Foreign News: Servants

It is said that the only bargain left in Germany today is in domestic servants. Greater Berlin's organized housewives and servants union agreed upon the following final wage scale for August:

A perfect cook, 46¢ per month; plain chambermaid, 43¢ upper chambermaid, 64¢ housekeeper, 86¢ nurse, 43¢ educated governess, 64¢ girl under 15 years, 20¢ 16-year-old girl, 40¢ day helpers, 5¢

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