We may think what we like of some of our late enemy countries, but once in a while we find that they have us beaten. We learn that in Austria legislation has recently been passed establishing the rights of domestic servants, and the law is of so modest a type that in one respect at least the country must be the housewife's paradise. The principal feature of this recent legislation is that every maidservant over 16 years of age in entitled. to a minimum of nine hours' uninterrupted rest out of every 24, and those under 16 shall have 11 hours.
she be available for duty for even a moderate portion of the 1emainder of 24, Austria will be one of the few countries worth living im. in Denmark, a much travelled wan recently informed us, the master of the house has more or Mary Jane, or whatever they call to light the kitchen fire before her, condescends to get up, and, of course, he or some equally insignificant member of the household has to bring the coals up from the cellar. In some of the allied countries there is a belief also that conditions are not very much better. If maidservants in Austria are content with the present legislation, maidservants in Austria are content Austria is in a fair way to having won the peace.
Is view of the growing number of foreign visitors and residents la Tokio, the police authorities have decided to establish a special bureau in each police district within the city. The especial duty of the officers will be to afford every facility for information for and to provide every protection to the foreigners, and at the same time to keep a vigilant watch over the movements of suspected Bolshevike and the like.
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