Labour, begins to feel discouraged in his efforts to solve the servant problem. Inquiries at the habour Exchanges show him that there are in London alone 10 available places for every girl willing to fill them. This, however, does not necessarily show the real position. as most, domestic servants would no more) demean themselves by registering at a La hour Exchange than they would walk in a proc n of hunger-marchers.
The "Daily Herald," attaches the question from a new angle by an onslaught on registry offices. Thou-nds of domestic servants, "many of them earning only 7/6 a week," are being deprived of anything from 5 te 15 per cent. of their keeping their Mistresses are except that T wonder how many people get mai for 7/6 a week, the charge is undoubtedly true. There are some ex cellent registry offices which make no charge until a servant is actually engaged. Others, when applied to, require a preliminary fee say, 10s. and then inform you that they have no one on their books and will write when they have. It is odds that they never do.
In this connection "Truth" tells a curious story for the accuracy of which it vouches. A lady, wanting a maid and weary of registry offices, raised in a big London daily.
y she had 27 applicants, and her only difficulty was to choose among them.
Another body of women workers, of whose grievances much has been heard lately, namely hospital nurses, are now formulating their demands.
Through their guild they have decided to stand out for professional status equivalent to that of doctors, a minimum of £200 a year for a State registered nurse, limited hours of work, and six weeks' holiday a year. I am not saying they do not deserve it, or something like it.
But! concessions to nurses on these lines will heavily increase the already ges of nursing homes and And as usual, it will be the over dened middle class that action by Mrs. Vera Bryce nst Lady Veronica Hornby £145, the value of a diamond and platinum clip brooch, is a lively warning against the dangers of lending. or rather borrowing jewellery Mrs. Bryce and Lady Veronica were friends who admired each other's jewellery and arranged, judge put it, to "do Mrs, Bryce got is no Veronica got the clip, put it on h pany through her—sued Lady Veronica for £145 and although the Judge sympathized with her, he was obliged to find that she had been negligent in the legal sense and must pay up.
The whole incident is most dis-is tasteful. A friendship of several years' standing is broken up, and, most of us, in Mrs. Bryce's place, would have very little pleasure in the new jewel which she can now tuy obtained in such a way. Moral: the happy possessor of £145 clip-brooches, Polonius again: nder b By the way, has Agatha Christie's new novel "Death on the Nile," in whi n of the very not the best. detective stories I have ever read. Apart from the mystery, is a s story. And if you love Cornelia, well, you should.
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