[The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret of a Happy Home (1896) CHAPTER IX 16/16
Yet the most casual thinker must see the strength as well as the simplicity of a plan which would make skill and fidelity in service the only road to success. Self-interest, if nothing else, would stimulate our Katies and Bridgets, our Dinahs and our Gretchens, to keep a place, if it were not so wickedly easy to "make a change." Our kitchens are overrun and ravaged by Arabs that become, every year, more despotic. "Who would be free, herself must strike the blow." General liberty from this bondage can only be achieved by determined and united effort.
The establishment in every community of a simple organization under the name of The Housekeepers' Protective Union, that should have but one article in its constitution, and that one be the pledge I have indicated, would cover the whole ground, and effect within a year, permanent reform.
Shall not this appeal be the Alexander to cut the Gordian knot which has, thus far, defied the dexterity and strength of all who have wrestled with the problem? Who will send me news of the formation of the first Chapter of the H.P.U.? .
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