SERVANTS' RIGHTS.
"Mary, I want you to come shopping with nic this morning • there will be several parcels to carry home," "Excuse me, mum, but are you a:ware that it has been decided in a court of law that to cairy parcels for her ..mistress is not part of a servant's work?" Little Conversations such as this will take place in mtmy London suburban villas in the future if Bhe-who-niUßt-be-obcyed — otherwise the omnipotent "general"— cares to exercise her rights. For a servant who refused to carry her vmployer'B packages, and was therefore dismissed, has been awarded 16b wages in lieu of. notice. "It is a very dffiiculfc point,"' said Lady Muir-Mackenzie to a Daily Chronicle representative, "but I do not think thatonccan define a servant's dutioßwith such, exactitude. You cannot lay down a hard and fast rule ahd say a servant should do this and should not do that. If there were more of the give-and-take spirit on both sides such disputes would be avoided." "I think it would be most unreasonable of a maid to refuse to carry her mistress's parcels," said Lady Randolph Churchill. "A proper maid would carry them as a matter of course if she accompanied her mistress while shopping."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 12
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204SERVANTS' RIGHTS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 12
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