The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-26
SERVANT PROBLEM SOLVED.
Novel scheme of a Chicago Woman which
Satisfied employer and Employed.

Novel scheme of n Chicago Woman which
Satisfied employer and Employed.
From the Chicago Record.
There Is at least one woman in Chi
cago who has solved the question of
household help to her satisfaction. and
there is one girl who feels satisfied
with her position.
The woman in question has tried all
kinds of help. from the raw Swedish or
Irish article TO the clever American.
who knew far too much to be a good
maid, and she was i'm despair. She was
not exactly an invalid. but she was
rather delicate. and she needed an as
sistant who could be depended upon to
look after things during her illness or
in her absence from home. Then, too.
she was much alone and sometimes she
felt the need of companionship which
all childless housekcepers have expert
enced. Impertinence. slackness. poor
work and undue familiarity had been
the only results she had obtained I'm
her efforts toward elevating the freaks
with whom she labored. Still. her faith
in her sex remained triumphant. and
she was as positive as ever that the
girl she was seeking existed some
where; just how to find her she did
not know.
why don't you begin at the other
end of the problem her husband sug-
find plenty OF nice girls who would be
willing to do the work IL you paid them
well enough. and who would be com
panionable enough, too. II you treated
them nicely"
But / should have to make such
girl as you speak of one OF the family"
she said, obviously.
We'll. why not?" said the husband.
with all a mans disregard OF conven-
tionality. "A real nice girl who would
be nice enough for you to take TO and
make a companion while / am away.
would have sufficient good taste not
To be in the way when l am at home.
and that's what you are afraid Of. l
know"
The wife made no answer. but the
following week she inserted an adver-
tisement I'm n morning paper and
awaited results. The advertisement
read as follows:
WANTED-A nice. cOmpanionable
young lady to do general homework
Ono washing) for a family OF two;
must be refined and quiet.
Now, IL happened that the very girl
she longed for saw and answered her
advertisement. The girl had come TO
Chicago more than year before, and.
being unframed. had taken position
in a necktie factory. BY dint of CON
slant work she had reached a salary OF
So a week. but she had ruined her
health. To do more than live upon her
salary she found impossible, for good
board I'm a refined household could not
be had for less than s. a week. Car
fare and lunches consumed another
81 80, and to dress upon the scanty bal
ance would be impossible as soon as
the wardrobe which she had brought
with her was worn out. She had no
home, no friends. and nothing to fall
back upon. The advertisement Of the
woman who wanted an exceptional
/ household assistant suggested a new
though startling idea 10 the girl. who
had never dreamed of working I'm any
kitchen save her mothers, or her own.
Still, after a little hesitation, she an
swered the advertisement
Her letter pleased the housekeeper
who had advertised. and after an inter
view they were mutually pleased.
/ All this happened more than a year
ago. and they are still pleased. The
I girl has room nearly as good as that
( of the mistress Of the house; many OF
+ her employers friends are her friends
and when these friends call upon her
she receives them in the parlor; her
I employers never dream OF speaking OF
her to strangers by her first
name: when her employers are alb
sent from home she is at liberty to In
wife some one TO stay with her. and she
4 often accompanies her employers to So
cial or church entertainments.
on the other hand, the girl does the
household work as IL has never been
done before. with touches of dainty at
tention which are constant surprises "a
her employers. She takes all the cares
I OF housekeeping of the shoulders OF
I her mistress. and does not grudge the
. time spent i'm preparing dainty meals
She does the work I'm her own fashion
and at her own time and she does not
. insist upon being with her employers
/ at all times. Her own room Is quite
. pleasant enough 20 spend an evening
. in now and then. and she realizes thai
the most delightful guest Is better ap-
preciated for occasional absences. She
sits with them at meals when they are
quite alone. looking after the tabls
+ service. Of course. but when guests art
present she prefers TO wait upon them
She brides herself upon being always
neat, and she never appears In com
pany unlimited. although frequently
assured OF her invariable welcome.
Both employers and employe treat
one another with the courtesy and con
sideration due from one refined person
to another, and the only cloud upon ths
horizon Is due TO the attentions OF a
certain young friend Of the family who
. is supposed 10 be DESTROYS OF trans
planting the happy girl TO home Of
her own-and his. Both the girl and
her employers think they have SOLVED
the problem of household assistance
and the experiment IL certainly worti
trying by other troubled hOusek eep'
ers.
4 remarkable flow OF water from arc
/ sian wells Is had in the neighborho0d OF
. Chamberlain. :. d. where very recently