DOMESTIC SERVICE.
(To TRE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTAT03."1
have not seen any letter on this subject that quite goes to the root of the matter. Surely between employer and employed, in whatever branch of life, the secret is co-operation, not competi- tion. I think of two households side by side—the one happy, the other miserable. In the first all work together for the common good; in the second each member is trying to get the better of
everybody else. After twenty-one years of exPerience, I can say that a really good mistress will have no difficulty in getting really good servants. It is not an affair of bicycles, writing-tables, or even early cups of tea : it simply is co-operation coupled with common-sense, and some sense of humour. We are two mistresses, one master, a baby or two (or three), and six servants: all except the infants do their share of war work, and by Carrying out the above-mentioned conditions we live and work together in concord
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