DOMESTIC HELPS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13107, 22 April 1903, Page 9

DOMESTIC HELPS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have boon, a domestic help for many years, and have been much interested in tho discussion which lw,s taken place- in your columns an this question recently. If yon will kindly spare me space, I think I can solve the difficulty in connection with this most important matter better than any of your previous correspondents. I will simply state the relations that exist between my employer and myself. I begin work at 7 -a.ra. ;Vwo have breakfast at eight o’clock, lunch at twelve, o’clock, and at 1 p.m. I am free until 4 p.m. . We have dinner at 6 p.m., and after 7 p.m. I am Leo until nine. After nine I have half an houror an hour’s work, as the ease, may be. I get half a day during tire week and half a day on Sunday, and I really do not see why all in my position cannot be. treated, as I am. A little tact and give-and-take on the part of mistresses and domestics, I am .sure, would bring about -a. better state of things flTan exists at present. As long as girls have to. work all hours and have little or no time to call their own, no girl will enter domestic - service if slio can help it. lam sure Mr Ell and other humane legislators like himself could frame some law and get it put on the Statute Book that would be for the benefit of the mistresses as well a,s the girls. I hope ho will do so during the coming session, and acid more laurels to those, ho has already won. Ko did a. great deal for the. mas'ses in his fight for unimproved values, -and I sincerely hope he will do a.s much, for us.—l am, etc., A DOMESTIC HELP.