18 MARCH 1916, Page 3

A correspondent draws our attention to the following advertisement cut

from a leading daily paper of March 13th :—

VOOTHAN, first of two (under butler); age 25-30; Ineligible for Army, or older man, not necessarily In livery ; 2; 18 Indoor servants; good plate cleaner, waiter."

" The words ineligible for Army ' seem," he says, " to show that some rum our of Great Britain being at war has reached

—, otherwise one would have supposed that the adver- tiser could not have been aware of the fact, or ho would have been ashamed to proclaim that a family of two is employing eighteen indoor servants ( x outdoor servants ?) at a time when the country is desperately in need of labour."