With regard to the domestic servant difficult, I had many talks with Canadian housewives on the question. The problem is solving itself by American ladies doing their own housework and simplifying their domestic arrangements accordingly. The wives of men of high social position do most of their own housework and seem to enjoy it. All this has its effect on the social etiquette. Ladies visiting each other in the afternoon, for instance, do not expect to be asked to tea, though of course if a lady chooses to ask her most intimate friends to tea there is nothing to prevent her. It is understood, however, that to get tea for visitors means that the hostess herself must prepare the meal and do the necessary washing-up afterwards. The servant problem is responsible also for Canadians of good social position living in houses much smaller than people in the same station would occupy at home. Driving round the “bon-ton” suburbs of rising cities in the Prairie Provinces I was surprised at the bijou residences in which I was told prominent citizens who were credited with fortunes of half a million to a million dollars were content to live. You must never judge of a man’s wealth in Canada by the size of his house and the style of his living. It is a question of the impossibility of getting servants, and Canadians are sensible enough to realise that the impossibility has its advantages. They have neither the time nor the inclination to create a lot of social duties such as are considered necessities of social suburban life at home, which would mean in Canada not only vast expense, but the eating up of invaluable time without any adequate compensation in the way of real social enjoyment. Well-to-do Canadians do not often invite mere acquaintances as guests to their homes. What they do is to put their guests up at a good hotel—and good hotels are plentiful enough, even in towns which have sprung up on the Prairie during the last twenty years. There is a surprising number of excellent hotels with a cuisine, attendance, and bedroom arrangements that any reasonable man should be satisfied with. When religious or other conferences meet in a Canadian town the delegates are not, as in this country, placed out with hosts who give them a bedroom, breakfast, and supper for three, four or more days, but the hosts send them to hotels. This practice has mutual advantages. It is not always convenient for a man to take in a stranger, though he may be an angel unawares; very often, as hosts in this country know to their cost, he is far from being an angel. But though he might be the most desirable of guests, the host, if a business or professional man, might feel it irksome to give his guest the attention he felt was due from him. On the other hand, the guest is free in the hotel to enjoy himself in his own way with fellow delegates. At several towns where I stayed there were groups of delegates to synodal meetings of religious