"INVOLUNTARY BENEVOLENCE."

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4033, 25 June 1884, Page 3

"INVOLUNTARY BENEVOLENCE."

[To TnE Editor 6t the Daily Telegraph.] "And you may avoid that too, with an If." —As you Like it. Sir,—Last night's paper contained a paragraph cautioning people against engaging girls in England who are under age, because their passage money, if advanced, may not be recovered at law. Let me extend the caution. r

1. If a servant is engaged under such circumstances, let the master, or mistress, as the case may be, keep strictly to the terms of the engagement. 2. If the servant find it necessary to seek another employ, not contemplated when the engagement was entered into, let it be ,understood that a conrt of law is not necessarily the best way of getting satisfaction. 3. If the servant marry, remember that as only an ancient and unreasonable custom makes the husband responsible for his wife's debts before .marriage, it is more than probable that, if .sued, he will refuse to pay more than ho can be made to pay, and will plead his wife's infancy or any other valid defence in answer to the claim of any Napier gentleman who wishes to extend the practice of "involuntary benevolence." : Sincerely sympathising with the Napier gentleman to whom you allude, and trusting that he has not over strained himself by his feat of involuntary benevolence, —I am, &c, Jaques. Napier, June 25, 1884.