both when she leaves and when she enters a situation. It is hardly necessary to say that when a girl does anything seriously bad, and her employers record it in the book, the book gets "lost." Then the police interfere and make things extremely disagreeable for the girl. A friend told me that in the confusion of a removal her own highly valued servant lost her _Dienstbuch_, or rather my friend lost it, for employers usually keep it while a girl is in their service; and though she took the blame on herself, and explained that the book was lost, the police were most offensive about it. In the end the book was found, so I am not in a position to say what penalties my friend and her maid would have incurred if they had never been able to produce it. But Germans have often told me that servants as a class have real good reason to complain of police insolence and brutality. Here is an entry from a German servant's _Dienstbuch_, with nothing altered but the names. On the first page you found the following particulars:-- GESINDE-DIENSTBUCH Für Anna Schmidt. Aus Rheinbeck. Alt Geb. 20 Juni 1885. Statur Schlank. Augen Grau. Nase } Gewöhnlich. Mund } Haare Dunkelblond. Besondere Merkmale _Official stamp._ (_Official signature of Amtsvorsteher._) Then came the record of her previous situations:-- Key: A: NR. B: NAME, STAND, UND WOHNUNG DER DIENERSCHAFT C: INHABER IST ANGENOMMEN ALS D: TAG DES DIENSTANTRITTS E: TAG DES DIENSTAUSTRITTS F: GRUND DES DIENSTAUSTRITTS UND DIENSTABSCHIEDS--ZEUGNISS G: BEGLAUBIGUNG UND BEMERKUNG DER POLIZEI-BEHÖRDE