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down rith her bundle. ANA announced th..

down with her bundles and announced that
Greatly puzzled. her mistress went. up to tn.
which was rewarded by the discovery OF a note
left, hidden under tho mattress by the tramp
terms not to attempt to stay in the house. and
accusing It's mistress and the other inmates of
since been told that this is not an uncommon
trick for servants to play, and affords another
reason for giving a thorough overhauling to tho
mont.
The various training schools and other plans
supplying domestic servants have left tho prob
lem about where It was when 1t started. Even
wers they all founded on correct principles, The
needed. or course tho root OF the evil 10 In the
largest salaries OF any in the country earn them
ey ,heir ability to handle men. That shows
and should she I'D nj not e0 Ss ieo X IS0f for in II, Py o oelI isy.
everyday housekceper.. Servants generally get
along very well in hotels and other places where
charge OF some one who Understands bosslng,
and. above all, working them according TO a
manage their servants, doubtless much OF tho
trouble would disappear. One great virtue that
has been found In servants trained at some
very much they have been taught. to do things
thoroughly and well, for an unfalllng source OF
trouble with many servants is that they do
Yet education alone by no means makes
a perfect servant. One New York woman
point. She lives in a nat and keeps only one
maid. The maid concerned in the story was tho
worst she had ever had and kept. One day sho
went out at noon, saying that she would not DO
back until evening: She returned Unexpectedly
q couple Of hours later, and was unpleasantly
surprised 70 hear some one playing tho piano In
her nat. She made up her mind that her ser
want had pronted by, her absence TO entertain
some friends. But when she made her way into
the parlor she found the maid there alone, dust
Who have you in here r demanded tho
I'm hsrsi, why. there's nobody here but my.
II heard somebody playing tho plano. Who
was II v retotned the mistress.
Tho maid Flushed. hcsitatod, and finally said
rgure. remembered all her sins OF stupidity, and
declined to believe her.
III II was really you," she said, with the air
prove 1t by sitting down at the piano and play.
The servant. looked relieved at this sentence
playing well, even brilliantly. Then by degrees
she told her story. Her father had been well of
and she had received a careful education. Then
no had lost his money, things went from bad to
worse, the family ended by breaking up, and she
had to earn her own living. So she found herself
led by circumstances to become a very poor ser
want, although she might have been the cred
table daughter OF a well-to-do man.
The most satisfactory solution of the servant
girl problem Is really the family hotel. There It
10 eliminated almost entirely from the lives OF
women who may have been tortured by IL pre-
viously. some one else ID responsible for the
service. and all that one has TO do 10 TO give ones
can stand eternal hotel life. More than one
woman who has tried II, however, has decided
that The servant girl problem Is the lesser evil OF
the two. and SO has gone back to bookkeeping
after having endured the machine.mAde luxury
and comfort OF n family hotel for q year or two.