NEW YORK'S SERVANT PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 11

NEW YORK'S SERVANT PROBLEM

Employment agencies point out one peculiar _ phase of the servant girl problem that foreign women living in New York York "Sun"' a lvriter 111 tha New "Almost without exception they refuse to take a girl of their own nationality," said the manager of an uptown ageney. 4^°.comparatively few European women living near who.are able +« - 1 when thoy first sot up housekeeping in America are willing enough to take a girl from their own, country, but tliooo who arrive poor and after a few year reach the servant girl stage of prosperity, as so many of them do, insist upon hiring help hailing from some other land. An It.ali?" * woman will employ a girl fron anywhere under the sun except Italy, the Gorman from any place_ except Germany, tho Russian from any place oxcoot Russia, and so on tßrough the list of count tries represented. . Of h course, this rule does 1 not universally hold good. Now and then we havo a customer ' who wishes to give . . ■ K some green girl ' from home a. chance, but most of them follow tho examplo set by American housokeeners. j. , 18 w .°" known, seldom want to employ native Amorican girls, on the. ground that they aro too"independent ? j ™ ni J ,ar -. Possibly the foroign women line that with them their own countrywomen aro equally solf-assertive."