One curious sign of the times is that although so many women are going into war work there has been an extraordinary increase in the number of domestic servants looking, for employment. Any day now one may see a column to a column and a half in "The Times of parlour-maids, housemaids and cook-generals offering themselves. In peace time a third of that space would have covered the lot and the advertisers were mostly registry offices which had me variably parted with their treasures before one rang them up.
The "Evening Standard" says that housewives are hoping to solve their domestic servant problem by means fof Netherlands and Belgian refugees. But T doubt it. No doubt some refugees will take house work. But the general experience endorsed friends is that more and more people are learning (0 do without resident maids, are having a daily woman and helping out in the housework themselves. The difficulty of getting maids afford them, and the sort that are used in making guns. It is obvious which kind Hitler wants. Of the other sort the sale has been greatly Increased since the war. Many people argue that diamonds will always fetch their price and lock up their savings in them accordingly.
One Is learning a lot through the war. For example that the Belgian Congo produces nearly half the world's diamonds, and that the Netherlands colonies produce almost all the world's elnehona bark, which seems is highly needed medicines. As the Netherlands and ourselves grow practically all the world's rubber, Hitler's last' supply of that, to0, is now out off.
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