One abnormal result of the war is that it has solved, at least temporarily, the servant problem, With seven-and-sixpenny income tax and we don't know what other burdens yet to come, people have been cut ig down staffs and dismissing maids all over the place, Large numbers "of refugees "from Hitlerism, who had been" doing domestic' work, are out of jobs; British girls " too. The munition factories Which absorbed so. many: thousands of the girls in the last war appear to have all the "labour: they need at present, and buses and trams are still "conducted" by. men, According to the recently formed National Union of Domestic Workers: anyone now can get a cook-general for half the wages that would have been vainly offered before the war, Sugar For Her Tea Y.W.C.A. Campaign which shuls the door against the 11 is not, however, only econom
males; for a long "time past: more and. more housewives, partly" despair of getting maids, partly in irritation at their caprices, "have learnt to do. their own housework With the ald of a dally char, and are surprised to find how easy and leven interesting it is, and how much, smoother are the ways of life, 'They will not go back to the old ways at least during the war, with food-, rationing in prospect, 'Nothing was more diMeult' during the last war Some ey the workers in the foreign teams helping in the Y.W.C.A. Finance Campaign, Keading from left to right: Mrs. M. Campbell, Mrs. Denegri, Madame P. Premet, Mf Black, Mrs. than to make-servants realize '(a) what rationing meant, (b) that every. Jserap which could ' be turned to yesterday, they would immediately Send an aeroplane to bomb the place, Tu the last war King George V and Queen Mary were very useful for national propaganda, For instance when they cut out all alcohol from Buckingham Palace "for the duration," and later on took the same rations as all their subjects. even knew when the King visited his Army. in France. Today such news, handed out, of course, @ month after the event, would probably read that "it is reported that a certain eminent, person has lately teen. visiting, un-Specified troops somewhere on the Undignified Designation On Friday night we duly lied up the National Registration forms—the New Domesday Poole as i has boon fatled—to be feady. for the collector fu Saturday. "Of course he kl not Somer One, had. to answer intimate Questions which some people will not tke. Tromember, a 2 chili ovr old nurse "one died iv out howe ter hourly $0 yen service) vowing that nothing would induce her to. Ail consist form—to one, she said, bai over known hor nye nor ever should My father eventually of her into his May, locked the" dove and Sunded er to Mll-up. the form the plea that he was responsible, on. the solemn promise that ne one but he should know her secret One. question. inthe form strikes one as decidedly unfair. Where ones occupation is entered, n wife describes tiers as" ""unpaid. domestic duties" 'Thoro are sill plenty of. wives who Spend. all their days. cooking, knit-ith, mending, interviewing trades-met, keeping house accounts, pacity-Ing. maids, dosing children, weeding flower-beds, and' extracting. thorns from the dog's paw. Unpaid duties fcriainly, and domestic. But T think Such women deserve a more élgniied designation. The official phrase makes one visualize one of Belcher's charwoman,
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