THE LAST SPECIMEN OF SERVANTGALISM.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 248, 27 March 1875, Page 3

THE LAST SPECIMEN OF SERVANTGALISM.

Nothing would more tend to an improvement in the present relations between "mistress and maid" than that the former should learn to "know her place" better than at present. With a view to instructing her in this the Pall Mall Gazette gives publicity to the following wholesome rebuke to a mistress who had in an unguarded moment suggested to a new-engaged housemaid that the railway station at which she would arrive was " only a short walk " from the house, and that a " donkey-cart would be sent for her luggage":—Madam, —I received yr letter and the characters quite safe, but when i come to read at the end of your sending a donkey-cart to meet me i feel horror-striken; it as entirely set me against the place, and what with the donkey cart and the restriction on Dress i fear that i shall never be able to abide to your rules, for i have never gone without rings in my ears since i was 4 year old. Difrent other little things i have thought it over seariousiy since i sent yr letter away, and when i went to Lady—s to live the coachmen and groom were both sent to meet me with a splendid spring cart, and when i went to Mrs—s to live the carriage was sent to the station to meet me and the under housemaid and a cab were ordered to take our luggage. I never heard anything so poverty-stricken as sending a donkeycart, i am 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 putting you out of the way to be changing again so soon, altho i always dress very neat and plain but at the same time i do not like to be under restrictions 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, i and Madam, your Humbly servant Mary Jane—.