SERVANTS AND MISTRESSES.

Evening Star, Issue 3199, 22 May 1873, Page 3

SERVANTS AND MISTRESSES.

To the Editor.

Sir,— -I am a servant girl, and have a good place and a good mistress. I do not think “ Mrs Tidy ” is any better than she ought to be, for throwing abroad such imputations as she has in her letter of the 14th inst. ; a more scandalous libel on us servant girls I never read before : such as “dirty in their habit v , lazy, taking away anything that they can conveniently carry away,” Ac. Now, sir, if a servant takes away anything belonging to her mistress, she, has her remedy in the Mayor’s Court, not in abusing servant girls through the columns of your paper—a paper that finds its way into nearly every house in Dunedin. “ Mrs r l idy” presumes to give advice to the ladies of Dunedin. She says they should inquire of their last mistress. Thanks to one of them that has answered her in your paper of the 16th inst. Now, sir, persons of “ Mrs Tidy’s” class, what were they before they became mistresses ? I will tell you ; merely barmaids and flirts, and servant girls themselves, who have got up in the world. They ought to thank Captain Cook every night. Now, sir, the question is very simple: good mistresses will command good servants. A good lady would not abuse a class of servant girls as “Mrs Tidy” has done. It is an old saying, “ birds of a feather flock together.” Ido not know anything about immigration, as 1 never was in the Old Country ; but ray opinion is, all is fish that comes in the net. Sir, in conclusion, if (he Iftdies ql Duneflin would ask at the District Schools about the Dunedin girlq I think they would get a different version to that of “Mrs Tidy’s.”—l am, 4c., A Servant Girl. Dunedin, May 19.