DIRTY LINEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14982, 30 April 1909, Page 5

DIRTY LINEN.

TO THE EDITOR. Fir, —l was disgusted with Mr Rus- i sell’s remarks and sneer at the importation from home in yesterday’s paper. What would the. feelings -of a strange girl, in a strange country be, and this m a country where we %re told at home, how much kindness -we shall receive. • No wonder .there ■is that cry for domestics. If the girls have not to be taught what will fit them for wives and mothers? , Alauy of the colonial ladies I have met, were never fit to be married. I know one that will boast of .what she learnt at school. Still she admitted she had never touched an iron in her life. Now she has a baby, she does not know what to do with it. Her mother has'.it, more than it is at home. She can’t wash, and never made a pudding in her life before she started nouse-keeping. What must- a man think of a wife like that? If her. income would allow ;it, would she be fit to have a servant, knowing so little herself? Really the poor sneered, importation would do some good if let alone.. If a man like All’ Russell will sneer at an educated young lady, what would be the lot of the poor imported domestic, there is so much talk about importing? Surely her lot would be hard. I am, etc. 1 •ANOTHER lAIPORTATION FROAI HOME. ' TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—-In regard to the remark made by Air Russell concerning dirty linen, I think it most abominable that .he should allude to English men and 1 women in the manner ho did. It , "is my opinion that the English race , (of the present day is one to be proud of. I am, etc.,' $ ‘THOROUGHBRED..