New-York tribune., 1902-12-22

said the other partner taking up the cue For
tanning Her servants have all they do there
@ s9 Ga be spared to s9e up R c0n 20 u S hePseif
and hiring charwoulen to do it: she just sends US
clean aired and in applepie order-the beds made.
the table set for dinner flowers IN the vases grom-
Sometimes the case is reversed and we engaged
to close a house putting a summer house in order
for the winter or closing a winter house tor the
summer We charge anywhere from SO to .S SlSo TO TO
clean house One apartment We charged $50 Tor for
cleaning, but that was exceptional IN the an9unt @ m
end yalge @ Of The the m G eTynr ann p anu
We go in with corps Of chaEwomen and before
the handle of the big front door not to mention
the 6rssses cengs wa % axe Is6 s6a6 na5G and
water. We count getting s. a day eech Tor our
We have TO pay our charwomen s. a day. as they
provide their own meals Never but once mas any
matchsafe. We could never discover who took it
and it was never returned
ENTERTAINING. READING, PACKING.
As the housecleaning narrative came TO an end,
the other partner prepared to speak The idea
of entertaining children I got out Of magazine
OFTEN mothers put up at a hotel with child and
then want to go shopping and haven't any one 10
leave the pickaninny with go and amuse 1t:
read TO il play with II and give ii kindergarten
instruction II there are three four children IN
an apartment house street. take them to the
park and give them nature lessons For aA this
sort OF work charge 8 an hour. or IS a day
What is a shopping guide? Just what the Ute
signifies For example, e woman from the West
visits New-York for the first time She puts up
at some swell uptown hotel She doesn't know one
shop from another. She sends for me, and take
her around TO the best shops for what she wants
here for gloves, here for Laces dress goods or
corses somewhere else for ostrich plunaes or para
soils or tortoisesheIL Or just tell her where to
20 and how TO get there Or execute cou1nls-
sions for her.
Reading aloud-of course there's nothing new
about that Often it's pleasant work. but some
times it's dreary enough, as when you nave % 10
tackle law reports But generally its the news news
uapers the invalid wants. ! read french as wen
as English Sometimes one IS engaged just 20
ak TO the patient. AS visiting secretaries we
al every morning or afternoon for while. keep
our clients visiting list, write her s1aII notes o.
regret and acceptance send out her ilVltdIioIlS'
make out checks. pay bills, etc . -.
s.65irls' fashionable schools are good patrons or
chaDerons as pupils always going to the den
fisC or shopping to the matinee, or Tor a music
lesson something The teachers oIten can L S os
a professional chaperon has to be engaged 80.
backing is another branch Of our general ulluty
business. Pack ali the things IN TINS c19sef anu
mai dressing table to go to Newport Pack the
Contents of those two closets in the wicker trunk
10 90 TO Europe, in the hold, and the man thLhgS
YOU find in the anteroon in the steamer Iru!lh ~ ~
the work is done. But. Of course, any expert couiH
do the same ,,.. - ,,,-as small cani-
tai but considerable staying power large pIysicst
S4-ang+b and irnnlense mental fexibilty: One has
~ Eeen skDpirg about from occupation 10 an
o+l1er never forgetting that TO make ones sen
agreeable the first duty OF a ldy me idL ei II
ircIs Of ACQUAINTANCE, the better, but only Wei
ra-do acouaintances count, poor people can a.
FORD TO hire US NewYork is large pace Iit Witit
great many rich people in it The general nI4!Ly
creas5e @ Clientele if he only knows how TO find and
keen