Domestic ServiceMacmillan, 1897 - 338 Seiten |
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advantages America average better Boston Carolina cent Chambermaids character co-operation co-operative housekeeping colonies colored Connecticut considered cook demand difficulties domestic employees domestic servants domestic service economic employed employer and employee employment bureau England expenses fact factory fees foreign born Germany girls give given household affairs household employments housework individual industrial kitchen labor large cities large number laundresses less living maid Maryland Massachusetts master ment mistress native born negroes number of domestic number of persons number of servants occupation ployee position possible present principles profit sharing question reason redemptioners regard Report says schedules schools secure social social stigma society Sot-Weed Factor South Carolina South Dakota tendency tion total number training-school for servants vants VASSAR COLLEGE W. D. Howells wages paid wages received waitresses week woman women York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 18 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Seite 58 - The greatest difficulty in organising a family establishment in Ohio is getting servants, or, as it is there called, " getting help," for it is more than petty treason to the republic to call a free citizen a servant.
Seite 28 - Rowley and his servant. The master, being forced to sell a pair of his oxen to pay his servant his wages, told his servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant answered, he would serve him for more of his cattle. "But how shall I do," saith the master, "when all my cattle are gone?" The servant replied, "You shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.
Seite 17 - I say, were such as, had there been no English foreign plantation in the world, could probably never have lived at home, to do service for their country, but must have come to be hanged, or starved, or died untimely of some of those miserable diseases, that proceed from want and vice...
Seite 76 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Seite 27 - In better Times, e'er to this Land, I was unhappily Trapann'd; Perchance as well I did appear, As any Lord or Lady here, Not then a Slave for twice two Year. My Cloaths were fashionably new, Nor were my Shifts of Linnen Blue; But things are changed, now at the Hoe, I daily work, and Bare-foot go, In weeding Corn or feeding Swine, I spend my melancholy Time.
Seite 28 - The wars in England kept servants from coming to us, so as those we had could not be hired, when their times were out, but upon unreasonable terms, and we found it very difficult to pay their wages to their content, (for money was very scarce). I may upon this occasion report a passage between one of Rowley and his servant. The master, being forced to sell a pair of his oxen to pay his servant his wages, told his servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant...
Seite 52 - Having been long and much dissatisfied with the Trade of fetching Negros from Guinea; at last I had a strong Inclination to Write something about it; but it wore off.
Seite 33 - J in the house, & I do not thinke she hath risen 20 times before my Wyfe hath bin vp to Call her, & many tymes light the fire before she Comes out of her bed. She hath twize gon a mechinge in the woodes, which we haue bin faiue to send all our Company to seeke.
Seite 272 - ... the dressmaker should no more be a universal character than the carpenter. Suppose every man should feel it is his duty to do his own mechanical work of all kinds, would society be benefited? would the work be well done? Yet a woman is expected to know how to do all kinds of sewing, all kinds of cooking, all kinds of any woman's work, and the consequence is that life is passed in learning these only, while the universe of truth beyond remains unentered.