Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-06-05
LACKING IN SYSTEM
COMMON Fault AMONG WOMEN
SAYS A BUSINESS MAN.
One Reason for fIse servant Problem.
II Is snegeefed~-IfOfei Managers
Depcndenf on afen 70 Organize
Their Households.


schools,
"gystem.0 she reDeafe1, DHzzie1.
"Yes, system" bef father persist
"a, II don't believe. tb1uzD. that
system can BE- taught" he eos
flBged fe1ecflgelg, rs Ike cOfas
mon sense, 81 q seHse ~ bbmoT one
must BE- born viii ~"
what on earth are S0B asiVing
6tg" asked his wife,
I'm driving ~ mis- ! have come
70 The conclusion inst he SsN York
woman ~ about he least systematic
IN me World I ara not referring -
business women ~ much ~ - WOHs~
en- III The home, women VITO are not
Obliged ~ earn fIoif firing"
And meB1" asked the wife,
well, hare met men nh0 SDyaF.
emily had mighty iltfle system about
anything, bit - general thing
men far OBtfank women ~ fhis re-
sDsct
what started ne g0inE On the
ssDJect7 Why, this Jones told ns
TO-DAY that be had discharged BIS
hogsskesDer and pot q man - her
place, and that the only reason tie
assistant bOngekeepeF Was kept va
beeause women guests and the maids
needed wOman'g help occasionally.
A Dig force Of chambermaids are re-
quireg In his hotel, 70 say nothing o.
dozens Of other employs Who for
merry came under the supervision Of
the housekeeper. Now he has q Yaan
70 90 that wOrk--doeg Il better,
Jones says"
What was the trouble Wifb ths
housekeeDerz" asked the wife.
Lack OF system. Jones sid.
Then he pointed out a phenomenon
/ had never noticed. lie said that
when q woman undertook 20 run
hotel II generally degenerated into
boarding house, and that when
man took hold Of a boarding house,
which isn't often, II generally grew
into hotel, and all becauge Of
question Of system
"a woman who has been trained
In a business concern, who began,
say, as errand girl, Office attendant,
or stock girl and works her way uD
to responsible place, often learns O
good deal about system. Under such
circumstances think system can Be
acquired IN an institution Of learn
ing. / am also sure that, take some
business women out OF their environ
ment and set them mp IN an indie
pendent venture, they will drop al
most Immediately into what I call Z
sysfemIegs system. To illustrate:
"a relative OF mine left school a.
fifteen to work IN a large mannfact-
uring concern, IN which she rose 10 a
place second only 10 that Of the own
ers before she was thirty. / myself
wondered at her success.
when she was thirty-two years
old she married a prosperous busi-
ness man, widower, with two chill
dren and a good sized house, who can
afford to keep several servants. He
made no secret of the fact that he
selected HIS wife because OF her tall
ent Of managing for her systematic
arrangement Of her duties and busi-
ness engagements.
"They have been married two
years, and a worse managed house
hold from my point of view it has
never been my luck to see / have
never known a meal to be served In
that house on schedule time in spite
OF the fact that they live far enough
out Of the city to make it necessary
for the man to travel In and out b.
train; the children are quarrelsome,
unruly, unpunctual and so usually
my wife tells me, are the three SER
wants. Their mistress has lost her
alert, confident, business air and
looks as If she had tackled job too
hard, for her. which is, indeed, ex-
actIy the case.
I'm other words, she has no sys-
tenn By which that household may be
reduced to a smoothly running, har-
monious basis. She could manage
with ease a hundred or more en-
pIoyes in a concern of which she was
not the head, but where she is abso-
lutte boss three servants are beyond
her.
But in justice to women | think
this ought to be said: The system
which is possible in hotel Is not. in
my opinion, possible in a private
house, and doubt II the general run
OF man would do any better than the
general run Of woman in managing
an ordinary household"
The manager Of the same hotel
spoke differently. Said he:
System is system, whether in q
small or a large house, and no one
| appreciates this better than women
| servants. who themselves are quite
incapable OF originating anything ap-
I preaching system. A system must be
| laid down for them and they must be
taught how to follow it, If satisfac-
tory results are looked for. A SIS
temless mistress IS bound TO have a
gygtemless ssTyant; and that even
| the most charming and accomplished
| OF mistresses are often almost with
out any system at all IN their house
keeping no one, think, will deny.
Put a tiny cork into the end OF