So much so that body servants, or, indeed, domestic servants of any kind, would now scarcely be employed by anybody except on the ground of a canon of reputability carried over by tradition from earlier usage.
The duties performed by the lady, or by the household or domestic servants, are frequently arduous enough, and they are also frequently directed to ends which are considered extremely necessary to the comfort of the entire household.
The presence of domestic servants, and of the special class of body servants in an eminent degree, is a concession of physical comfort to the moral need of pecuniary decency.
But such servants properly come under the head of trained nurses rather than under that of domestic servants, and they are, therefore, an apparent rather than a real exception to the rule.
Another mode of viewing with charity the conduct of domestic servants, is to imagine what manner of servant you would make yourself, or any one of those whom in your own rank you esteem and love.
I cannot quit this part of the subject without alluding more directly to the duties of the employers of domestic servants.
There is nothing in which the aid of imagination, that handmaid of charity, may be more advantageously employed, than in considering the condition of domestic servants.
There are no assisted passages except, in some provinces, loans by Government to domestic servants.
The scarcity of domestic servants in the Australian Colonies, Western States of America, Africa, and elsewhere is well known.
A Domestic Servants' Agency will also be a branch of the Bureau, and a Home For Domestic Servants out of situation is also in contemplation.
The short administration of the British government on Java has fortunately given rise to another class of domestic servants.
But no doubt the large demand for young women's labour in factories and as domestic servants is another cause of the surplus of women in towns.
The servant-keeping class often shows a tendency to regard social questions mainly from the point of view of maintaining the supply of domestic servants.
They object to industrial regulations which give the workers statutory rights amongst their employers; they object to increasing the amenity of factory life and diminishing the supply of domestic servants.
Another disadvantage is the loneliness of domestic servants.
There is an investigation by the Board of Trade into the wages of domestic servants, and a book on domestic service by Professor Lucy Salmon of Vassar College.
The expenditure of absentees (the case of domestic servants excepted,) is not necessarily any loss to the country which they leave, or gain to the country which they resort to (save in the manner shown in Essay I.
Such, also, are the labour and the wages of domestic servants.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "domestic servants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
