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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918.
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SCOTTISH NOTES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
July 1
THE SERVANT QUESTION
IN ENGLAND.
1 NEW SCHEME.
The servant-iitestion has long been a pressing one in England and the war has increase the pressure. To-day the talk is all of servant troubles, and it does not abate, for the shortsëe of inmes- Who will fitly sing the paises of tics steadily grows. The war as drawn
THE LINESMEN AND THE
GUNS.
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, the linearen
TAKING PASSENGERS AND CARGO TO
STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, &a
Steamers
Leave
to
Hongkong
Connecting Mail Stenaser from
Dus Marseilles
Due London
Colombo
Noon
Colombo.
When Passengers, change Steamers at COLOMBO
asks W. X. H. n to national labour scores of thousands of
[the Glasgow News,the linesmen going out in twos and threes, en with plier al reeks of wire, to build up she mervous system of the guns, contecting observation posts with batterice, tutteries with
one another, and all of them with Brigade Headquarters. At any hour of the day or nigh communication may fail, some line go "da," and
towards
domesties: high wages and patiotic im pulse are not the sole cause of this states of domestic: the drift of the girls There is rather a revolt against the is towards freedom away from living in perpetual subordination the precarious liberty that is gained in factory and shop. Peace, and the libera tion of unition workers, may alleviste. the trouble, but nothing can end it ex- copt a complete alteration of the domes
status..
There is now under public discussion scheme put forward by the Women's Industrial Council, to revolutionise completely the old conditions
They
Locommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in whatever the weather; however in-propone, according to a writer in a
Hongkong at the time of Booking.
On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
SAILINGS DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND
S. 8.
YOKOHAMA.
Leare Hongking About
Paengers may travel by Railway in Japan between Porta of Cail free of charge.
Tranebi pont),
INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS Non
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS,
*
WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR
MARSEILLES AND LONDON,
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Calling at SINGAPORE, FORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOMLO
AND PORT SAID,
JARRTING 1ST AND 2ND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES. PROPOSED SALLINGS ·
STEARA
Leary B'xona about
LATE S'POR
Dae at M'STILLEY, f calling ADMED
Due LONDON about
THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.
„FIAELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ANL STEAMERS.
All Cabins are Atted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Finished with an Electric Beading Lamp.
Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing" dates are liable to be esacelled or altered without notice.
fernal the gas or shelling out the | finesqpen' go as a matter of coute, end quturally the place where the jbook and he found updi mended
where, strafing is most likely to be heavy, Nobody sees them at their work, knows of the heart-sinking ter Pirs they defy as they repair the brenk with fingers mt mist be {struly as thes
and test tap in the line from the heart of hell the telephone pit.:
to
They as tuch of the horrors of the battlefiel
pay one, they understand their responsibility, and so they are the cheeriost of the cheery Mark Tapley ought to be the patron of their order.
Condon paper, that servants shall be paid by the day or hour, like the factory workers: that they shall live out in bostein they shall own no master save the centre or wherever ther choose: that that sends them out: that thair status uniform (ss has been done for nurses. shall be mised by the wearing of and by the abstitution of the title
home orderly " “servant."
for
The centre would train them, pay control them, exselly as the builder your house. treats the carpenter whore be sends to Complaints would so to the manager of the centre. Briefly, the give place to that of employer and em- relation betwen mistress and maid, would
ployed.
QUESTION OF TERMA
L
It is no use crabbing the scheme: it is better to discuss it before conditions grow still more difficult. We have to recognise that mistress and maid may be an out worn relation, and that the factory and the shop. and therefore to household may have to compete with the
I rememffer similar or better terms. Leaving aside sentimental points such as personal
line into Trones Wood in
ber watching two of them tracing a
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the days cost. Today the cost of a servant works
attachment. the main factor is that of CHERRY & 00," when that accused cope was lately out roughly thas-Wage (average, all won and hardly luka place of extras £5: value of
grades). £30; food. £10: washing and
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lodging £0
༠4.; splintered trees, corpses, littered making an annual total of 284 28. equipments, dust and evil smells.hour servant (7 am to 3 p.m...
Ender the proposed scheme, the eight- Telephone No. 491.
...or 3 p.m.
Hongkong, March 20, 1014,
A
-meals, equal, to £90 per annum. Tha
| Tiwy monde thirteen breaks as they to 11 p.m.) would probably be given two reped in anu that night well have balance of £2, say 25. a wiek, would been called the Valley of the have to be paid her. But this would
Shadow, only to find on reaching leave her 50 pages amor KEATING'S
the erup-hole that served as a P., that their perilous toil was
less, since there was an alterna tive line intact. They just laughed and comwured that two lines were [better fluan one.
a
no other worker 'thas it in ■ maximum price. In practice the charge feeding, £9 9x for bastal lpleing, £6 for would work out nearer 20 for half extra say 16 4s, for clothing and week. That is the bare cost of living. details; total £40 68, say 16, to 18%
including balf the cost of food, and in NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
practice the wage would be fixed by the Consignees are rewinded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents
demand between the maximum, 230, regarding arrival of consignments expect t of which they have received documents Not long ago I made the acquaint-nd the minimum, 165. or advice."
Accepting. 20s. a week and half food, Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the ance of a very nonchalant ma who this means that a household, employing Consignees and the Company's Surveyors, Mesars Goddard and Douglas, st 10a.m. has won a desperate repaturion as a one servant (cost £94) would have to on Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the linesman, and who in civil life fol employ two in relays (cost £144), teamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims willowed the gentle calling of an or servant, or a little less after peace.
Roughly mearia £60 a year more per be admitted after the goods have left the GodownS
For Further Information, Paasiga Faros, Freights, Handbooks, Dates of Sallingsgaoist. "Wires dis, somebody
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
(JAPAN MAILS.S. CO)
SAILING DATER
would report. Give me my blink!
I should be less proud than that of the organist linesmän.
11
THE SCOTS AND HUMOUR.
HOUSEHOLD ORDERLIES."
It is heavy increase, and I do not
middle fortune will bear a new load of 2120 a year for two servants, but I am
to
in tin hat," the organist would suys know whether the average bonsehold of fund go out with his repairing kit. When he was seen again, it meant that the wire was repaired, the bat ured that they will, if only to escape tery" through, for he stayed out, from the presect, discontents. Thus it is. & commercial proposition; it is akim mending breuke as they were made, that of the service Hats which every until the line was OK. He hus day grow in popularity; the idea is not but it been known to stay out, without it for a philanthropic group,
seems designed for the intelligent capi-!! food, for twenty-four hours rather talists. For soon we may come to than come in and leave the battery's time-servant or we may be
mmable nerve disconnected. Reputations obtain servants on the whole terms. have been made in the war of which
while a
enlist orderlies can as easily
laundry finds laundresses.
To judge this idea freely WB kauteti slough old prejudices, be ready to
∙call. in our SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG "SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
orderly as we send for.a mossenger boy, and to pay the proper DESTINATION"
STEAMER & DISPLACEMENT
Mr. Safront-Middleton plunges fee that we pay the district messenger straight into the midst et his ro which is coming over our social system
It means speeding up of the chanus Shanghai, Kobe & (*iyo Maru 12,330 tons WED., 4th Sept, il a.m. tie bok about the Pacific, Wine it means baatening the break-up of our Yokohama Kitano Maru, 16,960 tons WED., 18fb. Sept., 11 am. Dark Seus and Tropic Skies," with vast private houses into maisonnettes, cut the slightest hint of what.com. the growth of flats, the spread of the Nagasaki, Kobe &ĥ Nikko Maru, 3,600 tons SAT, 14th Sept., 11 am.place European condition of life common dining room, common kitcher,
Yokohama
12,300 tong SAT. 19th Oct., 11a.m. The emerges from, and yet we are so ad common day nursery, (sa, in service
fate.) curried away by the charm of his
This may displease, but it is the new personality that we are vered not to order, and nothing cap, arrest its slow kuow more about him. Some of our or swift advance, nothing can restore reviewers hazard the opinion that in difference and the old irresponsible rule, entirely the old conditions of class part at least he is Secta. The the condition of service fortwenty-four grounds for this seem somewhat hours a day. We must change; let us slender: but one of the passages think of it without revolt. quoted in support of it, in praise of a companion, runs thus:He was of Scottish descent, consequently his rental equipment, was valuable, and enabled him to discern an intelligent joke, and laugh, if somewhat daily,
* Aki Maru,
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Kebe
"
Nagato Maru, 9,000 tons TUE., 17th Sept.
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