254 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. 



In Olympia, a new town of the States, upon 

 Puget Sound, a large employer of labour told me 

 that he paid his farm-labourers thirty-five dollars 

 a month without board, and that labourers ex- 

 perienced no difficulty in finding work at that 

 rate of wages all the year round. In Olympia 

 a cottage may be rented at one pound a month, 

 and a water-rate of eight shillings a month, all 

 other rates and taxes being paid by the landlord, 

 while the people who have no property, though 

 they pay no taxes, have the advantage of first- 

 rate free schools. 



As to female labour, generally speaking, it is 

 in great demand and highly paid throughout 

 Canada. Even in England, I have cause to 

 know that competent cooks and respectable par- 

 lour-maids are more often sought than found. 

 What the daughters of the working-classes are 

 doing when their fathers and brothers say that 

 they are starving for want of work it is difficult 

 to conceive. It cannot be very hard for a woman 

 to learn to cook or wait at table, and yet look at 

 the number of advertisements for women who 

 can do these things in every daily paper. 



The lucky Victorians have found a substitute 

 for cook and parlour-maid in the versatile China- 

 man. They grumble at him, of course ; but 

 what they would do without him, no man can 



