A Woman's View.
The Perfect Servant. ARE MANY mistresses whose memories cannot retain the names of half the servants they have had. A new maid appears in the house almost with every change of seaSometimes the fault lies with the mistress; sometimes wdth the maid. For there is that upstart mistress unaccustomed to control who does not know that there is a difference between authority and censoriousness, or kindness and familiarity. Yet even the perfect mistress has difficulty in discovering the perfect servant. These days of raw democracy do not produce them, for the unsettled minds, following a will-o’-the-wisp good time, work on sufferance. They toil to see how much they can avoid doing. But sometimes a “gem of a girl” does appear, to make her mistress the envy of others. She is the old ideal. “ . . . How well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times. Where none will sweat but for promotion ; And having that do choke their service up Even with the having; it is not so with thee.” B.E.S.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19201, 15 October 1930, Page 6
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191A Woman's View. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19201, 15 October 1930, Page 6
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