[255] Starkie, On Slander and Libel, p. 19.
[256] Story, On Contracts, II., § 1304.
[257] Daly, IV., 401.
A good discussion of “The Legal Status of Servant Girls” is given by Oliver E. Lyman, Popular Science Monthly, XXII., 803.
[258] An article on the last point is found in the Boston Herald, November 23, 1890.
[259] “Housework soon unfits one for any other kind of work. I did not realize what I was doing until too late.”
“I should prefer to housework a clerkship in a store or a place like that of sewing-girl in a tailor-shop, because there would be a possibility of learning the trade and then going into business for myself, or at least rising to some responsible place under an employer.”
“I would give up housework if I could find another position that would enable me to advance instead of remaining in the same rut day after day.”
[261] “You are mistress of no time of your own; other occupations have well-defined hours, after which one can do as she pleases without asking any one.”