[229] Behaviour of Servants, p. 298.
[230] A lady recently went to an employment bureau, and in answer to her application for “a good cook,” received the reply, “Madam, good cooks are an extinct race.”
One large bureau in Philadelphia reports that the demand for good servants is twenty per cent greater than the supply.
[231] The character of some of the intelligence offices in another city is described by F. Hunt, in The American Kitchen Magazine, November, 1895.
[232] An excellent blank is used by the employment bureau connected with the Boston Young Women’s Christian Association. Seven questions are asked the persons to whom the employee has referred:
“(1) How long have you known her?
(2) Is she temperate, honest, and respectable?
(3) Is she neat in her person, and about her work?
(4) Is she of good disposition?
(5) Is she faithful to her work, and is she trustworthy?