15 NOVEMBER 1924, Page 13

DOMESTIC SERVICE AS A PROFESSION.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I, as an experienced housekeeper, enforce the very general protest against any kind of Institution for training Domestic Servants ? There is only one trade in the world which every wife and mother needs to learn, and this is the only trade in which you are paid good wages all the time you are learning it, with the best of board and residence included.

In addition to these privileges, there is complete liberty to change one's position at a month's notice, with almost a cer- tainty of finding another at once. My experience is that officialdom, in the shape of examinations and diplomas, makes mistresses, not servants.—I am, Sir, &c.,

ANOTHER HOUSEKEEPER.