During school years let girls cultivate their brain power, gain accuracy and thoroughness in work, and become interested in the acquisition of knowledge, but make it compulsory that at the end of school life, before entering ser vice, or a trade, or matriculating at the University, every girl shall attend a domestic college where she may win honours in household management, or at the least obtain a pass certificate of com [ petency. *

Now this seems a long way off the ser vant question, but it is not really so. A certificate of honour to be won at college would in the first place give an added dig nity to domestic labour. Also, as every girl would learn how things ought to be done, mistresses would be trained as well as servants, and at the present moment in competent mistresses are the chiefest cause of incompetent servants. Just be good enough to run over the names of your woman acquaintances, and say with how

many of them you would feel comfortable at the idea of a daughter of yours taking service. She would work on an average 16 or 17 hours per day, also on Sundays, for the munificent wage of 10s or 12s, board (cold greasy dinner sent out from the dining-room) and lodging ("that dark little back room will do for Mary Jane") in cluded. Would you not rather, unless pressed by direst poverty, let your daughter live at home and earn 10s a week or even less in a factory, working eight hours a day under legislative supervision, without carrying the slur, an undeserved and unrighteous slur, of being a ' servant ?" The executive of the Domestic Servants' Association in London recently issued a manifesto, urging that servants' relations to thoir employers should bo totally re organised, that they should sleep away from their employers' homos, and that instead of being always at beck and call, they should work for a certain number of hours every day. It is in this direction •we are tending, but it is slow work eradicating casto prejudices from tho soul of man or woman. In France they are talking of putting a tax on domestic servants. Nearly 2,500,000 of tho population of France are servants; of this total 130,000 reside in Paris. About 30 per cent, are always seeking employ ment, and the wages are miserably low. 