[Footnote 173-8: Thus _Parkinson_, A Tour in America, complains that with four servants in the house, he was obliged to polish his own shoes, and with his wife and children to milk the cows, while his people were still asleep. Strange servants bringing a message, come in with their hats on. All domestics are called mister or misses. Servant maids are called "helps," and their masters, "employers." If a person at a hotel asks for a laundress, he is answered: "Yes, man, I will get a lady to wash your clothes." Similarly in _Fowler_, Lights and Shadows,... three Years' Experience in Australia. But, at the same time, it is remarkable how seldom a native born white American accepts a fee. On the other hand, Russia is the classic land of fees. There is a popular story in that country to the effect that when God divided the earth among the different nations, they were all satisfied except the Russians, who begged a little drink-money or fee in addition, (_von Haxthausen_, Studien, I, 70.) Similarly in Egypt. (_Ebers_, Durch Gosen zum Sinai, 1873, 31 seq.) The system of feeing servants holds a middle place between the modern system of paying for everything lawfully and the medieval system in which people either rob, donate or beg.] [Footnote 173-9: Compare _Garve_ in _Macfarlan_, 90. The wages of English wool workers in 1831 amounted to: _Tax per capita of the_ _population for_ _In_ _support of the poor._ Leeds, 22---22½s. 5s. 7d. Gloucester, 13---15¼s. 8s. 8d. Somerset, 16¾--19¾s. 8s. 9d. Wilts, 13-7/12--15-5/12s. 16s. 6d. _Ure_, Philosophy of Manufactures, 476. After an enthusiastic eulogy of high wages, _McCulloch_ remarks especially that the English poor rates cost more than if the laborers were obliged to provide for themselves by getting higher wages. (Principles, III, 7.) Sad results of the system which came into vogue in the South of England in 1795, to supplement wages according to the price of corn and the number of children. Previously the laboring classes married only after the age of 25 and even at 35, and not until they had saved from £40 to £50. After the above mentioned system was adopted, even minors married. (Edinburg Review, LIII, 4, 7.)]