Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-07-21
FRIEND I'M NEED.
New York Woman Makes Profession Of
Attending 10 Little Details Which
Worrv Teachers.

1t is not Mt all IN uuusuai thing for
people, particularly ont-of-cowu people,
to ind themselves N a position where
some slight service rendered by another
person means no end Of convenience. It
is often, however, the sort Of service
that requires too much nerve to ask
ones friends TO 10, and yet one is IT all
loss as TO where 20 turn because it IS
work that doesn't belong strictly in the
province OF employment bureaus or
shopping agencies or detective headquar-
teFs In consequence the eFraud either
remains uud0ne or else the person at-
tends 10 it himself at cost Of time and
trouble. There is i woman III New
York who makes her living by doing
these very uundeseerlpI eFrands Tor all
sorts Of people from. almost All over
the country. Several years ago she
found herself absolutely dependent ON
her own exeTtionS. without training Or
capacity for any particular kind OF
work. when it was suggested to her that
she assume the role Of a friend IN need
70 the public 1T large. Since then her
experiences with people and her 0ppDr-
runities for insight inTo human nature
have been interesting, 10 say the leasI.
and her income while of course vary
IL. mas DEeQ comfortable.
Size has done practically everything
for people WHO needed help. from writ
jng al advertisement for cook vino
wanted situation 70 attending TO the
necessary business IN connection With
the pathetic case NJ 4 young woman vino
died IN a hospital ana whose remains
were sent to ller home in ii Ear western
State. Size took entire charge OF affairs
JUST 3s q friend would have done and
says that the grateful thanks chat she
received from the girls rnmllv repaid
the very substantial check.
Nor long 8go she spent two DAYS 1T
work. IN the reference department OF
big library. IN our-ot-toNvn naturalist
WHO uad spent some time IN New York.
found Oh going home chat he had lost
number IT scientific references ueCeSsarv
III the preparation 0f his lectures He
Wrote. explaining just what he wanted
ana size eopied pages from mustw books.
dld II satisfactorily. ana saved him
tT1p 70 New York
Through an advertisement n vest
ern paper size executed a number If
commissions for some people IN Il little
Town IN New Mexico. Her connection
there began with u queArlv constructed
tetter inclosIng a check and a request to
puY the writer Il rcv0lver-''tle BEST to
ne had in New York. The revolver
vas such a success th0t a week or 50
alter sine had a letter from the leading
physician OF the burg asking her to find
INN a wife. Size wrote linn that she
Wasn't running Il matrimonial bureau.
linen q ranch owner wrote thar lis wife
was going 70 Les Angeles for few
months and would ike 10 know of n
nice boarding place So tie woman In
View York maize arrangements for the
woman N New Mexico 70 board with a
woman N California. Satisfactory ar
r3ugemenfs. too.
Last winter She had letter from n
woman IN suburban town giving htr 4
bfnekiEn address, and asking her 20 ina
oHJ IL there was really such SIN address
and ia ascertain the name 0f rilp raanlf.
VINO ilved there. \ check was inclused
mat covered tile vaiue Of her time ami
caifarc good many times She Jour
leyert 70 BROOKLYN tound tlnt there WIS
SUCH place. gave the correct infnr1na-
lon 70 her correspondent and of course.
doesn't yet know why she was asked TO
do il.
For some months she wrote letters for
a man vino had iost the Use Of his hands
20 ms aged mother ND in New England
As z usual ching he said his wife ana
daughter attended to his a0r~esD0ndenea.
mn occasionally he liked 10 slip n n $40
oill and TO save complications he
Thought II Jest not "a ier them know
Once every four or five weeks. therefore.
ne would appear and have aer write
tetter At lis dictatiun. for which he paid
ler we'll
Size had rather a curious ease. the first
one ar It's kind, only q few weeks ago
Lie daughter of Il woman who was q
nurse n Il large chur.tuble institution
came aua Deggod her to ra6e ciInrGe Of
her mother who was On the verge of
nervous prostrarion. for Just 4 few days
Sine eo1Id not 3ttord % sauitarium. lnd
h0d uo o{iler absolutely quiet place TO 20.
! IaTe uever yer turned Down any one
whom I could possibly aeiu. said the
Woinan II telling about IT, and 80 to0k
nef n. She lad not beau aiie 10 slpe.D
ami seemed utterly exhausted. For near
~ Il week after SHE came To ne she slept
almost continuously. That was nh size
aetstetl. qner place ana comfortable
neti. 1nti n ry0 on three weeks sle was
all right again.
SIZE IS always coming ACROSS odd and
Interesting ana many pathetic eases~-
this professional friend IN neea-and her
services IRE invariably at the command
OF people who need assistance IN any
Nnd nj an aInergenpT.-N York Even
ing Maui