A WORD TO HOUSEWIVES.
Pro THIS EDITOR or TUT " SPOCTATOR."] Snt,—I am loth to trespass upon your valuable space, but as Mr. J. S. Little seems to have taken exception to it sentence in my last letter, I think he will be relieved to hear that my remarks were belied upon a long and practical experience of household management. I have had at times to do the pereoual catering under somewhat difficult conditions for a household of twenty-xis persons, where it was absolutely necessary to have n practical knowledge of housekeeping and the "culinary art." I run soy present house of three stories and a basement with one servant - not an easy matter in London, and quite impossible if the members of my family were more often at home. Special work. which has been a part of my life for many years, and is now more or less connected with the war, occupies all my spare tins, (upon an average six hours daily), and I know of no one willing to take it on. I may say that it is quite possible for a man of leisure, with a moderate amount of patience and brains, to • lo this special work after due training, sod if Mr. Little is inclined to find a substitota for me I am quite willing to free my oe remaining servant, though I candidly admit that 1 should nont do the work of my house in an efficient unmoor and at the same time look after the hundred-aud-one things which require this daily direction and attention of the mistress of the house. Per- eonally, I have found it quite possible to study strict economy and have my meals prepared and served in is wholesome and "palatable" manner by a British cook.—I ant. Sir, Ac..
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