A WORD TO HOUSEWIVES.
[To me Earroa or rag " 9rcersros."1 Sts,—Will you allow a few words in reply to Mr. J. S. Little's letter, "A Word to Housewives," in the Spectator of October 206, in which he advocates that women of the educated chassis. should confine themselves to domestic work at home in order to set free domestic servants for hospital work ? Certainly set free as many servants as possible for work for which they are suitable, but certainly not at the expense of hindering the voluntary work of educated women in hospitals for which their education and position specially qualify them, even if they are less skilled than the *there in some of the scrubbing and other hard work. If they failed the VAIL now, where would it find the workers (or the means to pay other wcrkers) to take the place of the ladies who so bravely face discomforts and unaccustomed work for the sick and wounded for their sakes and for the sake of their country voluntarily, and who in so many cases give such a high tone to all such freely given aid ? Forgive me for writing strongly, but as an old woman who cannot help in active work myself I feel bow thankful the whole country should be to the brave girls brought up in comfort who have practically made the V.A.D. work possible by facing such arduous and trying work; and'the least I can do, as one who wishes to, but cannot, share in the effort, is to express the gratitude to them of at least one Omeoxes.
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