She has not got a stage child--if she ever had one, she has left it on
somebody else's doorstep which, presuming there was no water handy to
drown it in, seems to be about the most sensible thing she could have
done with it. She is not oppressively good.

She never wants to be "unhanded" or "let to pass."

She is not always being shocked or insulted by people telling her that
they love her; she does not seem to mind it if they do. She is not
always fainting, and crying, and sobbing, and wailing, and moaning,
like the good people in the play are.

Oh, they do have an unhappy time of it--the good people in plays!
Then she is the only person in the piece who can sit on the comic man.

We sometimes think it would be a fortunate thing--for him--if they
allowed her to marry and settle down quietly with the hero. She might
make a man of him in time.



THE SERVANT-GIRL.

There are two types of servant-girl to be met with on the stage. This
is an unusual allowance for one profession.

There is the lodging-house slavey. She has a good heart and a smutty
face and is always dressed according to the latest fashion in
scarecrows. Her leading occupation is the cleaning of boots. She
cleans boots all over the house, at all hours of the day. She comes