DOMESTIC HELPS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 14285, 1 February 1907, Page 3

DOMESTIC HELPS.

. TO THE EDITOB. ! Sir.—Among the poor, the common I people, there are few as deeply wronged ■by society as the household “ slavey.” Tiie common etiquette which every selfrespecting father and mother teach their children to study, when speaking to their acquaintances, is not extended to the poor maid-of-all-work, and '' please ” and “ thank you ” are words she seldom or never heaps. She is usually treated by her employers as though she had no eoul of her own, and i no heritage in common with the rest of i her fellow-creatures. She is told to do things in a tone of arrogant authority I and disdain, and if she can ever summon up courage to ask for a few hours of liberty. she is informed that, her morals are in danger, and that she must give , up this habit off gadding about at all | hours of the night. Even her would- ! be champions seldom, credit her with i the possession of intellectual faculties, ! and seem to imagine that her sole ami bicion in life is to capture a young I man, and eventually marry him. ' Surely a more maligned and socially ostracised human being it would be difficult to imagine.—l am, etc., NYM.