QUEEN OF THE KITCHEN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1959, 2 October 1888, Page 3

QUEEN OF THE KITCHEN

A writer m the " Melbourne Argus" thus poors forth the agony of his burdened boul on thesn^J3Ot of the 'ook': — Sir — You'll be glad to hear that at last we secured a cook who ia almost certain to stay the week oat. She can't cook (that does not matter — nay wife does it), bat she ia highly respectable, her grandfather was a doctor, and she has a brother behind the counter, but she's modest an unassuming, notwithstanding that a*» the puts it, 'she Vess pride' When I heard the conditions, £ anggested we might as well go without one, bit ray wife was horrified. ' A house without a ojok, the idea !' But my d9»r,' I suggested, 'yon do all her work.' ' What does that matter when the world does not know it ?' This argument as yon will admit, air, was unanswerable. The conditions upon which this young lady consented to join our household I oonslder very reasonable. She has £1 per week and the spare room. She goes out three nights a week, and has the use of the piano, 'just to keep up her music' She drop* m about 9 p m., jist as wo are comfortable over oar ouffee with • please ma'am, may I play a bit V We are afraid to say no, and so the whole of us retreat to a den of nsy own at tha back of the house, 6ft by Bft. We have allowed her to establish a complete form of domestic communism aa to the ownership of linen, eto. And yet no are not happy. This walking about on tiptoe, thia constant self-rei?tr%int, this neceaaty of alvtays addressing her m words and tones fitting her worth and her position, leet she should give notice, Is undermining the constitutions of all of us.