DOMESTIC SERVICE.
[To THE .EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 .• all the arrangements at present suggested for the improvement in social conditions for.domestic servants should -not something he done to :safeguard the employers' interests? For, be it ,remembered that donoattio service has been the only trade where apprentices learnt their work, destroyed property (often valuable) at the-employers' cost, and often-left situations when their training was finished. Moat mistresses fully realize the need of and are willing to have new household conditions, but what are they to get in .return? My husband has a fairly large-parish andaaesnl1inome.hand two-months ago .I engaged, as .a daily maid, a,girl -who had been -in munitions, -nineteen years of age. Saturdaya off from 10 .a.m., Sundays from.2.20. She could neither cook nor do any washing, and left at 7.10 each evening. I provided aprons and caps. Oneevenfig.after having been paid she calmly informed me she was not Doming back. Up to that time she had never hinted that she was in any way dissatiafiedsso I pointed out to herthat•sla was acting most unfairly, and ought to give a week's notice or wages. She simply answered, "She did not care," and went, having, of course, had two monthe'straining at say expense. Also, in addition to her :regular time off, she had had five half- days extra during the two months. Surely such eases as this,
which are numerous, call /err scene of employers'
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