"What is the matter, Jane?" asked her lady.
"I never could stand having any one called my master," said the American.
This intimate nerve of self-love, this egotism, this false idea of independence affects women more than men, and in a country where both can go from the humblest position to the highest, it produces a "glistering grief." The difficulty of getting good servants prevents many families from keeping house. It brings on us the foreign reproach that we live in hotels and boarding-houses. It is at this moment the great unsolved American Question. What shall we do with it?
SOMETHING ABOUT COOKS.
"Last night I weighed, quite wearied out,
The question that perplexes still;
And that sad spirit we call doubt
Made the good naught beside the ill.
"This morning, when with rested mind,
I try again the selfsame theme,