Domestic Servants and Mistresses

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 5056, 31 December 1887, Page 4

Domestic Servants and Mistresses

Miss Grace Wold S >|>er Ivm a sensible paper in the Family Magazine on the improvem. Nt uf domestic service. The article wun the pm: in n recent competition s*.a< i; .<-'l *>y l^«' o'itor. While admit tirii thit thuro ; much to be dune in the w;iy of ref.i-n-.u-; t.'ie servant*, Miss Sop t •' I. inn.: cm «h I > any that reform is waning nU>- \ n:uiy mistrrsses. A chauo * cii ;ti -u>i>t ammi" the employers, t' ' ' '<3 would soon pro lucu ach "^^^^^^luct of th«- '* Ie ia > . t0 ( *° grad ••:.■' ~^^^^^^T^ ovvice, its^^T^^jj^^^^H^H^ r wll ° read I ■» '^^^^^^^^^^^^HL He: .i^HiH^^^BP -; divi r^m-^^^^^ :icr of . a d'^fl^B ~* . While t Vt : >T^W >'■'"' ■■'■o dignity of |. ' laborers in a j 0 ■ A . '• will be elova,' <& "1S r>l g aiutu as a business h, -«<id respected. If tho mistress wouK- \i re ncr servants as her husband in trado Jtires his clerks, t'io relations befc»?<eisn the manager of the hou3e and tlio Ji» v orer3 would bo on 'ho &.'>unc basis of political •jcnnoiny, and not a social or sen- ♦ •'in« M f<-otini'. As in other fields of ibor, thorough training would be expected, and the girl who aspires to service would learn her profession as tho bookkeeper learns to keep accounts. In order to maintain a contented household, and to encourage the best effor's of her servants, the mißtreas would aim to be impartial, kind, and considerate, aa the farmer ur merchant endeavors to gain the affection and respect of his workmen.