The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-01
MEDALS FOR FAITHFUL MAIDS
HAUSFRAUEN SHOW OFF THEIR
BACKSTAIRS WONDERS.

8t8yOs ~ ~ @SS ~ WV AO%h -
More Get Gold Bees and Cakes and
Ices n Have Their Pictures Taken.
Tn be your cook for forty per-"
wen pay you that plus ten
And Thursdays outf"
yea
sundays, tooi-
We granted that and then
She walked right in and turneo around and walked
BseEssstrs Ballads.
A society for the suppression Of the num-
Der rs. composed OF 2oi at peace with the
world matrons whose servants ave stayed
with them for two years or more, m which
n known as the German Housewives Soci-
ETY., assembled In Tuxedo Hall, at Madison
avenue and Fifty-ninth street. yesterday
afternoon 10 see their backstalrs wonders
have gold badges pinned On them and ID
feed them Ice cream, coffee and cakes
Thsre were thirty-six maids on h list tc
recsive the long service badges yesterday
but three didn't come because their mis-
trssses were afraid the girls would get
their feet wet.
Al cooperative society for the disoour-
Agemesst OF cutters he German House
wives Society seems TO have Helicon Home
Of Englewood, N. j.. soldered to the third
ran. There was Rosa Hahn, who has been
tho oook for Mrs. NJ. Weinberg OF rs West
Seventy-sixth street for more than ten
years. Rosa got her gold badge in the form
OF q bee. ate the luncheon provided, faced
tho dashlight brigade and went back to the
Weinberg home OF her OWE free will. Also
there was Lily Freund, superintendent of
the culinary department belonging TO DR.,
willy Meyer, the specialist, OF TOO Madison
avenue, and she went baok quietly to the
Meyer home after she had received her
badge to begin her ninth year Of honorable
servioe.
Emma RAINING, who has remained in
the employ Of DR.. Helen Lowenstein for
-four and a half years, ever though the doc
tor does live in Morristown, N. j., came
over to Manhattan to get her badge but
didn't 20 back. Emma announced a few
days ago that she Ii going to be married.
DR.. Lowenstetn In unable to leave her room
and so was not present.
The thirty-three mistresses who decided
to unlock the doors yesterday and accom-
pany their maids to the hall were a bit late
in arriving. Cabs had to be telephoned for,
canopies stretched from street doors to
the cabs and carpets laid across the wet
sidewalks. All this took time. Besides
q few OF the matrons couldn't find their
cooks goloshes right of the reel and there
were also delays In some houses caused
by some indecision on the part OF the mis-
tresses as to whether It would be wise to
permit the servants to go out in such
weather.
But when the thirty-three had arrived
and each matron had found a white and
gold wicker chair for her particular maid.
the matrons stood with Arm grips on the
coat collars of their prizes while the vice.
president, Mrs. Won Briesen OF / East Forty
seventh street. mounted the dais, gold
bees In hand. Along the sidelines was
about sixty feet Of table filed with fancy
cakes n flowers.
The services were simple, so that no cook
would be at all fatigued. Mrs. Won Briesen
had a list OF the time servers. and as she
reached each name the girl walked proudly
20 the dais and got her gold bee and a few
was, For heavens a X stioki Marriage is
q failure. A rolling stone gathers no pretty
moss. Look before you leap. Nothing
succeeds like a bird in the hand"
When all had received their medals the
camera squad advanced in company forma-
ton, but there was a long halt before per-
mission could be got to line the girls up
and fash them.
Lena is a very nervous girl protested
the tall woman with glasses, and I'm
MI All bhc AonhA@hb PNNNNA "N6-S ~NNS
Minnie, my maid" insisted another
housewife, -tells me she got her feet wei
getting out of the auto and | really can't
have her standing around in that condition
She must have some hot coffee before
We've decided, ma'am,' interrupted
Minnie, -to have our pictures taken before
We set down to eat
The matrons fell back respectfully and
the picture was taken.
WI AZ a.. i'll. .Haol 1afnnn Nha opaora
in a long line each housewife ran to the
long table and secured a chair for her maid
Onefwoman near the end OF the table thought
che nearest cake dish was too far from
her maids plate. n at the psychological
moment moved it along a peg. When she
turned away from the table for a moment
q woman opposite moved this cake dish
and another over in front OF the plate re-
served by her. When the girls sat down
10 he coffee, cakes and ices, however,
the cake dishes had been moved again.
When the pictures had been taken and
the luncheon fin shed and employers had
stripped the table of flowers to pin them
on employees. then Rosa Hahn, the ten
years on the job GIRL consented to be
Never mind the questions-Im tell you
all you ought to know. " began Rosa. I'm
the cook. I'm the housekeeper too when
the family's way and I'm a good servant
don't interrupt me-I'm a good servant
] say. l say so myself and other people
say SO. We have three maids in the house
that have been there for over three years
and we own the house because we run it
right. No, ] oan't say I've aver had trouble
there-no, not exactly trout L.. said Rosa
pensively. There amt any children in the
family. and that's all you want to know. I
guess
Among the stayers was ANNA Meier, who
has remained away up in fremont with Mrs.
o. Schmidt Of 2029 Ryer avenue. Augusta
Roemer has been a cool for Mrs. Arnold
Of EOS East Sixty-frst street for eight years.
Minnie Gerke has been with Mrs. A. b.
Frank Of 4s East Eightieth street for four
years and Alice H. Cowley, the beauty OF
the group, has been a maid in the family Of
i. Beinecke, up the Hudson, for six years.
-by-the-fre a y there are chill
dren In the house. but that they arealmost
always away
All the girls present yesterday have kept
their Jobs for more two years and
intimSsed that they intend to hold them.
They we're bundled away with much care
after the festivities.