DECORATIONS FOR SERVANTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 20, 24 September 1913, Page 4

DECORATIONS FOR SERVANTS.

Tho |, Vnc l, Government is nothing il| „o paternal, ft lias taken compassion; on persecuted housewives, and wiUj solve the servant problem for them.. The scheme is simplicity itself, but I olle has to be acquainted a little With French custom and the fondness oi Frenchmen and Frenchwomen for wearing official decorations, says the Paris correspondent of the Telegraph. The solution consists in awarding a decoration with a red, white and blue ribbon to all faithful domestic ser-

vants. According to a law passed apparently unperceived last July, all domestic servants who have faithfully performed the duties of their estate. I and whose conduct is irreproachable. shall receive a medal like the one bestowed on all faithful clerks, shop assistants, and commercial employees generally. This will entitle them, furthermore, to wear a tri-colored ribbon in their buttonholes. The applicants must have served in trie same house or family for a period of thirty years, and must have earned the commendation of their masters or mistresses.