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...Slave at Home. A housewife who finally succeeds by some magic in finding a helper, be she live-in maid or day worker, may be surprised to discover that what passes for a domestic has undergone a vast change. Most of today's domestics are as militant as union members in their demands, which may range from a TV set of their own (practically a necessity for live-ins) to use of the family car on their days off. Frequently, they rule out whole areas of household work. Moreover, those who are willing to be maids and general houseworkers...
...quaint notion is that they all love one another, and that a month's vacation together on the West Coast will help them show it. They get to a crumbling gingerbread monstrosity by the sea. It's a barrel-of-fun house, of course, with live-in bats and a pump that requires surgery. Before Dad can get the luggage stowed away ("My friends all call me Redcap"), his two married daughters show up with broody broods in tow. and in obvious need of a good divorce counselor. One little grandson, who seems to have been born under...
With the demand for more and more help, domestics know only too well what wages they can command. An experienced live-in maid or cook frequently draws down as much as $250 a month v. $150 a few years ago, and a couple gets $600 a month, all plus free room and board; even live-out maids earn upwards of $200 a month, and the increasingly popular part-time cleaning woman averages $10 a day. What is more, the servant chooses the family, not vice versa. Says Mrs. Betty A. Heinke, who runs a California employment agency: "First...
...rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid breakfast as well as a thumping good lunch on the job, the same food the family eats-or better. The wise housewife watches her maid's health-and pays the bills -helps buy her clothes...
...house or outside-or did he just have a privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...