Bored, kudos to your mom for her humane act...A smart lady indeed!  Would be glad to see you follow the same footsteps, son!  And Sheetalb, the maharani and raja sahib examples was highly disturbing!  Damn, at least in the Himalayan Buddhist houselholds, the domestic helpers are treated as part of the family.  The whole class/social strata issue of the helpers seemed non-existent in these households (at least in all I knew: mine, my relatives' and friends').