The girl who becomes the employer will know what she is asking of her employée; she will realise that to labour indoors from 6.30 or 7 to 10 or 10.30 five days a week is not attractive to a young girl. The work may not be continuous: there will be half-hours of rest and talk with the other maids; but the fact remains that the servant is on duty and liable to be called upon at any time during those hours. The mistress, who has been a worker, will also realise how hard and disagreeable are some of the tasks required of the servant in a labour-making home. On the other hand, the servant will know that she cannot take advantage of the ignorance of her employer and that her employer is not demanding of her work which she herself regards as derogatory. The maid, too, will start knowing her work: she will not have to pick it up as best she can, often from persons knowing little more than herself. The life of many young servants is made almost unendurable because they have to struggle along as best they may, scolded by mistress and upper-servant alike for not knowing what they have had no opportunity to learn. A child in a fairly well-to-do working home, whose mother has been a servant, goes out to service with some knowledge of her work, but as a rule the conditions in cottages and town workers' dwellings are so utterly different from those in the homes of the well-to-do that the young girl can scarcely be blamed when she breaks and spoils and makes more dust and muddle than she clears away. Domestic Training will improve the Physique of the Coming Generation. A three or four months' course of intelligent domestic training would do much, not only to solve the servant problem, but to improve the physique of the coming generation, for it is sheer ignorance of domesticity which accounts for a high percentage of the infant mortality which is a disgrace to this country. And this ignorance of the importance of cleanliness, sanitation, etc., is not confined to the poorer classes. Fashions filter downwards, and when the educated women of the upper classes show that they consider household work beneath their attention, why should they think it strange when they find the same opinion expressed by the working-girl? Ignorance of the national value of "menial work" is one reason for the unpopularity of domestic service. This attitude is not confined to the uneducated--only to the unthinking. [Illustration: PLATE IV THIS ILLUSTRATION SHOWS HOW MODERN COAL GRATES IN BEDROOMS CAN BE FITTED WITH GAS FIRES WITHOUT MAKING STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS. This type of gas fire can be fitted in almost any shape or size of coal grates; its initial cost, as well as cost of fitting, is extremely low. (Fletcher Russell)] II Menial Work. The wide dislike of menial work which exists was brought before me vividly a short time ago.