Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-05
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: A new FIELD OF F,
: WORK FOR WOMEN ;

In which to branch out for herself, has
discovered a new field in which she can
work, both with pleasure to herself
and profit to her employer.
She calls herself, in this new occu-
patton, nonresident housekeeper,
and she Is all that the name implies
She finds her engagement book fairly
filled in the winter, but 1t is in the
summer that she reaps her harvest.
In the winter she has among her
patrons women fairly well-to-do. with
many social and club interests-wo-
men who are really too busy to look
after the details of their housekeeping
yet cannot afford to keep a regular
housekeeper. on the other hand II
such matters are left to the average
servant, the household machinery runs
with many bitches. To such women
comes the nonresident housekeeper.
She does all the marketing. If desired
oversees the work of the servants,
looks after the details of the laundry,
whether II is done in the house or not.
In fact. is the housekeeper for such
hours of the day as she is needed. lr
the mistress OF the house is giving a
dinner or a luncheon. all she does is to
give the number of guests. and the
nonresident housekeeper attends to all
details and sees that the meal is prop
erly served.
In the summer time, however. is her
harvest. Many women who might feel
they could not afford her services in tho
winter. are only too glad to be relieved
in the summer, when they go away for
rest. She goes to some resort and
engages to serve as many women as
she can in this capacity. Then the
mistress Of the summer home enjoys
herself. and the nonresident house
keeper superlntends matters. She Or
ders all the needed groceries from the
city, engages servants IL some leave
Unexpectedly, and, in fact, keeps the
machinery of the summer home run
ping smoothly.
OF course. she must be scrupulously
honest. She must thoroughly under
stand all the details OF housekeeping
and have executive ability of an un-
usual degree. She must be able to
manage servants. But there are plenty
, OF such women who are longing ia
find something to do which will not
take them all the time from their own
home.
Many women thrown unexpectedly
on their own resources, and having no
special business training. are at loss
how to earn their bread and butter.
Here is a door then can enter. IL they
will put open It,
Hea. drn "a "a HAHEH ma
can cheese and he said, is that all?'
THAT made me huffy, and | said,
That Is all this evening, just as II
owned that whole place, and he went
off. On his way to get that cheese he
stopped and whispered to all the other
walters and they all looked at me and
grinned
We'll, strung that cheese out as
long as could, taking little bites and
watching dad and wondering what he
had and how 1t would taste. | don't
like cheese, anyhow. BY and by | got
through. intended to sit there, but
there was a lot of folks there and the
waiter kept asking me II wanted any.
thing else. ! guess he asked me ten
times and began to wish wasn't
there. Pretty soon he gave me a
check for Is cents and | gave him my
quarter. He seemed to think that's
all there was to 1t, so | got up and
hung around the corner for my ten
cents. That waiter forgot all about it,
so | finallq asked for it. He gave 1t
to me, but seemed kind of surprised.
Then slipped out and waited
across the street for dad. It seemed
like an hour before he came out. He
took the first car that came along and
We got on the same boat.
Then the funniest thing happened
you ever heard of. There weren't any
wagons on that boat and nobody in the
middle part for horses. I'll be hanged
II dad didn't go in there all alone and
begin saying over some of the funny
things they had said at the show. Then
he whlstled some ragtime and kept
kicking up and dancing back and
forth across the boat like they did in
the show.
Il thought would bust then, but the
best of all was when dad took a run
and fell down head first on purpose
just like fellow sliding for base. He
was practicing doing what the dummy
In the yellow coat did. Then the boat
bumped into the slip and dad went
right pa st me. | heard him kinder
talking to himself and saying he guess.
ed he could be funny and cheerful
round the house II he tried.
Il heard dad and ma talking in their
'oom that night, but couldn't hear what
they said, only | heard 'em both |
laugh and was tickled to death. But
lads whole plan was ruined in the
Ma and me got to the table first as
usual and waited for dad. We heard
lin whlstllng in the other room, try
ng to work up gradual, suppose, to
being real lively. Ma looked pleased
Is pie. In minute dad came through
he hall and just as he reached the din.
ng room he gave yell and fell fiat.
1T was the dummy trick and roar.
ID. Ma gave me cum, and kneelea
light down on the floor side of dad
md said: oh, John, are you hurt?