MUST WE ALL LIVE IN HOTELS?

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 873, 27 November 1916, Page 4

MUST WE ALL LIVE IN HOTELS?

President Girard, of the Hotel Stewards' Association, thinks that the servant girl problem ean only be settled bv putting up more hotels. He adds: "The work of training the servants of the country must be left in our hands." "This outlines a sort of tentative millennium," says the "Brooklyn Eagle." "When we all live in hotels, the servant-girl problem will disappear of itself. The housewife's burden will be transferred to the hotel steward. He knows how to bear it without Undue weariness or friction. Frankly, most women who run their own homes realise the acuteness of the present crisis. "Thousands of families have already fled to hotels. More are flying in the same direction. The hotel stewards get good salaries, are efficient captains of industry; the best of them earn more than the average banker, lawyer, or physician. That they are unhampered by shortage in the labour market cannot be said, but with system and complete touch with all sources of supply they will always make a shift somehow. '' If the cost of living in an hotel were not for many people prohibitive, the movement would assume stupendous proportions. Yet it is well, perhaps, that the tentative millennium of universal hotel-living is far off. ' Man makes the house, but womsj makes the home,' was once an axiom. When we have to say, 'Man makes the house and his fellowman, the hotel steward, makes the home,' where does woman come in"f "