LADIES IN SERVICE.
[To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR:1
SIR.—I have read your article, and the letter signed "A Prac- tical Mistress" in the Spectator of July 23rd. If by the term "lady," you mean only members of the lower-middle class, the plan proposed might be entertained ; but if you mean it to also include ladies, in the sense of women with a high ideal of honour and truth, it seems to me that you are proposing to throw away recklessly the most valuable material.
Perhaps it has not yet been generally realised, that if ladies, in this real sense, would fill the positions of matrons of work- houses, mistresses of schools, forewomen, managers, and so on, an immense advance would be made in the social questions now so prominent, both as regards working men and working women. It is just because posts really requiring a lady's character are filled by people of low ideals and untrained minds, that progress has been so small, though with the expenditure of so much time and money.—I am, Sir, Sz.c.,
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