VERY CASUAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 9

VERY CASUAL.

"Rita" (Mrs. Humphreys), in her latelypublished account of her short sojourn in America, tells us, with something like disinay, of the free and easy milliners of American domestic servants. But then America is a democratic country, and so is Canada. "Side" in noi tolerated "by anybody from anybody. But this freedom of manlier is not unmannerly, and Ihere is no reason why anybody should make a grievance of it. A correspondent who lived for some years in British Columbia gives some examples, fays a writer in an I'jiiglish paper. On one occasion (she writes) I was calling on a sick friend As I was leaving her room to go downstairs I was stopped by the voice of Maggie, the "help," calling up to me, "I wish you'd bring that thick white shawl down l'ro,m that room," which service I naturally performed. On another day. adds our correspondent, at tho house of "an English friend. I was sitting with my hostess by the fireside, when tho maid entered with a pair of hot curling-tongs in her hand. Walking up to my friend, tho girl knelt down, offered her tho longs, and said, "Curl my bangs, miosis!" Tho bangs were curled to the satisfaction of all. The country districts aro even more democratic than the towns. I met at one time tho daughter of a well-to-do rancher acting as domestic servant on another farm. She did all and any menial tasks that came to her hand. Once when a ball was to be given in the neighbourhood I was afraid the lack of an escort or conveyance would prevent'me from..going. But-the "help , . , stepped in and offered to drive mo over and bring me back in. their own buggy. I went, and found myself in the best society tho .district offered. .