' [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I am 76 and have kept house, my mother's and my own, for over 50 years. May I ask how many families there are in England who can afford to pay servants 45s. a week ?—and another lOs. to 15s. for their food ? Bedford has 40,000 inhabitants—not more than 20 families could. When I came here in 1901 nearly every house had a servant ; in 1938 about
house in to has;' others have a woman for a• few hours two or three days a week; some every day. No one here will go out to work on Sunday ! They say the middle-class is dying out. Who has the courage now to marry on k3o0 to L500 a year? And there are many families, too, who live on £200. Our servants, when we have any, are much smarter than we are and more particular what they eat.—ours faithfully,
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