The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-06-21
NEW SOCIAL FIELD.
LATEST DEVELOPMENT Is VISIT.
ING SECRETARY TO soCl-
ETY. LADIES.

latest ueVelOpmenL Oh mOueIu uoy -
quirements. very fundamental help |
er in matters of Importance to social
aspirants, she supplies. amenities 10 |
patrons of the well-to-do class, and |
edges into households where the pr-
vate-lessons professor or the current
topics reader would not have a gnost
of a chance for business. Indeed, she
prepares the ground for these workers.
and they and the parlor lecturer pro-
fit much from her services.
Visiting secretary to society ladies.
Neglected education a speciality. Tact
and social experience unexcelled. En-
tirely Trustworthy and confidential,
Is inscribed upon the experts an
nouncement cards These cards are
left at the shops of the smartest tail
ors, milliners and fashionable outnt-
tiers frequented by wealthy women.
Customers to whom such expert SER
vice would be boon, spy the cards.
Correspondence and engagements en-
sue, and the field widens of itself.
According to one of the pioneers In
this specially, there are scores OF I'M
lettered women occupying fine homes
in the big cities today who realize
their lack of early training, and wouid
fain rectify the deficiency.
MANY women are unable to write
creditably their social notes ana let
tiers. Others are in like case as 10 the
business letters that come first in Inn
| portance to them. 1t surprises no
body that woman with shopping,
calling, supper parties and theatres
dressmaking and milliners to attend
to has no time to spare for her CORE
spondence. 1t sounds well to have
private secretary. Mrs. x. couldn't
afford to keep one all the time MIS-.
z. couldn't keep one occupied even IL
she wished to add to her dependents.
Besides Mrs. D. Is not displeased TO
find that the same mind and pen thaC
does her neighbours correspondence
the high-placed neighbor whom she
does not know, but would like to know
does hers. So the expert visits by
the hour, or hour and half, daily or
trl-weekly a number of patrons.
Secrets? Well, | absorb few as
go along" such a useful lieutenant
said lately. Neither the family phy-
stefan nor the household minister
come as near to the core of things as
| do. The lady's maid is wiseacre,
of course, but she has only lady
maids intuition. and can only grasp
the things in her world. l get the
sort of condolences that win on my
sympathy.
"T feel so much contenteder after
you've been here one of my pretty
g. ~ DOnk me the other day. And
We re me your telephone num-
-, IN, go that when get a
a9 About yeaIar NOTE -.e--a-.-,.- yo,,
can Come 50 me. And, later on, after
had Strengthened some accounts for
her and written letter or two, she
looked at me wistfully and said, You
must have terrible good education.
| wish I knew so much
This client began life as nurse
maid in Canada. Then drifted to a
hotel in big town and worked until
she became pastry cook, eventually set
up a boarding house in New York,
married rich foreigner who boarded
with her, and is now a retired rich
widow setting her cap for bachelor
who seems to be her steady cavalier.
For all her illiterateness she is an
attractive woman when dressed right
I'm her right-hand adviser in satorial
matters, and I've come in a measure
to be her moral adviser. She'll tell
me things that she wouldn't tell her
friends. And I've discovered her to be
fond OF high living and enlivening
drinks.
You'll never be anybody If you do
that! told her one day. You haven't
got position enough to afford 1t, and it
will ruin your looks This patron de-
ponds on me so much that she would
gladly pay me double my hours wages.
Another woman whom | serve is
the wife of lawyer of good position
who frankly owns that she abhorred
books and writing when at school and
can't write a letter correctly to this
day.
"I can't spell!' she says, and the
minute l get pen in my hand I'm a
fool. | hate books, and it wouldn't
hudtIeI uuly my HuSUduu loves Jlem,
He reads legends and old-time poetry
classics, he calls them-to the chill
dren, and feel left out and as though
only the housekeeper and frock de-
signer for the family. My husband
married me out of first-class Broad
way shop where was a buyer of mil
| linery and doing we'll
1.-TWO different professors of litera-
ture have attempted to give me les
sons, but l lack the knowledge that
would make such things interesting.
I'm a modern woman | hate old
things-old houses, cathedrals and all
that. / like everything fresh-painted
and up to date. My relations-in-law
think me sadly lacking. and If you can
help me to like reading the correct
things I'll pay you literally
"a little woman in an uptown apart
ment has engaged me to help her con-
quer her shyness and diffidence with
strangers.
I'm educated. and here at home |
do very well.' she says, but don't |
show off. l can't entertain or make |
nearly as good appearance as women |
with half my knowledge. l get
tangled and say the very things |
should not when company is present.
and it worries my husband, who is |
very social and would enjoy entertain
ing if his wife was the proper hostess
I'm trying faithfully to inspire this
woman with confidence in her own
mowers and enjoy nv hours with her