Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-22
WOMAN WITH A VALET.
Miss JOhnStone Bennett Employs a
Nan Instead Of a Maid.
Saws Maids ere E ussy, Have Affairs,
and are Useless in Nearly All
Emergencies Where They Are
Really Needed Miss Bennett and
the Man Tel Al About 1t.


New York Journal
A woman with a valet.
tombstone Bennett has progressed
further in -hs GdapJat Ion Of masculine
attire 10 feminine uses than any woman
Of her age.
she has starcaed shirts and mems
collars and cuffs, which are the envy Of
cnappies on Broadway.
Sia has trousers pocacts IN her skirts,
and q truly masculine fashion OF plung-
ing ler han-s INTO the pcOfunoIt.ss Oh
them.
Now she has done a thing no woman
ever did before. She has taken a valet.
Hereafter the hotel registers III towns
where she plays VIII SHOW this entry:
"Johus.0ne Bennett and man.
Whu Manager Price, making M =
trar spo~.at.on lis, of the company
which is 10 open IN Philadelphia TO-
morrow. sen. his clerk to Miss Ben
nett TO ask if she proposed taking a
maid on the road with her, this an
swer came back:
NO. I shall not take mald. l
have hired O valet
Pre-. was dumfOurded and went 10
the GrenOble Hotel 10 ask her what IN
The world she meant.
In the adjoining room, busy among
boxes and bundles, packing up little
boots and boxes of masculine neckueS,
folding dresses. coats and costumes
which on Saturday were 10 start out Tor
q season On The road. was a smailisn
trim active Young man, dressed n
serviceable back.
He had Ugh hair. pale and smooth
shaver face. fl hands and quick,
ouie- tvay of going about his business.
TIE was a well-trained servant That
was Main. s1r he apparently heard
ro-bing saw nothing except the trunks
he was az work over and the things
which he was Engaged in slowing snug
~ therein. .,,
age. ,,,,.,..
his bus.ress. lie can do more work n
an hour than any TWO maids ever had
Th.s rs no freak. It's business. ana us
the b-s- investment I've made IN years.
The only parable, 20 this case 's ,ha1
ola once weu known actor. VINO ior sew
e~ll wears kept % MAZDA tall, angular
harsh-visaged person with Jaw IKE
Su-'ivau's and shoulders lie those Oh
hotel porter.
WHAT MISS BENNETT SAYS.
To w. y. Hearst New York Journal:
.sVrs I have engaged valet. nave
done f- because maids are very useless
sort Of furniture. have tried all var.a-
flies. They are helpless in about nine OF
the emergencies a theatrical woman en-
cOun-rs.
Altoge, her they count as SO much ex-
ira baggage. They let their mistress do
all rhs work. They are more trouble
than they are worth.
"I do MOI sse anything eccentric IN
woman having d valet. She has bags,
umbrella and wraps 20 be carried.
maid has her hands full to transport her
precious SELF
A maid is no good IN a crowd. You
have TO spend much of your time finding
her. She can't make way Tor you IN a
crush. She can't attend to getting
seats. checking baggage. and thousand
Of The things that have 10 be done m
travel. She does not know how. The
extra help q woman has actually TO
hire costs more ,han the maids salary.
A maid is. In the most cases, dressy,
p0uD1us and has affairs.
~ valet has none Of these faults.
He is alert. clever, well trained, and
not afraid Of work
There are q thousand things for him
70 t0in o day. from the time he comes in
40 clean my hoes. build the fire, and lay
ont my things In the morning, until he
turns Gu, the lights and goes away at
night.
la the theatre he viii be indispensable.
Ih3ve five changes of costume in my new
act. Each must be made in forty see
0nds. With him in the wings l can
know that every garment will be ready.
s fig for what the people say about II!
People with sense Will know that 1t IS a
common sense thing 10 do.
WHAT THE VALET SAYS.
To w. r. Hearst New York Journal;
[. is all one 90 me is / am attendant
TO lady or gentleman. though perhaps
women are more eXacting than men. In
q wOm8n's wardrobe there are many tr!-
files which multiply the work necessary
10 take care OF il.
To may be, too. that a woman is more
eXact.ng in small matters. and lnds
more tc,fing things for an attendant TO
look after than man does.
But service is service, and so long as
st 49, - ~ one svtnrtO,r, of