ribbon, gave a jump, caught it in his mouth, and dragged Gyp into sight, such an unhappylooking little dog!

I am sorry to say that this tendency to get dirty as soon as he is washed is one of Gyp's faults, though the sight of Bridget will send him under the bed, or any other spot he

thinks will hide him, he hates being washed so much. In spite of his dislike of soap and water, he will not keep clean.

Let me tell you a secret. I have known some little people who were very like Gyp in this, but they cried and made a noise when washed. Gyp just looks miserable.

The Domestic Problem Again An interesting article has appeared in the "American Kitchen Magazine " entitled "A Domestic Service Investigation." But though the article is interesting, it is not conclusive. It represents the work done by a group of women who undertook the investigation of the domestic service problem as presented in the leaflet on Domestic Service Investigation issued by the Boston Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ. The topic is "Relations of Employer to Employee."

It is admitted that the domestic service question finds its greatest difficulty in the fact that it is uneconomic, and that until it is put in an ecoLo Lic relation it cannot be solved. Various suggestions have been made, One who has studied this subject sees some solution of the problem through the arranging of regular hours of work, al service after a given hour to be paid for. The time for the closing of the regular hours of work is put at seven P M. in this suggestion. As this is the dinner hour of many families, it would be simply impossible to fix a definite hour. Besides that, the varying slowness or quickness with which servants work makes it imimpossible to regulate the time arbitrarily with any degree of justice to all.

It certainly seems possible in every household for mistress and maid alike to understand that there is a certain amount of work which is to be done each day, and that all demands on the servant for more than this specified service will be paid for as extra service. For instance, why should servants who are hired to do the regular work of a family be also called upon to do, without extra pay or some compensating privilege, the extra work made necessary by entertaining, especially when refreshments are provided at ten or eleven o'clock at night, which involves the servants' remaining up until twelve? Why should this be considered as part of the regular work of the family? In all justice this

work should be paid for as extra work, or else extra service hired for that evening, and the servants dismissed when the regular work of the day is done.

At times of sickness the grossest injustice is sometimes done the servants. Sickness involves extra labor and irregular hours, and yet comparatively few mistresses feel called upon to give extra compensation to the servants, who have often made tremendous sacrifices of strength during the period of illness in the family.

This question of regulating the amount of service is, of course, the kernel of the whole situation, and depends for its adjustment wholly on the sense of justice that animates the mistress and the business ability of the mistress. Where but one servant is kept, the relation between the mistress and the servant can never be an entirely impersonal relation, and it is in the household where but one servant is kept that the greatest injustices must be borne. It is here that there is the loneliness and exclusion. It is usually in these cases that the greatest amount of extra service is demanded, without compensation for that service. The meals of the one maid are not watched as they should be, nor care taken that she shall have leisure for her meals and the kitchen to herself, the children to be excluded entirely from the kitchen during the servant's meal-times. There should always be provision for the maid to entertain her friends at reasonable times, and it should be made clear to her that she can entertain her friends. The house is her home, not merely the place where she works.

Of course in the last analysis the personal equation must settle the question of how many privileges shall be extended and how they shall be regulated. No general rules can be enforced in all families alike; but this is certainly true, that where there is a sense of just ce, the relation between mistress and maid is rarely a strained one. Almost

always there is some compensation, either of unexpected privileges or in mo..ey, when extra and unspecified demands are made upon a servant's time. If the servant works late, she is given as many hours the next day to herself, or she is paid for the extra service in money. Unions have been suggested for the protection of servants. When the demand is so much greater than the supply, the business is protected. A strike, the last resource of the union, could never be carried out where affection or loyalty plays so large a part as it does between mis'ress and maid. The intelligence office gossip is the servant's protection. More than one mistress has found herself boycotted. The basis of the contract between mistress and maid should be specific, with extra reward for extra service, especially in the home where but one maid is kept.

The Family and the Community A correspondent writes a protest against the waste of maintaining separate heaters and cooking-stoves in every home. She asks whether it is not possible to develop a central plant that would provide all the heat necessary in every household for all purposes. People living in the natural-gas regions enjoy just this freedom from care and waste to-day.

There is no question that co-operation is possible that will reduce the waste of the individual house. But this co-operation will require unselfishness, a vast amount, from the projector or projectors. Certainly a breadbaker might be found who could and would make the bread, cake, and rolls of a group of families. Not baker's bread, etc., as we know it, but home-made breads, cakes, and breakfast breads. A co-operative laundry might do more to solve the problem of domestic service, increase comfort, and secure leisure in which mistress and maid may possess their souls, than the manual-training schools and domestic-training schools will accomplish in the next century, not to mention what the former might accomplish in training to skilled labor the now unskilled washerwoman who is the sociological problem of the tender-hearted philanthropist.

The gas companies are providing, in a way, the heat for cooking. When they grow broad-minded enough to put in a meter connected with the cooking-stove and sell the gas at wholesale that is used at wholesale, they will serve far better their own and the consumer's interest; more people will use gas. The problem of heating by gas to-day, be

cause of the odor that seems inseparable from a gas heater, must be left for science and invention to solve.

There is no more reason for maintaining individual laundries and bakeries than individual academies for the education of the children of the family. It is a question of public sentiment, intelligence, and comprehension of what money can accomplish in the interest of the family. Time and character will solve the question as to exactly how far it is wise for each family to supply its own needs which are at the same time community needs.

A Suggestion

A correspondent suggests that the maga zine advertisement-pictures pasted on blocks of wood would provide work and amusement for children on Sunday. She believes this will afford more amusement than pictures pasted in scrap-books. These blocks could be arranged inside of a large pasteboard box. Outdoor scenes, summer or winter, may be arranged with bits of glass for lakes and rivers. Cotton dipped in alum-water would represent snow and ice. Interiors could be arranged, and hi.tory scenes and incidents, sacred and profane, could be reproduced. The suggestion is a good.one, as some illustrations could in this way be made to serve many purposes. A child clever with scissors and paint-box could make a series of historic scenes that would be both educational and entertaining. A child of imagination would find no limit to the characters and scenes he could reproduce by the aid of these pictures so mounted.

The Family Story-Teller

The art of story-telling is an art worthy of cultivation in every household. The story need not necessarily be original, though practice improves this gift if it is possessed even in the germ, but the ability to tell a story that has been read is a gift to be prized and cultivated. To retell the myths, the legends, that have been told by the classic writers, so that to the child learning them they are eternally new, is to be a genius that can bring joy and its correlative, peace, to the children. The practice may begin with Mother Goose in prose until one has acquired command enough to appear as a story-teller to the children able to read. The choice of material is wide. History, as well as funny stories or the stories of the old classics, will hold the attention and interest of children if dramatically told.

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