The Archive · 1922

Domestic Treasures

It is rather interesting to see from a recent copy of the "Times'' that the long, long complaints of the} dearth and inefficiency of servants at Home have begun to produce a revulsion of feeling among employers who are now taking themselves to task instead of Mary Jane. Thus one lady writes:

To meet the some, a domestic requires the patience dob, the dignity of an archbishop, com! with perfect humility, and T doubt if he would then satisfy a family of employers, where every one differs in temperament. and what agreeable to and is generally the reverse to others.

Is it not the Montessori system in which parents, detecting an infant in wrong, put themselves in the corner for their own deficiencies in training the young idea? Appropriately to this another lady say:

There is, unfortunately, no diploma. and no standard ici for domestic servants.'' That is th mise of the unpopularity of domes it has no recognized status; it is pation, not a profession. To raise it to the standard of a profession there must be a recognized standard of efficiency, and for thnt three things are necessary. Training, toated by examination and attested by a certificate, It looks as if the successful solution of the servant problem at Home were still some way off.

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