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the very nature of the circumstances, can only lead to 

 unhappiness. 



Nothing is of more importance than to help servants 

 with their money affairs. They are very ignorant and 

 very improvident, though often very generous. The 

 extravagant servant will listen to no reason about 

 putting by for the 'rainy day,' and the best among 

 themselves constantly help to support some of their own 

 relations. If they are willing and the mistress is tact- 

 ful, talking over their affairs is often of great use, 

 especially in giving them an idea what to do with their 

 savings, if they have any ; as, like other classes, they 

 constantly lose their money in unfortunate investments 

 offering high interest, and sometimes are even attracted 

 to do this by 'big' names on the prospectus, often those 

 of connections of their employers, which they look upon 

 as a guarantee for security. 



Whenever depression comes upon me from associat- 

 ing with those who are complaining about the ways and 

 fashions of the time they live in and the ruin of their 

 own generation, whether in the classes above or those 

 below them, I fly to some of the books of the eighteenth 

 century, and never fail to get the consolation I require. 

 What has received the greatest abuse in my time is the 

 Board School education and the destruction it has 

 wrought amongst those who become domestic servants. 

 I myself totally disbelieve this. First of all, those who 

 go into the higher schools are very few in number, and 

 nothing is so important in a free country as that all 

 should have the power to rise, if their talents fit them 

 for it. Here is a sentence of Oliver Goldsmith's, in one 

 of his essays. In his time it was a higher class that met 

 with his disapproval, but it reminds me of remarks that 

 I am constantly hearing now about those who used to be 

 called 'the uneducated': 



