The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-24

olate cream to slice OF roast beef. The
advantage of the slot machine Is that IT
dispenses with feeling. These ere no
waters and hence no fees. and this
where one has TO pay from 2 tents to
dim, for every service, amounts 10 much
German Economy.
The Germans appreciate small savings.
The richer among them spend great
deal but they know just whore the money
goes and try to get the worth OF IT. me
poor get more for their money perhaps
than any other poor in Europe outside the
French. They know how to prevent waste
In cooking nothing is lost. The crusts OF
bread and stale pieces of tho loaf are
kept to thickcn tho next days soup ana
the waste paper of the poor man Is kept
for fuel
German stoves are economical They are
made OF porcelain and are often n yard
square and from six to eight feet tall.
Each stove has n series of fiues ana
very little fuel sufilces to warm 1t. once
hot is gives out Il gentle heat all Gay,
using about one-third the coal of an
American base burner and nothing like
that of n furnace. Every bit of coal Is
saved and great part Of that now used
Is In the shape of briquettes or bricks
made OF cold dust, so tightly pressed that
they nre as hard as the coal itself and
at the same time perfectly clean. This
Is great business in Germany.
Cheap House Servants.
Tho Germans have better system OF
domestic service than we have. In Leip-
sig and other German cities the people
live In fats so that the most OF the work
Is confined to one floor. Every room Is
valuable and tho servant usually has lit
tie more than n closet to sleep in Tho
mistress OF the house knows all about
housekeeping, that being n part of every
German girls education, and she watch
es to see that no food Is wasted. Tho
servants are seldom given the same food
MS the family and among some 1t Is Gus
tomary to give the hired girl an allow
nnce OF two or three cents for her supper
and let her buy 1t outside. If there is
fruit on the table 1t seldom goes out to
the Kitchen.
I am much interested In the employ
ment agencies here. Each town has ono
or more such institutions supported by
low charges upon employers and en-
ployes. The charge is about IL cents for
getting servant and half that amount
to the servant who wants q place. Tho
laws provide that every servant shall
have a record or pass book telling where
she was born, her age and previous ser.
vitude. 1t must have the records or the
places she has worked and the sigma
lures OF her former employers testifying
to her character The police must stamp
every record showing that 1t Is correct.
A dollar n week Is n big price for q
hired girl. and at one OF the agencies
was told that excellent servants could
be had from $3.50 to 81 per month. The
servants In these bureaus looked like
good girls. They were we'll dressed.
though not M extravagantly as their
Glass in America.
Housekeeping Schools.
There are many schools here for train
ing servant girls. Berlin has an organi-
cation known as the Housewives Union
which devotes itself to such things. It
gives prizes for good servants, reward
ing every girl who stays five years at
one place with a little gold pin and a
memorial; and after ten years a second