The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-08
CITY PLACES ORDER
FOR MARKET SCALES
Checking Scales To Be Placed For
Use OF The Public

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An order for 60 scales has been
signed by the city. to be furnished
in the new municipal market. accord
ing to announcement Saturday. These
scales will vary in capacity from
+ the three Founders, used in the candy
4 department, to 30 pounds in the groc-
cry departments. They will be pro-
! portioned two to stall.
/ One novel feature connected with
/ the order is that two scales will
be placed in the aisles of the mar
/ ket on which customers NAV weigh
their purchases. thereby having a
check on the weights given Nv the
barket men.
md she inns ger nov i FOOD ID IN The
first place. the servant must work
from daylight until far into the eve
ming, She sleeps in little cuoby-
hole in the wall, and receives most
of her company out in the street or
at the dance hall where she goes
now and then. She must rise in time
to clean the living rooms and have
breakfast ready. at eight, She must
expect to serve lunch at midday and
bread and the substitute which
takes the place of coffee in the aft
ernoon, and have supper prepared
I by o'clock when the head of the
+ family comes home in the evening.
+ In the meanwhile, she does errands
/ or polishes UP the silver, or sews
and darns for her mistress. In most
cases she washes and irons the
clothes of the family twice every
I month, ana does other odd jobs as
p, she mas the Tune. If the girl comes
! from the country and has father
who is farmer her mistress con-
/ gtnGrS q
can furnish the family with butter
ana eggs a; reduced rates, and be
sldes the country girls nave few
er notions about their own rights
than those VINO nave worked in the
factories ana they are less likely
/ to OBJECT TO anything extra in the
way OF Washing and ironing.
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"''"'e '"' ""f'" war anu Now.
An American housewife would
think servant who would do all of
the above things without objection
treasure. The German woman looks
upon herself as the soul of generosity
and feels that she Is imposed upon
by the doing away of the customs
and rules of the good old times be-
fore the war came. Then every ser
want had to have service book
which contained the record of all the
JOBS She held from when she first
went to work at the age of fourteen
with the opinions or her various
mistresses as to whether she was
efficiont and wiling, honest or not.
Today the girl offers testimonials,
giving only the names OF her mis-
tresses and II there is break in the
record she viii say she was sick or
OFF at home on vacation and the
houSeWlie cannot of0ect. When the
latter gives testimonial, she is not
permlt'ed TO put IN anything deteri-
mental TO the character OF the ser
want ana II the gl1 mas been dis
honest she can only omit the word
honest from her statement. Before
the war a domestic mad FOR herself
only TWO sunday afternoons and eve
hinSs or during the month, but she
now leaves the house every Sunday
after Washing the noon dinner dishes,
and she wants one evening off during
lhe week. Inc old mistress VIII raise
hef hahds as she speaks OF the de-
mands OF the lmpudent minxes. and
say that they are now even asitat-
hours a day, adding that she wonders
what the world is coming to in these
afterwar times.
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Hiring servant.
The conditions OF the employment
bureaus are far different than those
of before the war Every CITY has
municipal and private places where
one can hire helm. but the service.
books have been abolished and testi-
monials only are asked for.
The supply of servants grows less
and less every wear. The girls prefer
to work in the factories and I'll nun,
bers apDlyine to the emnlovment hu-
reaus are few. Formerly one might
find a dozen girls waiting for almost
any good lob. Now there are a score
of housewives ready To nounce unon
the first that comes in. and il is Tho
girl and not the mistress who onos-
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know the number in tho family. ,,tat
kind of food she is TO have and
whether the washine viii, he son+ a,,t
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