[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link book
What Diantha Did

CHAPTER VII
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We are rapidly approaching an improved system of living in which the private home will no more want a cookshop on the premises than a blacksmith's shop or soap-factory.

The necessary work of the kitchenless house will be done by the hour, with skilled labor; and we shall order our food cooked instead of raw.

This will give to the employees a respectable well-paid profession, with their own homes and families; and to the employers a saving of about two-thirds of the expense of living, as well as an end of all our difficulties with the servant question.

That is the way to elevate--to enoble domestic service.

It must cease to be domestic service--and become world service." Suddenly and quietly she sat down.
Miss Eagerson was on her feet.


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