DOMESTIC WORK.
Tlie increasing number of girls who confess to a dislike for, and indeed refuse to engage in, any sort of domestic service is (says Marie Blanche in Good Health) causing much ti'ouble to the ■present-day housewife. The modern girl of humble parentage hates domestic work. The slavery of sweeping and dusting and cooking and bedmaking is clearly an abomination to her. She will have none of it. Far rather would she be cooped up in a desk of a shop or stuffy office with the eternal monotony of accounts, ledgers, and typewriting, or the fatigue of standing all day behind a counter measuring off yards, of ribbon and tape and so forth to exactirg customers, if at the end of all those hours she has the evenings to herself and can keep her hands unsoiled by what she rather scornfully describes as menial work. Menial work, forsooth! Is not all work honourable if done with honourable purpose?
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1913, Page 3
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159DOMESTIC WORK. Northern Advocate, 22 August 1913, Page 3
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