Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-20
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Bellies of the Kitchen.

SAo PiophietoI Ol leWeler .
} store called reporters attention to two
customers who were departing with quiet
dignity after having made some Dur.
chases. 1--WE think great deal of sucb
} customers here, he said, Though they
are only servant girls. Their taste in
Iewelry Is often equal to their mistresses
sometimes superior. They are NOT
led away by the follies of the too utterIv
intensely intense. l know many ladies
who never buy our kind of goods with
out first consulting with their maids"
''Do you do much business with the
maids themselves ?"
Considerable; some of it is ON the
lady's account, some on the maids and
some on their joint account. / do mucb
repairing for servants who have broken
or indented expensive pieces of plate
The gris always want them well repair
ed, and do not stand at expense. Besides
L often receive very valuable ievelrv
from servants, who will offer to pav al.
most any charge if they can have il re-
paired at once, and in such a way that
the INJURY will not be perceived These
customers are very nervous. and I al.
ways know that they have been wearino
their mist<esses' iewelry to a WAITING
maids ball. In New York there's n oooJ
deal of high life in the kitchen. just af-
ter the holidays L had an expensive ear
ring brought me to match. The servant
had lostits fellow at ball Some months
ago fine looking lady's maid came in
and described infinitely a handsome
brooch that she had lost, and L was di
rected to spare no expense in replacing
1t at once. She tried to appear like 3
fashlonable woman, and played her part
well; but had seen her too often pass
Ing the store wheeling baby carriage
not to know who she was"
"lt will be expensive, " said l. ''to do
this hunting up, and will require an e,-
pert; why not advertise for the one Won
have lost"
"Oh, dear, no y she said, hastily, at
Wouldn't mean must have it at ths
earliest possible moment"
You see, sir" continued the ieweIer.
"she knew the loss might be discovered
if the lady read the paper"
"How much did it cost the girl?"
II made it light, $50, charging inst
So for my time. The girl was very CRATE
full, and ii turned out a good thing for
me. She brought me all he famiIv's re-
pairing and some other paying work.
It's good plan for us to treat the ladies'
maids well.
These girls must have money"
They get well paid and MANY per-
quisites. All of them have nice nest
egg, until they are foolish enough to oct
married. The smaller jewellers all ike
to have their trade, and they do not buy
so much cheap jewelry as You might
suppose. Their trade is often worth
more to us than their mistress. You
would be surprised to see how nv lady
Will maggie over trrifiing sum for re-
pairing that the maid would be too
proud to dispute. Then, too, the rich
woman, when she wants something new
and stylish, won't go to the small ieweler.
who has, perhaps, been losing money on
her repairing, but to one of the greater
houses, where she will seldom do as
well. AT their parties the maids are
bound to have everybody know they've
got on their mistresses' Jewels, but you'd
get bad result if you Just hinted that
their clothes We're not their own. Some
times 1 think that they own up to the
Iewelry, because people would know
they couldn't afford to have such expen-
sive things of their own. They almost
always put on their ladies' manners with
their lewelry, very often call themselves.
by their mistresses' names and gu
through the upper-ten ceremonies in the
grandest style you ever saw"
$50 you have seen some of these par
ties?"
''Often. The maids cannot always
get at their mistresses' jewelry, though
they use all sorts of lodges to get at il.
Then they come to ME and hire NV
goods, and / go to the party to keep my
eye on the stock, for they are not al
ways able to pay a full deposit"
''What are the lodges resorted to by
maids who want to get hold of their mis-
stresses jewelry for an EVENING""
''There are many of them. One of the
safest is to pick up brooch and sudden
ly find that one of the stones is loose.
I've known them to loosen a large dia-
mond Just to get possession of the arti-
Gle of iewelry, and then come to me-
hastily to have it tightened for tho
nights wear. Then in the morning the
maid will loosen it again, and bring it
for me to pinch it up once more On the
second occasion am directed to send
it home please, and so it gets back to
the hands of my lady Sometimes they
will break or bend out a clasp"
'How do you get such accurate infor-
nation on the subject ?"
young man, if you would Just call in
here some morning, right after a fash
enable ladies' maids party, and watch the
quantity Of splendid iewelry that is
brought here for the most trivial kind of
you wouldn't ask that ques-
hon"
"Did you ever make an estimate of
he value of the diamonds and jewelry
worn on any single occasion of this kind
rou name?'
81 made three estimates-iust for my
,wn amusement-at the most fashion
lble affairs held last winter; not very
arge, but select. The figures do not