God bless the squire and his relations Aud keep us all in our proper stations may be a very pleasantly-sounding couplet in the ears of the said squire, provided ho has no wish to rise above squirearchy ; but were such a spirit to pervade society there would be an end to all progress. My knowledge of Home servants is restricted to the remembrance of oue—a nursegirl, who refused to remain behind when my mother left Home for the colonies, and who shared our first colonial home with us, ultimately marrying a friend of the family, an educated gentleman, now occupying a good position in Australia. This Home servant evidently neither knew her place too well to comply with a request to come into the drawing room nor objected to be taken out of her place. We are too democratic in these days, are we ? We are not yet as democratic as Jesus Christ was when He lived on earth, therefore we are not democratic enough. As for the discord, dissension, arid dismissal "Aliquis" thinks bound to follow on the adoption of my democratic and impractic able methods, I've encountered none of them, and, at any rate, that is not the ques tion. The question is What is right? not What is easiest? and, as I have already i .ted, I've tried both methods and found

; em work admirably. Has "Aliquis" tried either ? If he has not he is not com ; lent to form an opinion on the matter.— J etc., C. W. Christie. Mornington, October 20.
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