From a Womans Notebook - Where Domestic Service Scores

I have just had an interesting sidelight on one aspect of the unemployment problem, Last week my mother's help was obliged to leave, to be near her mother in London, She is a charming girl, who has been with us two years, and both the children and I felt that we had lost friend, Within a few days I received a letter.

“I had no difficulty in finding work,” she writes. In fact, no less than five ladies offered me work on the same day, so I chose this. It is a flat” (She gives the address of one of the most modern blocks of labour-saving flats in the suburbs),"All the washing is sent to the Laundry, and there is just one little girl. I am to start at 17/6 a week, and all found." 

That same evening I met a friend whose daughter is leaving school. She told me with pride that the girl had obtained a post at a local office over ‘the heads of 72 applicants. The salary, I found, was 15/- a week.