They have never known anything else.

Thrift as a principle is ingrained in them.

But the American household is notoriously thriftless.

As a rule it destroys the quality in the untrained immigrant girl.

It is American not to care for expense--and she accepts the method--as far as her mistress' goods are concerned--if not her own.
The general stupid assumption that because the immigrant girl does not know our ways she knows nothing, has deprived us of much that she might have contributed to our domestic arts and sciences.