I know, personally, throo ladies who the man's, s deserted by hor husband, and left with two young children. She hired a capable woman to look after the house, and joined a Indies' orchestra as pianist at £2 a week. She now earns £40 week, and works twelve hours day. The husband of the second fell ill. She set him to write letters and run errands, which was light work that he could do, and started a dressmaker's business. The third was left a widow without means, She sent hor three children to " boarding-school, and open-oda tea-room. I don't know how they talked before, but I know that they do not qalk now as though earning the income 8 a sort of round game.
On the Continent, they have gone deliberately to work, one would imagine, to reverse maters. Abroad woman is always where man ought to be, and man where most ladies would prefer to meet with women. The ladies' garde-robe is superintended by a superannuated sergeant of artillery. When I want to cur) my moustache, say, I have to make application to a superb, golden-haired creature, who stands by and watches me with an interested smile, I should be much happier waited on by the superannusted sergeant, and my wife tells me she could very well spare him. Butit is the law of the lend, I remember the first time I travelled with my daughter on the Continent. The first morning I. was awakened by a piercing scream from her room. I struggled into my pyjamas, and rushed
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