[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,—Witli regard to
the question of the domestic service diffi- culty now being discussed in your columns, it has often occurred to me that the offer of some fixed period of free time daily would do much towards attracting recruits. Except under the present exceptional conditions there has, so far as I know, never been any shortage of hospital nurses—hard worked and badly paid though they are—and the reason probably lies in the fact that the " off- duty " period is a time of absolute freedom, when they have not to account for what they do. If the registry offices could be in- duced to take up the idea, and boldly insist upon a minimum of, say, two consecutive free hours daily (apart from regular outingis. I venture to say that there would be fewer vacancies on their books. And mistresses would do well to get accustomed to the idea, which is, after all, but common justice, and perhaps only a preliminary to the eight-hour day, which may come when women understand how to combine forces for their own protection.—I
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