The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-22
A PROBLEM SOLVED.
TWO CHICAGO WOMEN SETTLE The
SERVANT GILL QUESTION.


II You Can Find the Eisht Girl Give
the Plan Trial.
There is at least one woman in Chicc-
20 who has solved hoquestion of house.
hold help TO her satisfaction. and there
is ono girl who feels satisfied with her
position.
The woman in question had tried all
kinds of help, from the raw Swedish or
Irish article to the clever American, who
knew far too much 10 be good maid,
and she was in despair. She was not ex-
actly an invalid, but she was rather deli
cato, and she needed an assistant who
could be depended upon to look after
things during her illness or in her alb
sence from home Then, too, she was
much alono. and sometimes she felt the
need of companionsAip which all child |
less housekeepers have experienced. I'M
pertinence, slackness, poor work and
undue familiarity had been the only re-
suits she had obtained in her efforts to. |
ward elevating the freaks with whom |
she labored. Still her faith in her sex
remained triumphant, and she was as
| positive Us ever that the girl she was |
seeking existed somewhere. just how to |
find her she did not know.
why don't you begin at the other |
end of the problem?" her husband sug-
gested. Seems to me that you might
find plenty of nice girls who would be
willing to do the work if you paid them
we'll enough, and who would be COM
panionable enough, too, if you treated
them nicely"
"Rut l should have TO make such a
girl as you speak of one of the family"
she said obviously.
well, why not?" said the husband, |
with all mans disregard Of conven-
tionality. A real nice girl, who would
be nice enough for yon to take to and |
make companion Of while / am
away, would have sufficient good taste
not to be in the way when am at home, |
and that's what you are afraid of, ]
know"
The wife made no answer, but the
following week she inserted an adver-
tisement IN morning paper and await
cd results. The advertisement read as
follows:
Wanted-A nice, companionablo young lady
TO do general housework Ono washing) for q
family OF two. Must be refined and quiet
Now, 1t happened that the very girl
she longed for saw and answered her
advertisement. Tho girl had come 10 !
Chicago more than year before, and :
being unframed had taken position i
In necktie factory. BY dint of constant +
work she had reached salary Of IS q 4
week, but she had ruined her health.
To do more than live upon her salary t
she found impossible, for good board in
refined household could net be had for
less than So a week. Car fare and
lunches consumed another $500, and 10 =
dress upon the scanty balance would
DO impossible so soon as the wardrobe
which she had brought with her was
worn out. She had 10 home, no friends.
and nothing to fall back upon. The ad- r.
vertisement Of the woman who wanted IN
f.n exceptional household assistant sug. u
gested new though startling idea Ia
the girl, who had never dreamed OF
working i'll any kitchen save her moth 1
er's or her own. Still, after a little y
hesitation she answered the advertise =
ment.
Her letter pleased tho housekeeper I
who had advertised, and after IN inter
view they were mutually pleased.
All this happened more than year =,
'So, and they are still pleased. The girl
las room nearly rs good az that of the !
distress of the house Many of her en- X
iioyers' friends are her friends. and Hi
when these friends call upon her she re. ca
'oives them in tho parlor. Her employ. -
rs never dream Of speaking Of her tc
trangers by her first name. When her
Employers are absent from home, she is
c liberty to invite some one to stay with
Ter, and she often accompanies her en-. ii
ioyers to social or church entertain
nents. p
On the other hand, the girl does the TOT
ousehold work as it has never boen -
one before, with touches of dainty at.
,htlon winch are constant surprises 10 20.
er employers. She takes all tho coree 4
housekeeping off the shoulders of her 4
distress and does not grudge tbe time
'ent III preparing dainty meals She /
oes the WORK IN her own fashion and at
or own time, and She does not insist y
pom being with her employers nj all
mes. Her own room is quito pleasant -
Tough to spend an evening in now and ~
zen, aud she realizes that the most de. -
ghtful guest Is better appreciated for
'casional absences. She sits with Them ~
meals when they are quite alone. lool, ~
z after the table service, of course
1t when guests are present she prefers T
walt upon them. She prides herself wol
ion being always neat, and she never and
pears III company uninvited. altbonob tho,
equently assured of her invariable wei.
me. rept
Both employers and employee traa, Inc
Q another with tho courtesy and con. mos
ieration due from one refined person patti
another. and the only cloud upon tbo IL
rizon is due TO the attentions of q cor. will
ID young friend of the family vino Is gan.
pposed to be DESTROYS Of transnlontino en-
happy girl to home of her own n""
his. Both the girl and her emnIov. pee
think they have solved the problem TO 81
household assistance, and the exne,i' thes'
mt is certainly worth trying by othe, ton
ubied housekeepers. Chicago Rec
l. noc'