Social condition of domestic service, improvement in, see Remedies,
possible.
Social disadvantages of domestic service, see Domestic service,
social disadvantages.
Social opportunities for domestics, the demand for more, reasonable,
206;
cannot be met in private home, 206.
Social position of different occupations changes, 205, 266, 267.
Social stigma attached to domestic service, its greatest
disadvantage, 163.
_Sot-Weed Factor_, 21, n., 22, n., 27, 48, n.
South Carolina, colonial law regulating wages of redemptioners, 30;
to protect servants, 40;
concerning runaways, 41;
concerning those who harbored runaways, 42;
concerning punishment of servants, 45;
to prevent barter with servants, 46;
difficulty of obtaining good domestics in, 173, n.
Specialization of labor, an industrial tendency, 195.
Specialization of household employments, see Household employments.
Spinning, revival of, as home industry in Westmoreland, 232, n.
Statistics, basis of, for this work, obtained through distribution of
schedules, preface, vii-xi.
Stephen, Sir James, on civil service reform, 274.
Stillman, W. J., on fees, 290, n.
Suffrage, right of, denied domestic servants in Europe, 72, n.
Sunday, free hours on, in domestic service, 134, 146, 147.
Sunday privileges of domestics in early part of century, 58.
Swedes and Norwegians in the United States, number of, 78;
number in domestic service, 79.
Syracuse, N. Y., Household Economic Club, 225, n.
Table service an art, 142;
may be performed by specialist, 224.
Talbot, Marion, and Richards, Mrs. Ellen S., _Household Sanitation_,
261, n.
Taylor, George, signer of the Declaration of Independence, a
Pennsylvania redemptioner, 48, n.
Tea Company, Oriental, Boston, 216, n.
Teachers, wages of, compared with wages of domestics, 99-102;
salaries of, statistics, 99, 100.
Technical training, demand for, an industrial tendency, 195.
Texas, preference in, for German and Swedish domestics, 173, n.
Thatcher, Rev. Peter, Indian servant of, 51.
Tips, see Feeing.
Tocqueville, A. de, on democratic condition of service in America, 57.
Training schools for domestics, 180-186;
possible benefits from, 180, 181;
demand for, from employers, 181;
scheme for their establishment in connection with World’s Fair,
1893, 181;
few established and those unsuccessful, 181;
reasons for their failure, 182-186;
admit pupils too young, 182;
course too short, 182;
attendance not voluntary, 182, 183;
ignorance of employers, 183;
not analogous to training schools for nurses, 183, 184;
methods superficial, 184, 185;
undemocratic, 185, 186.
Trollope, Mrs., on difficulty in obtaining servants, 58.
Troy, N. Y., laundries, 223.
Tutwiler, Julia R., on feeing, 162, n.
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