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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 90, 17 April 1890, Page 2

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Allow me space for o few remarks on the bubjecb of «> eervice." Our country girls are the moot sought after by town people, for the reasons perhaps that they are more docile ,than their city sisters, and easier imposed oniuthe matter of longhours and short pay. And these, exiled as it. were from home and all they hold dear, are, to " Paterfamiliae," free from anxiety and care. The truth of the matter is—and it is the way of the world--ibhe employer w. boee of the position and dictates tertne which the £lrl, : needing subsistenoß for herself and help "for sdm&- pn» dependent on ncr, is compelled by sprese of cirounaPtanoe .to accept or*—lapse. She

has no decent trade or avocation to fall back on, and so the employer secures a good bargain in screwing out a maximum of work at the cost of a minimum of wage. My conbention is that one class has no moral right to hold another class down to ignorance and degradation in order that the wind should nob blow roughly on its own dainty skin, and if " Paterfamilias " or others wilfully insist upon depriving their domestics of sufficient timo to improve their minds, hosv much better are they than those of other days who laded men with burdens grievous to be borne— the burdens of enforced ignorance? Civilisation (upstairs) appears, in a great measure, to be raised on the submission, ignorance and robbery of the workers. For the employers there is leisure, culture sellism and white hands ; for bhe employed, drudgery, misery and a pittance.—l am, etc., Matbrfamiltas,