[290] A full account of the plan is given in _Good Housekeeping_, July 19, 1890. It was also described in nearly all of the daily papers during May and June, 1890. [291] A more complete and possibly more serious account of Mr. Bellamy’s views than that found in _Looking Backward_ is given by him in _Good Housekeeping_, December 21, 1889. [292] _The New York Tribune_ says of the sewing women in that city: “They are a product of city life; a sort of vitalized machines, fitted only to do a certain mechanical work and disabled for any other industry mainly because they have been fastened to a sewing-machine all their lives.” [293] “The men of my family would consider it the greatest disgrace if one of the women connected with it were to support herself.” [294] Mr. Charles Dudley Warner asserts that women teachers have no social position (_Harper’s Monthly_, April, 1895). But his statements can apply only to some of the ultra-fashionable finishing schools in two or three large cities. [295] It is the testimony of more than one employer that those domestics remain longest in a place and are most content who have a taste for sewing and reading. Those who are wholly dependent for pleasure on excitement and change form of necessity a restless class. [296] The word “servant” has been used many times in this work, but it has seemed unavoidable in the absence of any other generally recognized term. [297] It has been suggested that the word “homemaker” be applied to the mistress of the house and “housekeeper” to the employee; “working housekeeper” is often used of an efficient caretaker who does her work without direction; “domestic” and “house helper” seem wholly unobjectionable. It certainly is not necessary in abandoning one objectionable word to adopt another equally so. The Lynn, Massachusetts, papers, for example, advertise under “wants” for a “forelady in stitching room,” “a position as forewoman by a lady thoroughly familiar with all parts of shoe stitching,” “on millinery an experienced saleslady.” In other places one finds “a gentlewoman who desires employment at twenty-five cents an hour.” The public has much to answer for in the misuse of both “servant” and “lady.” [298] _Japanese Girls and Women_, p. 304. [299] _Ante_, Chap. II. [300] This does not refer to ordinary baker’s bread, but to that made according to scientific principles, such as is sold at the New England Kitchen in Boston and by the Boston Health Food Company.