0f coorse there'll be cases where women wall be skinnyking it a finething to stay at work and support themselves. A lassie that's earnedher siller in the works won't feel like going back to washing dishesand taking orders about the sweeping and the polishing frae a crankymistress. I grant you that.

0h, aye--I ken there'll be fine ladies wall be pointing their fingersat me the noo and wondering does Mrs. Lauder no have trouble aboot themaids! Weel, perhaps she does, and perhaps she doesn't. I'll let her tellaboot a' that in a hook of her own if you'll but persuade her to writeone. I wish you could! She'd have mair of interest to tell you than Ican.

But I've thocht a little aboot all this complaining I hear aboutservants. Have we not had too many servants? Were we not, before thewar, in the habit of having servants do many things for us we michtweel have done for ourselves? The plain man--and I still feel that itis a plain man's world that we maun live in the noo--needs fewservants. His wife wull do much of the work aboot the hoose herself,and enjoy doing it, as her grandmither did in the days when homeworkwas real work.

I've heard women talking amang themselves, when they didn't know a manwas listening tae them, aboot their servants--at hame, and in America.They're aye complaining.

"My dear!" one will say. "Servants are impossible these days! It'sperfectly absurd! Here's Maggie asking me for fifteen dollars a month!I've never paid anything like that, and I won't begin now! The idea!"

"I know--isn't it ridiculous? What do they do with their money? Theyget their board and a place to sleep. Their money is all clear profit--and yet they're never satisfied. During the war, of course, we wereat their mercy--they could get work any time they wanted it in amunitions plant----."