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138 oPEisr council.
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To the ^Editor of the English Woman's Jo...
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write on the outer cover , * servant ' s "box . ' A _numler of similar notes would be in the box , endorsed ' cook , ' ' housemaid , ' there ' kitchen- subscribers maid , ' ' parlor Then -maid /
' butler , ' ' footman , ' etc ., all placed or sent by . , I cover about suppose endorsed to , you tradespeop want with le a the , servant etc special ., you : instead go quality to of the or app office office lying , look to are your into in the friends search box , , of find going j and a *
, you troublesome thus have as events little trouble of housekeep as you ing . can A possibl servant y have so found in one would of _* be the almost most sure to be good and worthy ; for no one would thus volunteer a character for
an " inefficient It would be or a unworth great encouragement y person . to servants , for though none but subas scribers well ; could and _* the have ' Eng access lish to Woman the ! box ' s , Journal the subscribers ' would not ' friends lose b would y being benefit better in
known and of wider influence . N " o books need be kept ; no one employed the matter ; and the only expense would be the mere box . " easy with If , present then and , verv Madam it to feasible your , you consideration ; can and make I hop any e . that The good it scheme may out be of strikes taken "this me proposition up as and being carried , simp I here out not le - , ,
the as I least feel certain so the Journal many peop itself le would which be would the benefitters thus strike thereb out another y . Perhaps rootlet of influence and usefulness , ,
. I remain , Yours Madam , faithfull very y ,
27 _j Leinster Square _^ Bayswater . E . _Lintoit .
138 Opeisr Council.
138 _oPEisr council .
To The ^Editor Of The English Woman's Jo...
To the _^ Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal . The Scabcity of good Maid Servants .
I find Madam to , my surprisemany ladies deny that there is any want
whatto competent scarcity ever dress of emp , of mutton housemaid loyment work , chop when for under women under , we twelve know sixteen . " For pounds by pounds how experience a , " year say and , or they even that a , cook at " we that can who cannot there rate knows of be wages get how any a
they assert irls much are th a at not prefer seamstresses easy - being to find , ; apprenticed P are " a _"And miserable to how a dressmaker , " race again , , when inquire to it going is others well int known , o " domestic can , th you at g
servicealthough servants are so well paid , and made so comfortable and , happy ? " must maintainstill
I admit that there is truth in both observations , yet , that will there is a endeavor want of emp to loyment show how for these women . arentlcontradictory facts
I be reconciled now and what it is . that occasions app so great y a scarcity of servants may . Let us note , well the circumstances . First be it observed that there will not take untrained irl
is out no of lack their of bad fathers servants ' cottages . Gentlefolks , and employ them as domestics ; if raw they g _did s , " they but then would these find it girls easy would "to fill their be almost houses useless at a very , and low then would rate that of break remuneration twic shoul e the d ,
_yalue of their wages in crockery . It is necessary , girls , before and have they learnt enter their the business service of elsewhere gentlemen and , have it is passed this apprenticeshi an apprenticeshi p that p , ;
year raises while their value a trained so much one , cannot for a raw be had girl for may less be than hired ten for pounds three pounds . Let it a
their tlemen be obs , erved ' s service also are , , that usuall that they servants are well are h to generall fed enable , well y them cared made if for very careful in comfortable sickness , to provide , and in _^ gen that de- - wages y enoug
cently for their old age , Yet in spite of these advantages , , girls entering on
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/66/
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