ther
selves while there is abundant wo
lro offered IN homes, and TO meet {
ur emergencies both the maid and M
IS: iress should begin now 10 try and U
1T derstand each ether bettor, and TO (
no labiinf more cordial relations as ei
,sr pioyer and cmployc, until respon
,ni baity and ioye for her wori. and
he appreciation of the houscnoiders mo
i've tho burden of housework light II
sut keep ali tempers CHEEKY and bright
Ihe Organization OF domestic seryai