The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-25
Tie Superior Maid.


4 waiting maid should not max. ber
appearance in the dining-room until after
the guests are seated.
Napkins should always he folded as
Simplv~a4 possible Fahriful SHAPES suy
gest the hotel and restaurant.
Always place tumblers to the right and
fill only thrce-quarters full.
In setting the table the tines of the
forks should he turned up and the sharp
cdg" of the knife blade toward tll,. pa1r.
placing tn" fork next the plate
Place the cup containing coffee to the
right of each person; offer sugar and
cream to the left.
Always in offering anything to guest
go to the left. allowing the person served
to Use the right hand.
Any dish from which Il person he.ps
himself must b" offered ut the left Those
from which the maid serves must he
placed at the right.
Everything relating to one course must
be removed before serving another
course.
Always; go to the right of each person to
remove the dishes.
The waiting maid must h, responsible
for the proper heating of dishes before
they are brought to the table
Except in cases of accident which she
cannot remedy a maid should never sneak
to the hostess. who should be looked upon
as a guest at her own table for the time
being. and treated accordingly
A maid who is watchful will never nor
NIT one guest to help another in the pass-
ing of food.
Avoid all appearance of haste, though
one must move quickly in order to accom-
plish all there is to be dOne-New York
Morning Journal.
Smith College Laundry.
&c <l,o S,fr~
Smith college is its laundry. Some years
since the enterprising faculty. thinking to
encompass even clean clothes by the all
enfOlding campus. put up hi. steam
Laundry, which the girls were required by
collegiate compulsion to patronize This
very many of them refused to do Their
reasons were simply that the steam affair
charged more than the washwomen. and
also that it didn't give good work no mat
ter what price was paid. NightgownS
and prtticOats would come home at the
weeks end almost as dirty ~ when they
went in, and often they became unnece>-
sslrly torn and buttonless besides. All
sorts of ingenious plans to circumvcnt the
faculty and their steam laundry were
therefore devised Soon the Northamp-
ton washwomen fell into the habit of cas-
ually crossing the college campus about
dusk of Sunday evening. and then. if
they should happen to- find bundles of no.
body knows just what-ltS barely pOSSi-
bic, of course. that they contained soiled
clothing-undcr tree or behind a bench.
why. it was nobody's business surely.
Sometimes the washwomen would hang
about the dormitories until it got quit"
dark and undistinguishab.e indeed. when
Il bag much stuffed with something would
be cautiously let down by string from
an upper window Again. the girls them
selves would sneak their sniied clothes
out of the campus. in this way carrying
them to the laundress. The steam laun-
Try drs better work now than it used to,
but it isn't yet overly popular. and almost
any Sabbath evening ut Smiths scores
Of mai'ens may be seen quietly leaving
the campuS--not TO attend veSper service:
oh. dear. no, They creep stcalthiIy along
Il fat bundle humping at their sides as
they wrnd their respective ways TO a tryst
with some faithful washwcmau