SERVANTS' HALF-HOLIDAY.

Hastings Standard, Issue 70, 17 July 1896, Page 4

SERVANTS' HALF-HOLIDAY.

[To the Editor.] Sir..—Your extremely youthful newspaper has contained of late several '• screeds " on the servant-girl question written from " Bridget's " point of view. Strange how people of your correspondents* -t imp will be personal. Argument and logic e perfect strangers to. and their greatest grievance sc-ms to i th it their employers did not all v, 1 to loaf. " Mary-Hann " seems to think that she should be allowed to eat the bread of idleness; but my opinion is that her employer is doing a benefit to his fellow-men by keeping his servants well in the collar and stopping them from having too much high life down stairs. Now a days the worruking-man " and the " slavey " seem to have all the say in this country ; and the result of this state of things is Kelly'-" meddling Bill. Th' who have failed to get therisri\t_: "ntan mdtprndent position vent their spite b\ abu-irg their superiors. *■ Who are the critics?" said Lord Beaconsfield, "the men who have failed ; and instead of accepting the inferior station to which their own incompetence has doomed them, the working cli-s-s determined to ruin their future by interfering in political anl p r-on-.l matters for which tbvir education leaves them totally unfit." They had far better set to work and try to regain lost ground instead of rushing into print in the columns of the Standard. As for Kelly's Bill, we have yet to secit made law, and should it become so it will be the means of endless trouble and annoyance.—l am, etc.. C'VNRTS. Hastings. July 10th, K»0.