Such distinctions are made, all the world over: in Virginia, as well as elsewhere. A Southron, not accustomed to wait much upon himself, here feels sensibly the scantiness of the personal service he meets with. Even I--though for years more than half a Yankee in that respect--missed, rather awkwardly, on first coming hither, the superfluous, and often cumbersome attentions of our southern waiters. Besides having frequently to brush my own clothes, I am put to some special trouble in the best hotels, to get my shoes cleaned. In many village inns, sumptuous and comfortable in most respects, this last is a luxury hardly to be hoped for. This scarcity of menial service arises partly from the nice economy, with which the number of hands about a house is graduated to the general, and smallest possible, quantity of necessary labor; and partly, from a growing aversion to such services among the "help" themselves, caused, or greatly heightened, by the increased demand and higher wages for them in the numerous manufactories throughout the country. Almost every where, I am told of their asking higher pay, and growing more fastidious, and intractable, as household servants. "_Servants_" indeed, they will not allow themselves to be called. A "marry-come-up-ish" toss, if not an immediate quitting of the house, is the probable consequence of so terming them. The above, more creditable designation, is that which must be used--at least in their presence. By the by, though the gifted author of "Hope Leslie" says that the _singular_ plural, "help," alone, is proper, I find popular usage ("_quem penes arbitrium_"--you know) sanctioning the regular plural form "helps," whenever reference is made to more than one.