[262] “Women want the free use of their time evenings and Sundays.”
“If I could bear the confinement I would go into a mill where I could have evenings and Sundays.”
“Sunday in a private family is usually anything but a day of rest to the domestic, for on that day there are usually guests to dinner or tea or both, which means extra work.”
“I wouldn’t mind working Sundays if it wasn’t for the extra work.”
“I suppose the reason why more women choose other work is, they would rather work all day and be done with it, and have evenings for themselves.”
“Some families have dinner at three o’clock Sundays and lunch at eight or nine, and that makes it very hard for girls.”
[263] “A great many very ignorant girls can get housework to do, and a girl who has been used to neatness and the refinement of a good home does not like to room with a girl who has just come from Ireland and does not know what neatness means.”
“In ⸺ they have much colored help and do not have white help, so the white girls think any other work is better than housework.”
“In California self-respecting girls do not like to work with Chinamen—they do not know how to treat women.”
“Before the introduction of Chinese labor a young girl never lost social caste by doing housework; but since this element came, household service as an occupation has fallen in the social scale.”—Employer.