APPRENTICING FOR DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
have read with great interest your article of August 19th on " The League of Skilled Handicraft," and am venturing to suggest a further development of the scheme, whereby young girls should be apprenticed to the head servants in largo house- holds, who, having all the trouble of training the girls, should be entitled to a premium in excess of their regular wage. In the smaller establishments the mistress would superintend and train the young servants in return for a lower wage. The idea of the League is an admirable one and should lead to good results, especially just now when there seems a universal desire among the parents that their girls should go into " good service," which means places where there are upper servants who organize the work and know how it ought to be done, thus raising domestic service to the same rank as any other
respectable profession.—I am, Sir, &c., T. C. F.
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