Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-16
SERVANTS Ask Too
Much, Is Complaint
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work as best she can and treat you as
we'll as you treat her.
The only way TO get along is to
keep the respect Of the girls; to do that
you must know your own house and
conduct your home on perfectly fair
basis"
Mrs. T. NJ. Ballet, Of 113 South
Fortieth street, feels that the fault lies
largely with the mistress.
TOO many women do not keep in
close touch with their housework." she
said, "and as q result they cannot d.
rect their servants intelligently.
''Often It Is a case Of expecting the
girl TO do too much work. When Il
woman does not know just what there
Is 70 be done, or how much work II
will require to do Il, she finds fault with
her servant. But as matter OF fact
she is largely TO blame herself.
What girl needs to do her work
under the best conditions IS lots of kind
supervision. Not bossing, you undc-.
stand, but helpful direction that Will
enable her 10 go about things without
lot of wasted energy. The woman
VINO does tnaL IL ShNlHS ucEScII ASl
Of trouble in the end.
Il won't deny that there ore girls
who are just downright lazy, and moth
ing will change them; it's their nature.
Lazy people exist in al walks OF life.
Such people are hard to work with
wherever you find them.
But | think that with an ordinary
girl, who Is just as human and flesh
and blood as you or I, the fault Is more
often than not with the mistress.
Mrs. Robert Crime, 1880 Locust
street, holds to the opinion that the
modern domestic servant has become
too independcnt for the average person
TO get along with.
You cant blame them, either she
said. "When person knows that her
services are in demand and that she
can go out and get just as much money,
~ not more, somewhere else, she natu-
rally becomes independent, and that
ruins all discipline in the home, and
efficiency, too.
II have met this situation By dis
pensing with servants as far as pos
sible, and doing most of my own work
with the aid Of the modern electrical
devices.
THAT really Is the only way not to
have servant trouble. A washing ma :
chine never loafs and never talks back.
"If you don't want to pay exorbi-
tant wages TO your help you have to
take an inexperienced girl, and after
training her she IS as likely as not to
70 off and take a job somewhere else,
where she can get more money. NO,
cir, l think that the only way not 10
have servant trouble is not 20 have
Mr.. r. ]. Phillips, 123 South
Thirty ninth street, is one OF those
happy ladies who have no servant prob
lem.
Il nm in a particularly fortunate
position" she said, "in having servants
who have been in the family for years
! A Lucky Mistress
THE grandfather of my present cook
was n slave Of the family in Maryland.
He conceived the idea Of buying his own
freedom, and asked my grandfather Ia
allow him to 60 North for one summer
and earn enough money TO buy himself
This he did, walking all the way tc
| PENNSYLVANIA and back, and upon hi:
return he was able to make himself
free man.
''He stayed with us. however, and his
descendants have done likewise. They
have really been part Of the family and
we feel that way about II.
80 cannot speak with the authority
Of experience upon the servant problem
because there has never been any prob
lem in II for me. But / do think thai
a little intelligent kindness will go &
long way toward smoothing over any
difficulties that may arise"
Keeping perfect command OF the SIT
uation Is the key to the problem ir
the opinion OF Mrs. J. A. Seibert, 20lS
Spring Garden street, who has retained
''In the first place." said Mrs. Sci.
bert, zone must know every detail IL
connection with running the home.
| II find that unleas ! know all abou,