SERVANTS' COURTSHIPS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 July 1868, Page 5

SERVANTS' COURTSHIPS.

The cuipabielaw, " No followers allowed, so. rigidly enforced by some matrons, cau neither suspend nor disannul the far higher laws ol nature, human sympathy and human love. These primeval and unchanging forces will break through any barriers of artificial restraint. Female servants always have had foU lowers, aud always will have to the end of time. Ihe principal effect of thiß rule is to. drive them into deception, darkness, vice, and infanticide/ The amount of infanticide in this, country is notorious, aud much of it is owing to the loose and artificial circumstances of a servant's courtship. A servant's wooing timeis frequently the turning point of her life, and needs above all things the friudly vigilance oi her employer. Why should any mistress think, it beneatii her to care for the msitrimouial wel-. fare of a poor servent girl? The marriageof servants furnishes an excellent occasion forexercising a healthy aud elevating influence on. the domestic life of the lower classes, and in, this direction, more than in any other, they lit- ed improvement. It will take any employerlittle time to know -who the servant girl's, sweetheart is, and what he is. If immoral, or unable to earn his living, the girl should bead vised. She can have no hope of comfprt un--less the man is steady, and able to earn an. honest and suffipienfc livelihood. Aa uasuifc-. able man,Bhould be forbidden the house; andi if the infatuated girl is deaf to all, reason, and will not give up her unsuitable lover, shehad better be discharged. A friendly interest, of tbis> kind would save many thoughtless, servants from, deception and ruin. — " Gtoodi Words.!'