Wzorzec służącej propagowany na łamach katolickiego czasopisma „Przyjaciel Sług” na przełomie XIX i XX w.
THE MODEL OF A HOUSEMAID PROMOTED IN “PRZYJACIEL SLUG” – A CATHOLIC MAGAZINE FROM THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The following article was prepared on the basis of information contained in “Przyjaciel Slug” (Servants’ Friend), a monthly magazine issued in Cracow since 1897. It was directed to housemaids and by its Catholic character, it aimed at upholding the recipient’s morality. It promoted a role model of a servant as a hard-working, compliant and devout person. However, the model had a rather wishful nature, so it is not possible to ascertain to what extent it was reflected in reality. Nonetheless, the con-tent of the magazine was a response of Catholic backgrounds to the moral decline of that social group, and an attempt the help young girls to adapt to urban life, which was often new to them. Servants as a profession, were very common in the 19th and early 2oth century, yet quite often ignored by their employers. The magazine was supposed to support readers in every-day work as well as in their conflicts with “Mr. and Mrs.”

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