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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 255, 5 March 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

There is a certain getvleman in Philadelphia who is quite sure he is going to bo a multi-millionaire. If his hopes bo realised no one need complain of what, und3r prescut ciicumstancos, appears to be rash enthusiasm. He is a church member and properly enough believes in supporting his roligious convictions by his purs;. On his last birthday, howeA'er, he made a promise, which it is possible he may not bo able to fulfil, for after contributing 4fi to church funds, he pledged himself to double the amount on ench anniversary of his birth f)r the rest of his life. If he keeps this pledge and lives lo?;g enough the church will have plenty of money, for the amount of his offering on his birthday twenty-five years hence will bo considerably over £3,000,000.

A contemporary, after commenting on the fact that boys are taking the place of setvant girls, concludes his article as follows:—"Naturally we look to the United States to beat this and "go one better." And we are not dis appointed. The latest copy to hand of New York's most reliable newspaper, the New York Tribune, says : "An up-to-date fashionable woman has lately dismissed her maid and engaged a valet. 1 I have never been so well taken care of in my life,' she ass- rts. 'My ciothes are most bcautifu'ly kept; my boots, shoes, and slippers are like new ; and I have never hid my hair so well dressed ; in travelling he is invaluable ; he forgets no'.lrng, and his packing is perfect. He docs nothing for my husband. Jim Ins his own man ; my mm simply valets me.'" We do not profess to an intimate knowledge of the duties of a lady's maid, but we have a vjgue impression that they include ce.tain offices, and involve an intimate knowledge of things of which —well, ahem !—the rude male U not supposed to know anything about, and a lady who admits that she is " valeted" by a man must have an unusual stock of courage—or a lack ol ■something which is not courage."