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Filipino domestics working in this country have long been exploited by many of their employers.

The next was a dissector, who with a knife of Ethiopian stone cut the flesh as much as necessary, and as the law would permit, and[167] immediately afterwards fled away with all the expedition possible, because it was the custom of the relatives and domestics to pursue the dissector with stones and do him all the injuries they could, treating him as an impious wretch and the worst of men.

Aleˆs Hrdliˆcka has compiled the following comparative table of the poor or orphaned children received into the asylums, and the pupils of the public schools in Boston: Stature of American children Boys Age in years 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 In asylums 971 1088 1172 1163 1234 1261 1315 1367 1424 1452 1518 - in Boston public schools 1060 1120 1176 1223 1272 1326 1372 1417 1477 1551 1599 1665 Girls In asylums - - 1101 1158 1204 1289 1290 - - 1398 - - in Boston public schools 1052 1109 1167 1221 1260 1315 1366 1452 1492 1532 1559 1567 Even after reaching the adult age these differences are maintained, as may be shown by the following statistics taken from various authorities: Average statures obtained from soldiers (in centimetres) Italians English French Students and professional men 167 Professional men 175 Students 169 Tradesmen 165 Merchants 172 Domestics 166 Peasants 164 Peasants 171 Day labourers 165 City employees 169 from which it appears that while in Italy the class of labourers having the lowest stature is the peasant class, which lives under the most deplorable economic conditions, in England on the contrary it is the workers in the cities who live under worse economic conditions than the peasantry, it being well known that the English peasant is the most prosperous in the agricultural world.

The tradesmen, who at all events are performing a work of social utility, stand next to the men of letters; while the aristocrats show some advantage over the domestics.

An establishment was also made of six hundred persons to be my domestics, who had board-wages allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for them very conveniently on each side of my door.

And here it may, perhaps, divert the curious reader, to give some account of my domestics, and my manner of living in this country, during a residence of nine months, and thirteen days.

It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.

But, when we returned to his palace, he asked me “how I liked the building, what absurdities I observed, and what quarrel I had with the dress or looks of his domestics?

The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual.

But in justice to this prince’s great clemency, and the care he has of his subjects’ lives (wherein it were much to be wished that the Monarchs of Europe would imitate him), it must be mentioned for his honour, that strict orders are given to have the infected parts of the floor well washed after every such execution, which, if his domestics neglect, they are in danger of incurring his royal displeasure.

That the productions of such marriages are generally scrofulous, rickety, or deformed children; by which means the family seldom continues above three generations, unless the wife takes care to provide a healthy father, among her neighbours or domestics, in order to improve and continue the breed.

But the race of inferior Houyhnhnms, bred up to be servants, is not so strictly limited upon this article: these are allowed to produce three of each sex, to be domestics in the noble families.

’ ‘Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,’ was the reflection suggested by this compound order.

This parallel obsession elicited the interesting suggestion, from the critic Maurice Tuchman, that both animals (especially sacrificed animals) and uniformed domestics were scapegoats of sorts.

usually in the phrase in the White House , said of female visitors who were taken captive by the prison staff and detained to perform menial labor and to work as domestics in the Huntsville area, without wages or salary.

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