wage limit sooner reached, 103, 104; offers constant occupation and least loss of time, 104, 105; free from strikes and combinations, 105; conforms to economic conditions, 106; _difficulties of employer_, 107-129; not confined to America, 128, 129; cannot be remedied without economic treatment, 129, 264; _advantages in domestic service_, 130-139; reasons given for entering, 131; high wages, 132; healthful occupation, 132; externals of a home, 133; free hours and vacations without loss of wages, 134-136; useful training, 137; the employment congenial to many, 137; legal protection in, 138; legal rights—freedom from physical punishment, sufficient food, support during illness, good character, wages, damages for discharge, 138; advantages are inherent in the occupation, 139; summed up, are those of “wages, hours, health, and morals,” 139; advantages unavailing to attract, 139; _industrial disadvantages_, 140-150; independent of personal relationship, 140; list of reasons given for not entering service, 140, 141; little chance for promotion, 141; lack of stimulus for the efficient and ambitious, 141, 142; “housework never done,” 142, 143; lack of organization in housework, 143; irregularity of working hours, 143-146; limited free time, 146; in case of Americans, competition with foreign born and negroes, 146, 147; strictures on personal independence, 147-149; summary of industrial disadvantages, 149, 150; _social disadvantages_, 151-166, 204-211, 266, 267; no real home life for employees, 151; being _in_ a family and not _of_ it, 152; regulations in regard to visitors necessary, 152; lack of opportunity to receive or give hospitality, 152; exclusion from general social life of community, 153; deprivation of opportunities for personal improvement, 153, 154; appellation of “servant,” 155; use of Christian name in address, 156; requirement of livery, 157; requirement of servility of manner, 158; custom of offering fees, 158-162; lack of protection and exposure to vice, 162; discrimination according to ordinary social standards not expected, 193, n.; social inferiority weighs more than anything else against the employment, 163; other disadvantages, 164; advantages and disadvantages compared, 165; latter outweigh former, 166; remedies adapted to nature of difficulties required, 168; no panacea, 168; reform must be in line with industrial progress, 168; must be an evolution, 168; cannot be immediate, 168, 169; real problem of domestic service, 198; the subject neglected by economic students and writers, 199; its importance underestimated in public sentiment, 200, 201; improvement dependent on wider general education and more scientific investigation, 203;