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Colonel Hilder's scheme is taken seriously by a large number of people interested in solving the domestic servant problem. Said Colonel Hilder : " We can't force the servant girl back into domestic service, but we can win her back. We must make her understand that her work is honorable. . . . Why not recruit an Order for domestic service on lines similar to the Red Cross? Call it the Gold Cross Order, and insist on a standard of efficiency and good conduct for membership. Have a recognized diploma and badge and invite women of good position to take...
...about him who seeks to build solidly but falls? The work that he has not done is left undone, but if this be from lack of tools or opportunity, and not from negligence or moral fault, he can expect to hear the judgement, "well done, good and faithful servant", for that comes as the reward not of success, but of moral effort...
...what else can one speak on such a day? Fannie Hurst, not wanting to be photographed, though looking quite as radiant as usual, told me that she has chosen Lummucks as the title of her new novel−the one which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton...
...cannot be termed a successful man. He probably made more mistakes than any other French public servant made before...
...sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...