From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Tante Esther came this afternoon and she told us about her new maid. She is always coming and telling us about a new maid. All her maids have something the matter with them, like cross eyes or dandruff or big hairs growing out of their faces; and they are not very bright. Grandmother says she has to take these ugly ones because she doesn’t pay enough money to get pretty ones, and besides she is not very nice to them. Grandmother says that she is crazy clean, and every single minute she has the maid doing something. She is either shaking out Tante Esther’s clothes from the back window, or polishing silver, or sweeping. Tante Esther can’t see these homely girls but everyone else can.