Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — SERVANT GIRL FAMINE. [ARTICLE]

SERVANT GIRL FAMINE.

Condition that Continues to Bother tk* Housewives of Chicane* The “servant girl famine" still cone ' 2 tinues to bother Chicago. There are five» , | situations open for every girl who care* : j to take up the work. The girls are not I there, however. There has bee-n talk off . an exodus of domestic servants from other towns to that place, but if such ha» || taken place the pilgrims must have been I lost ou the way. The supply of has not increased. The employment afMMtfl eies are full of waiting women, but tbwrjlM are mistresses, not maids. They Wafi|B for the servant who does not come. Ia a the meantime, nteq continue to apply for-*;' and get women's tarork. There are now m scores of men acting as cooks and “see* ond girls” in private families. They, A* : jjj the washing and perform other work usually performed by women. Girls in do- | mestic employment now receive from SO 2 cents to $1.50 more per week than they did before the famine.