Abridge.
Wages in the last Century.—I should like to have any particulars of the price of labour at various periods in the last century, especially the wages of domestic servants. May I be permitted to mention that I am collecting anecdotes of the manners and customs, social and domestic, of our grandfathers, and should be much obliged for any curious particulars of their ways of living, their modes of travelling, or any peculiarities of their daily life? I am anxious to form a museum of the characteristic curiosities of the century; its superstitions, its habits, and its diversions.
A. A.
Abridge.
Woman, Lines on.—Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the author of the following lines:—
"She was ——
But words would fail to tell her worth: think
What a woman ought to be,
And she was that."
They are to be found on several tombstones throughout the country.