Domestic service is constantly urged upon women as the safest, healthiest, most normal profession in which they can possibly engage.

Assuredly it seems to possess certain unique advantages.

Domestic service is the only field of industry where the demand for workers permanently exceeds the supply.
The nature of the work is essentially suited, by habit, tradition, and long experiment, to women.

It offers economic independence within the shelter of the home.
Lastly, housework pays extremely well.

A girl totally ignorant of the art of cooking, of any household art, one whose function is to clean, scrub, and assist her employer to prepare meals, can readily command ten dollars a month, with board.