Why Not Medals for Housemaids.
It is suggested by a contemporary that medals for housemaids should be instituted. It should be reckoned as respectable to serve in the house as to serve in a shop. In France lue Government established an Order for washerwomen, to the most efficient of whom medals and diplomas are awarded. Why not medals and diplomas for servants? Let there be examinations and practical tests of competency in the several branches of domestic work, and public presentations for, and credentials of, ability. It would give a servant a higher sense of the worth and responsibility of her vocation if she were thus encouraged to perfect herself in it.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue X, 9 March 1901, Page 453
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112Why Not Medals for Housemaids. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue X, 9 March 1901, Page 453
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