"It is the servant problem," she begin, dg soon as we hed greeted each other, "which is the chiot snag of Jour new life, x have had two women since we seitied here, but neither was satisfactory. 'The frst just came out of curiosity' to see what sort of life we led here, and left as soon as she found she ' was expected to work. Ib was provoking, a we had bought tatamis. specially' for her to sleep on, and they have Jain unused fever since.
The second woman, also from a neighbouring village, slept out. She Idid her best, but not unnaturally her ideas of cleanliness differed from mine; and, as she failed to understand my objection to her bathing her children in the tank from which we Jéraw our water for washing, she had go too. "Bill and 1 are now literal yon our own. I suppose 1 could get a satisfactory amah from Naga-Saki, but we can't afford to pay their rice. They want anything from ¥.40 0 80 per month."
1 glanced through the glass screens unto the bedroom, and remembering my glimpse through the porch of the two. other living-rooms falled understand the allusion to straighten-fed means. Certainly there were no Jevidences of poverty in the appoint. ments of the house, and the tea-fable would have gratified the most critical taste, Something of my reflections must ed in my face, for Brown tale with
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