[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Influenza has given
a mere male the chance to contemplate the handling of " Satisfied Mistress " by her own sex. Even "H.'s " rapier will probably have failed to touch her. Influenza has, again, given a mere male time to scan the advertisement columns of the Morning Post, whereby he learns that " Satisfied Mistress " is not the only profiteer of her kind—for what else are those women who blatantly advertise " Two in family : five servants kept " (and "five" is not the minimum)? The other side of the picture is that
in a certain road not twelve miles from Charing Cross, where the houses are rated Trom £80 to .t150 a year, and every householder is physically and mentally worked to the limit of endurance, there is—except in my own house, and that for no known reason— not one resident domestic servant. " Satisfied Mistress " can rest assured that she is not guiltless when one more of the thousands of overworked men and their wives break down—disastrously.-
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