DOMESTIC SERVANTS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--I have discussed the servant question with various bachelor friends. We have not yet discovered any servant problem.
For more than forty years I have had a small bachelor household. My servants have two ineradicable faults. They will sometimes marry, and they will sometimes die. Apart from these two objectionable practices, I have never, as yet, had to find fault with a servant for anything. In health and in sickness I have always had faithful and affectionate service. Many years ago, a nice young parlourmaid gave me notice because she had had a row with the cook. I told her I liked her and did not see why I should be inconvenienced because of a ruction between two women. The subject dropped, and she stayed on till she died in my house more than twenty years afterwards.
Women are very nice to men, unless married to them, but they are not infrequently fiends to each other. If a small householder has serious trouble with servants the remedy is in his own hands. Let him get rid of his wife. Judging by the newspapers, this is now an easy and pleasant process, and well worth the initial expenditure.—I am,
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