"Man never is but always to be blest." We seldom allow enough in these reveries on the good old days for the softening effect of dix tance. Parker, Jakes and Caroline may conceivably have been all we think them now, though even that is dubious. But practical experience of England soon shows that their breed is virtually extinct. English servants when good are indeed the best in the world, perfection is only to be had at almost prohibitive rates. Domestics of any close are hard to find, rigidly exclusive in their notions of what is and is not their duty, tenacious of their rights in the last At the risk of vilifying a still numerous close of my country-women, I declare that none have felt the war so little as housemaids and cooke. Their wages are in no way diminished, they demand exactly the same food as they have always had re-gardies of higher prices, and they neither pay taxes nor are expect ed to contribute to war funds.
Apart altogether from special difficulties due to war, one must
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