WEDDED ECONOMY. 
in wet, and tronbled none of tliein to mafce liot teir 
or coffee. They grumbled and growled at their hard 
work, held a consultation in the kitcl ei, and at last 
all came in a body, and gave fifteen days’ notice to 
leave. They were not going to put up with this sort of 
thing any longer. The master sighed, but offered no re 
monstrance, he knew it would be useless. He also knew 
that his pet servant, who> as- a single mao,- had been in 
his service for years, and with whom he scarcely ever 
had a personally serious- dispute,, was- now useless.- 
They were not. the same sort of fellows- they used, 
to be at all : he could, not understand it. Ever since 
he got married, a sudden change had come over them. 
He had some private conversation about it with his- 
better half, without any satisfactory result,, further 
than : Whatever he chose to do, she was not going, 
to see his hard-earned momy wasted, po itively wasted 
in that kitchen ; better have no servants at all.” But 
he would say : Try it ; you will know better about 
it ; mind this is not the old country.” 
Again, the married planter^ having domestic comfort 
at home, did not care about going into Kandy for 
a spree^ he had lost taste for that sort of thing. It 
was a difficult thing for a neighbi*ur to get him out 
for a quiet dinner ; it was us less asking him to a 
spread, for would not his wife be lonely by herself 
Then his friends^ would not troop in upon him whem 
he had nothing in the house to entertain them with,, 
•as in the days of his single-bl ss dness. It may be 
Bometimes said these men at all events did anything 
but bless them. A whole lot of boisterous fellows- 
, could not and would not ‘‘^look up” a married man, 
and say they had come to dine | they might put the 
lady to inconvenience, and besides ordinary courtesy 
required that they should dress somewhat more thani 
in. comm-on ^'‘jungle .rig-oul” No,, they waited for an^ 
invitation, which, on suitable occasions, was- always 
given,, and thus began to creep in civ lization into* 
Jungle life. It was all owing to the la<lies. A few 
of the old stagers, however, would keep back, vote 
them. • an innovation on the good old routine, and 
■sigh for the good old times (?). of tough beef-steaks,, 
pumpkin curry and bad brandy ;. for then they did. 
not require- — it may be only in courtesy — to step out 
into the verandah to smoke. Th'^se were the conserv- 
ative party of the planting community no innova- 
tion, nothing that was new., could be by any possi- 
bility an. improvement. I think, O'-n the whole, these- 
reserved old planters were rather liked by the ladies, 
Brobably they took a pleasure in teasing them, or 
iu. shewing- off all the comforts which they had los-t 
