"As you uplift the service you uplift its workers," said Miss Addams. "You raise the wage, you advance the life. Already domestic service is demanding home life of its own away from the kitchen and its drudgery. It is revolutionizing the home life. It is requiring a readjustment of the living and an altering of the circumstances which surround the home. One of the elements which has kept back your craft is the fact that the domestic is isolated. She does not know the hours, the labor, or the wage of the domestic in the next block. Isolation tends to retard education. The domestic draws a better wage than the factory help for she has no board to pay, but what compensates the factory girl is that she lives at home and with her folks."
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