MEN OR.GIRLS?

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1908, Page 4

MEN OR.GIRLS?

The New York World has interviewed a boardinghouse-keeper on a large, scale as to the respective advantages of men and girls as servants. The lady in question votes e&rly and often for the men. She says they have thoir limitations, bemg human, but the advantages are so groat a3 to put discussion out of the questioi?: - "They.' re. much superior to women. They never wear niy hats on their day off nor try on my dresses.- Neither do they entertain policemen in the kitchen. Of course, George, the parlour maid, doesn't do very w 11 on dusting the bric-a-brac, but he's a perfect jewel about not flirting with tho men boarders, and he doesn't waste hours prinking up his pompadour in the looking-glasses. "I have only mon o do alj the work in my seventeen boardinghouses, and the servant question seems as easy to mo as one of Joe Miller's puzzles with the answer- attached. Men have their limitations in certain ways as hired girls, but thoir advantages outweigh them entirely. "They do not talk back nor forward, they do not quarrel, and the grocer boy can take an order for a pound of Oolong in less than four hours' conversation. They can work cheaper, as they do not hare to dress to keep up with the fashion of the block, and they are not afraid to wear out the broom. Oh, there are lots of reasons and pjenty of men to do it, I had eighteen applicants this morning." We hear so much nowadays about the displacement of men by tho eso-called fair BO\ that it is a relief ro find that in some respects tho inferior sex is not only holding its own, but actually gaining upon the onemy. But perhaps if the lady in ques-" tion woro to adopt the same attitude to>vard her mon servants that ladies in general assume to their maids, she might find that they also would "talk baok and forward." whatever thrtt .inelegant phrase may be taken to mean.