Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — On Different Ground. [ARTICLE]

On Different Ground.

The term “help,” meaning household or outside assistants engaged for short periods, occurs in the Massachusetts records of 1646, where help and servants are treated as separate, the latter being Inferior. A “servant" in those days was not sui juris; “help" stood on different ground, and the distinction Is still felt, however faintly. "Help" meant a free person, “Servant" did not