Sancta Simplicitas.—Housemaid. "We're getting up a sweepstakes, Mrs. Thrupp. Won't you join?"
Housekeeper. "Gracious me, child; not I! Why if I won a horse I shouldn't know what to do with him!"
Early Domestic Trials.—Young Wife (in great trepidation—to her brother). "Tommy, I'm going to give the cook warning. Just listen at this corner, and as soon as you hear me say, 'Cook, I give you a month's warning from to-day,' mind you call me, and say I'm wanted immediately!"
METROPOLITAN HOUSEHOLDERS' CLUB
We understand it is in contemplation to get up a club for the purpose of endeavouring to improve the quality of servants. The indifference of the material is very much against the project, but the effort is worth making. A few old housekeepers have determined to set the scheme on foot by offering a few prizes, of which the following is a catalogue:—