The cook was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go, she X went. Saki's epigram, from Reginald on Besetting Sins, has lasted well, but when it was published in 1904, readers would have felt not just its wit but its bite. This was the era of Britain's Servant Problem: middle-class dinner parties buzzed not with school admissions and house prices but with the shortage of decent help, and its tendency to stalk off at the slightest provocation. (The cook in question drank, and on a raw Wednesday morning, in a few ill-chosen words, her mistress had said so to her face.) Cooks always drank. Too often tyrant, virago and frequently heavy drinker, all in one, they get their own chapter in The Servant Problem: An Attempt at its Solution, published in 1899. The description of the problem-cases of disease and deformity caused by the inefficiency and carelessness of nurses and nursemaids, bold-faced girls in employment agencies with the cheek to question prospective employers about hours and perks-is more convincing than the solution: homes where ladies would be cared for by apprentice maids. Servants have broken my spirit and ruined my health, one friend tells the author, who went under the name of An Experienced Mistress. They are necessary evils, another moans.
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机译：厨师是个好厨师，随着厨师的流逝，随着厨师的流逝，她X也去了。萨基（Saki）的诗句源于Reginald on Betting Sins，历时不错，但是当它于1904年出版时，读者不仅会感觉到它的机智，而且会被它咬住。那是英国仆人问题的时代：中产阶级的晚宴聚会不是因为入学和房价上涨而引起的，而是由于缺乏体面的帮助，而且它趋于轻描淡写的倾向。 （有问题的厨师喝了酒，而在一个原始的星期三早晨，她的情妇对她的表情说得有些不对劲。）暴君，处女座和经常酗酒的人太过合而为一，他们在1899年出版的《仆人问题：解决问题的尝试》一书中有自己的一章。由于效率低下而导致疾病和畸形的问题案例的描述。护士和女仆的粗心大意，职业介绍所中大胆的女孩脸颊向准雇主询问时间和津贴，这比解决方案更具说服力：女仆将由女仆照料的房屋。一位朋友告诉撰文人，仆人打碎了我的精神，毁了我的健康，他以一位有经验的情妇的名义去了。他们是必不可少的罪恶，又是mo吟。
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