DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND THE VOTE. [TO THE EDITOR OT THE
" SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—A great deal is being written about the reconstruction of domestic service and also about the importance of the woman's vote, but I have not seen attention drawn to the fact that domestic servants have no vote. To any one who values the suffrage this seems to me a distinct grievance. I happen to know an educated woman, over fifty, who has read much, thought much, and worked successfully all her life. She took np domestic work as her share of war service, at a time when domestic servants were hard to get. In order to do this and economize in every way, she gave up her little home (fur the duration of the war) and diverted part of her income to war needs. She is a working house- keeper; that is to say, she does the work of a cook-general and keeps house at the same time. Naturally she has not yet reverted to pre-war conditions. The result is she has no vote, but my char- woman, with revolutionary ideas, has!—I am, Sir, &c.,
ANN POPE.
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