"Home Birds!"
With apologies to Lord Byron: The new
domestic?
In the "Morning Post" of the other
day,
Lady Byron insisted that the old "feudal" word "servant" should be
abolished; together with such words as "cook", "parlour-maid",
"house-maid", and "kitchen-maid". Her idea is that the new
domestics (we must use the word until something else is found!)
shall
be called "Home Birds", and that they shall be addressed as "Miss"
and
referred to as "young ladies".