The Daily Astorian

Among those who should come to this Northwest are girls capable and willing to do housework. At this office there is an almost constant inquiry like this:

"Can you tell me where I can find a girl to do housework?"

And we cannot. It is probable that one hundred girls, capable and efficient, could find places just now in this city.

The men folks are getting anxious to have near a bright, chatty, cozy-looking girl in the kitchen and about the house generally, for more reason than one, the chief being that the season is coming apace when the early mornings will be chilly, and a fellow doesn't like to bounce out of bed at 6 o'clock and make a fire. A man would a good deal rather lie cuddled up in half a dozen blankets until the tea kettle begins to sing the breakfast reveille. There is no better time than the early morning hours to lie quiet and concoct schemes for getting ahead of your fellow men. At this hour conscience has not fully awakened, and one feels particularly elated.

The lady who last inquired for a servant girl says that she is willing to give a girl a fair show if she will come along. She says her husband shall light the fire—with a very pronounced emphasis on the "shall" that bodes dire calamity to that rooster if he dares to whine. She says the girl can have her choice of all the dresses in the wardrobe, each Sunday out, two other evenings of the week, the run of the parlor and the latest music. When the minstrels come along the girl shall have a front pew, with chocolate caramels thrown in. If it is a box, then a box goes. If the girl will do the work, and let the lady have her husband, she can command a fair salary and any number of favors.

Candidly, we know of no place this side of the New Jerusalem where a hired girl can be so completely happy in all her surroundings as here in Portland. She has little work, plenty to eat, a good salary and nineteen chances in every possible twenty of being struck by Cupid's lightning before she has closed the first fiscal year in service.—Standard.

Here, too.