Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-14
SOLVED THE SERVANT PROBLEM.
Scheme of u Chicago Woman Which
Satisfied Employer and Employed.

Scheme of u Chicago Woman Which
Satisfied Employer and Employed.
From the Chicago Record
There Is at least one woman In Chicago
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 had tried all
kinds of help. from the raw Swedish or
Irish article to the clever American, who
knew far too much to be good maid, and
she was in despair She was not exactly
an invalid, but she was rather delicate, and
she needed an assistant who could be de-
pended upon to look after things during
her Illness, or in her absence from home.
Then, too, she was much alone, and some
times she felt the need Of companionship
which all childless housekeepers have ex-
perienced. Impertinence, sackness, poor
work, and undue famili lrity had been the
only results she had obtained in ner efforts
toward elevating the freaks with whom
she labored. Still her faith in her sex re-
manned triumphant; ln'i she was as posi-
tive as 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 suggested.
Seems to me that You might find plenty of
work if you paid them well enough. and
who would be compan:oalple enough, too,
If you treated them nicely"
But l 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 convention atty
"A real nice girl. who would he nice enoug h
Tor you to take to and make companion
OF While l am away, woIid have sufficient
good taste not to be in tine way when l am
at home. and that's wat you arc afraid
Of, l know" d"
bn x.-ifo r,
lowing week she inserted an advertisement
In a morning paper and awaited results
The advertisement read as follows:
WANTED-A NICE, COMMEMORATIVE
young lady to do general house work mo
washiig) for a family of two; must be re-
fined and quiet.
Now, it happened that the very girl she
longed for saw and answered her alyer-
tisement The girl had come to Chicago
more than year before. and, being I'M
trained, had taken a position in q necktia
factory. By dint of constant work she lad
reached L salary of s. a week, bat she had
ruined her health. To do more than live
upon her salary she found Impossible, for
good board in refined household could l. OF
be had for less than s. Il week Car fare
ana lunches consumed another $1.5O and to
dress upon the scany balance Woull he
Impossible so soon as the wardrobe which
sne mad brought with her was worn out
she mad no home. no friends, and nothing
to fall back upon. The advertisement Of
the woman who wanted an exceptional
nousehoid assistant suggested a new
though startling idea to the girl, who had
never dreamed of working in any kitchen
save her mothers, or her own. Still after
a httle hesitation she answered the adyer-
tisement.
Her letter pleased the housekeapar who
had advertised and after an interyiew ,hav
were mutually pleased @'
All iris happened more than a year ago
and they are still pleased The girl has q
& hat of
OF the mouse; many of her emn,oyer's
friends are her friends, and when fhesa
friends call upon her she receives them in
the parlor; her employers never drean, oF
speaking of her to strangers by her fret
name; when her employers are absent from
nome she Is at liberty TO invite some one to
stay with her. and she often accorepan MES
her employers to social or church entars
tsinments. s'ei
On the other hand the girl does the
household work as it has never been done
before, with touches of dainty attention
when are constant surprises to her en-
pioyers She takes all the cares of house.
Keeping Off the shoulders of her mistress
ana does not grudge the time spent in IRE,
paring dainty meals. She does the work in
n ner own 1ashion and at her own time, and
she does not insist upon being with her
employers at all times. Her own room "a
quite pleasant enough to spend an EVENING
In now and then, and she realizes that the
most delightful guest is better annroci,+o5
1or occasional absences. She sits with them
at meals when they are quite alone look
Ing after the table service of course Int
when guests are present she prefers to
walt upon them. She prides herself rnon
being always neat, and she never annears
In company urinvited although frequently
assured of her invariable welcome.
Both employers and employee treat one
another. with the courtesy and considera
ton due from one refined person to aneth-
er, ana the only cloud upon the horizon is
que 10 the attentions of certain Young
friend of the family who is supposed to he
DESTROYS of transplanting the happy girl to
home of her ownr-and his Both the girl
ana her EMPLOYERS sthlnk they have solved
the problem of household assistance and
the experiment is certainly worth irving nv