THE MARTYRED RICH
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—When, under the heading, "The Martyred Rich," " Janus " pillories the statement: "I, for example, who live alone very quietly with a staff of seven domestics, am quite unable to obtain a kitchen-maid," he is satirical at the expense of justice. In its context the pilloried statement constitutes part of a precisely reasoned plea for unemployed girls being encouraged to seek employ- ment in domestic service.
Homer held that to be the only servant of a poor master was the hardest of human lots. Mr. Thursbv-Pelham's statement is intended to show that a servant in his house would not be underpaid, underfed, overworked. Are there not thousands of girls who if there were not something amiss in our conditions of unemployment would be glad to fill such a post to their own advantage, the comfort of their employer and the relief of the tax-payer?
Surely, " Janus " in this case has been guilty of facing only
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