Housekeepers, average wages of, statistics, 94-96; reluctance of some to express dissatisfaction, 124; convention of, of little avail, 179; need of technical and scientific training, 200; need of information and education, 253, 254; conservatism of many, 264, 265; responsibility of each to all, 266. See also Employers. Housekeeping, small advance made in profession of, 254; reasons for, 254-258; belief that instinct supplies the knowledge, 254-256; belief that men have no active interest in it, 256, 257; that all women have an interest and need no training, 257, 258; home instruction in, inadequate, 258, 259; university education needed, 259-262; co-operative, see Co-operative housekeeping. Housework, see Household employments. Howells, W. D., on feeing, 162, n. Hygienic advantage in having vegetables prepared out of the house, 214. Idle labor, 10, 12, 270. Idleness forced upon women, 202. Improvement, enlarged opportunities for personal, 197. Indented servants, see Redemptioners. Indenture, form of, 22, 23, n.; included time of service, nature of service and compensation, 22; cases without, provided for by law, 23; law of, in Virginia, 23, 24. _Indian Narratives_, 20, n. Indian servants not allowed to travel without a pass, 44. Indians as servants in New England, 49-51; advertisements of, 49, n., 50, n. Industrial changes affecting domestic service in early part of century, 66, 67. Industrial tendencies—concentration of capital and labor, 194; specialization of work, 195; association and combination of workers, 195; increase of technical training, 195; co-operation, profit sharing, 196; entrance of women into business occupations, 196; estimate of work for its quality rather than for its kind, 197; official investigation of business relations, 197, 198. Industries, interdependence of, 15; some which are now obsolete, 215, 216. Insurance, Compulsory, see Compulsory insurance. Intelligence office, see Employment bureau. Inventions of the 18th century, co-operating influences with, producing factory system, 8; effect of, on household employments, 10-15. Irish famine, 1846, effect of, on domestic service in America, 62. Irish immigration, 62. Irish immigration in Connecticut, 1764, 20; in Massachusetts, 1718, 20. Irish in the United States, number of, 64, n., 78; in domestic service, 79. Japan, domestic service in, 148, n. Japanese custom of addressing employees, 209. Johnson, Mrs., _Captivity_, 20, n. Joynes, E. S., on training in domestic work in Germany, 301, n. Kalm, Peter, on wages in Pennsylvania, 1748, 29. Kemble, Fanny, on experience of her white maid in the South, 70, n. Kent, Chancellor, on legal relation of masters and servants, 138. Kitchen gardens, object and experience of, 185.