Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
TROUBLES OVER
. LADY SERVANTS
CLUB WHICH PROVIDES THEM
HAS ITS WOES
SIavies Would Be Called "Miss," as
They Consider Themselves Social
Equals of Mistresses-Want
Time for Beautifying
,peclal cable to rhe Herald.

Special Cable to Tho Herald.
LONDON, April 1.-THE members of
the Arachne club. an institution which
provides lady servants, are divided on
a point of etiquette of absorbing in
terest. Briefly, it is this:
Shall their employer. when he sees
himself in danger of losing his morn
up, JONES' or shall he say: please
hurry things up, Miss Jones" The
name Jones. of course, is taken at
random to illustrate the point
Until recently the members of the
sArachne club have been content to be
called by their surnames alone. But
there has arisen a section among them
who desire to be called Miss" They
are all ladies by birth, the daughters
of officers and so on, and when the
curate, who is in reality their social
equal. calls on their mistress it is pain
full to be addressed merely as Jones in
their presence.
On the other hand, some of them are
still quite content to be addressed in
this abrupt manner, and so the mat
ter at present rests. One departure,
however, of novel kind has been defi-
nitely decided on. Henceforth no lady
servant hailing from the Arachne club
will deign to take a situation unless
there is a charwoman or some other
servant to do the toughest work.
Where They Draw the Line
My lady Arachne does not object tG
cooking the dinner or even washing
dishes, but she draws the line at polish
ing her masters boots or securing the
doorstep under the eyes of neighbors.
In other respects, too. the lady serv-
ant is developing, and under the new
system she ought soon to be thing
of beauty and a joy forever. The
search for the ideal, however, has only
been along the pathway of discomfort.
When ladies first took to being cooks
and housemaids they did not quite
realize all the hardships that regular
Service" meant For instance, they
did not quite appreciate that pattering
over the preparation of dinners would
give them what is called "the house.
hold stoop;" that washing would de-
stroy the beauty of their hands; that
experimenting the cooking would ruin
their compilations, and that their hair
would be threatened with destruction
from dust when sweeping.
But the lady servant is person of a
strong individuality and no inconsider-
ale amount of mental culture and in
genuity. So by degrees there have been
devised means whereby a lady can un-
dertake all the drudgery of the house
hold and yet remain beautiful.
They have, for example. been rec
commended to brush their hair for ten
minutes each night before retiring to
rest, and then Immediately wash the
brush. To save their compilations, oil
of a1monds-boiled, from recipe, in
one of the household saucepans-is
nightly applied, and no lady servant
would dream of seeking her couch
without having previously gone through
gymnastics specially prescribed for
combating the "household stoop."
Their hands receive attention every
evening, both by means of manicure
and rubbing in cream. They always
sleep in gloves Face massage is also
indulged in to keep under the wrinkles
induced by screwing up the face over
a steaming frying-pan.. What is known
among them as the "chop frown" or the
grill grimace" has been alarmingly
on the increase of late.
All this of course, takes time. In
fact, the lady servant occupies about an
hour over her toilet every night. The
following schedule gives us fairly ac-
curate idea of her proceedings:
Deep breathing Ito free the lungs
OF uuSI) .......,,........... InlnS.
Hair brushing and hairbrush
W2Sh1nS ......................,.... IL
. Manicure ............................
Face massage NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10
Physical culture for the "house-
hold Stoop" OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10 "
Reading Plato (Dr. Reich's edi-