MARY JANE AND THE DONKEY CART.

Dunstan Times, Issue 656, 13 November 1874, Page 3

MARY JANE AND THE DONKEY CART.

Nothing would more tend to an improvement in the present relations between “ mistress and maid ” than that the former should leam to “ know her place ” bettor than at present. With a view to instructing her in this, we (Pall Mall Gazette) give publicity to the following wholesome rebuke to a mistress who in an unguarded moment suggested to a newly-engaged housemaid that the railway station at which she would arrive was “only a short walk” from th e house, and that a “donkey cart Would b e sent for her luggage.” “ Madam—l re " ccived yr letter quite safe, but when i come to read at the end of yourisending a donkey cart to meet me i feel horror-striken ; it has entirely set me against the place, and what with the donkey cart aud the restriction of Dress i fear i shall never be able to abide to your rules, for i have never gone without rings in my ears since i was 4 years old. Difrent other little things i have thought it over seriously since i sent yr letter away, and when i went to Lady s to live the coachman anil groom were both sent to meet me with a splendid spring cart, and when 1 went to Mrs s to live the carriage was sent to the station to meet me and the un-der-housemaid and a cab was ordered to take our luggage, i never heard anything so poverty-striken as sending a donkey cart, iam quite took against the place, and if i come i should never do myself any good, and then it would only be giving Mrs s a bad name and puting you to great expense and also putting you nut of the way to he changing again so soon, altho i always dress very neat aud plain but at the s-<me time i do not like to be under restrictions as to what i may be alowed to wear and what i may not and i think it much better for me to be candid, iam Madam your Humbly servant, Mary Jane—.”