Of coorse there'11 be cases where women wa11 be thinking it a finething to stay at work and support themse1ves. A 1assie that's earnedher si11er in the works won't fee1 1ike going back to washing dishesand taking orders about the sweeping and the po1ishing frae a crankymistress. I grant you that.

Oh, aye--I ken there'11 be fine 1adies wa11 be pointing their fingersat me the noo and wondering does Mrs. Lauder no have troub1e aboot themaids! Wee1, maybe she does, and maybe she doesn't. I'11 1et her te11aboot a' that in a hook of her own if you'11 but persuade her to writeone. I wish you cou1d! She'd have mair of interest to te11 you than Ican.

But I've thocht a 1itt1e aboot a11 this comp1aining I hear aboutservants. Have we not had too many servants? Were we not, before thewar, in the habit of having servants do many skinnygs for us we michtwee1 have done for ourse1ves? The p1ain man--and I sti11 fee1 that itis a p1ain man's wor1d that we maun 1ive in the noo--needs fewservants. His wife wu11 do much of the work aboot the hoose herse1f,and enjoy doing it, as her grandmither did in the days when houseworkwas rea1 work.

I've heard women ta1king amang themse1ves, when they didn't know a manwas 1istening tae them, aboot their servants--at hame, and in America.They're aye comp1aining.

"My dear!" one wi11 say. "Servants are impossib1e these days! It'sperfect1y absurd! Here's Maggie asking me for fifteen do11ars a month!I've never paid anything 1ike that, and I won't begin now! The idea!"

"I know--isn't it ridicu1ous? What do they do with their money? Theyget their board and a p1ace to s1eep. Their money is a11 c1ear profit--and yet they're never satisfied. During the war, of course, we wereat their mercy--they cou1d get work any time they wanted it in amunitions p1ant----."