A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1520, 1 April 1882, Page 2

A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.

A correspondent who signs himself " Verax," writes to the Editor as follows :—": — " I think if the Government ever start free immigration again, instead of importing dolls-eye makers and women who have been used to nothing but wrap up files, they should import a few good washerwomen and send some of them up iu to the Waikato. A friend of mine told me th© following as a fact, and I have no reason to doubt its being so : — His wife being ill, he wanted to get a woman to do the washing. He suggested to a man in his employ that perhaps his wife would do it, but it turned out that she was not strong enough to do such work, but hinted that perhaps her mother might be persuaded to undertake it. The latter sent word that Mrs had better send her washing to — well, a place where fire is supposed to be more plentiful than water. At last a washerwoman was found, but she had several small children who could not be left at Lome alone, so a eavfc had to go for her and family, and as there was several small members resident in the house all that day, you may be sure that that house was a quiet one. In the evening, after being at work all day, paterfamilias had to harness his horse and take the washerwoman and family home, and he came to the conclusion that it would pay him better to turn to and do the washing himself.