The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
For the Girl Who Wants to Earn
Possibilities of the Social Season

7 WONDER If tn girl who wants to
make money has ever thought of
- using the social and club season as
a means of making extra money! Just
now, in big cities or in smaller, you
hear much of card clubs literary clubs,
dancing parties. afternoon teas-the
wh.rl of the season is well begun. Let
us study its possibilities where the girl
with viii is concerned.
Every social and every club enter
tainment must have its touch of hos
pitaIity in the way of refreshments.
Every hostess and every committee
reach the point where they would be
glad TO have certain details taken off
their minds and hands. Think of the
opportunity this gives you, in no matter
what line your talent lies.
How to Go About 1t.
Suppose you live in a big, oid-fash-
toned house, the kind with center hall
and long double parlOrs, or with one
big parlor; why do you not go right
into the entertainment business? Rent
your parlors to hostesses and clubs.
Clear the rooms of sUperfluOus furnl-
ture and tint the walls a soft neutral
tint. against which pretty gowns will
be in color harmony. You can tint the
walls yourself to save expense, but re
member that certain strong cOlOrs VIII
spoil the effect of certain other cOlors.
You will want TO change the colors or
your floral decorations to suit seasons
and occasions, and that is another rea-
son why you must not have bright
background
Buy or rent folding card-tables and
chairs. If ingenious. you can manu-
facture card-tables yourself with board
Cover the tops with muslin or felt. In
vest part of your capital in pretty,
inexpensive china Of your own china
closet viii not supply enough, and 90
not forget the sherbet glasses. These
are always in demand. and you can
doubtless rent them many times over.
You can get very pretty plated forks
and spoons IN artistic patterns.
Little by little you can add the
napery, embroidering it with your mono
gram or your favOrite flower, or if you
give your parlOrs a name, with the mi
tial of that. Special parlors, equipped
with the tables, chairs and service for
entertaining. have become a need where
space is scarce. and are welcomed by
the hostess to whom entertaining means
a deal Of work, worry and a complete
readjustment of the domestic machinery.
Renting Rooms.
Large parlors with little furniture are
a pretty good asset for any girl to have.
There are many times when she can
rent them-to the kindergarten teacher
for rehearsals. for readings, Tecitals and
demonstrations of women lecturers.
Mothers would rather have their sons
and daughters attend dances given in
the parlOr Of a house than in a public
hall, Big stOreroOms and attics may be
rented for the storage of furniture. I
know one young woman who conducts
a storage house hiring the teams and
taking care of a big business. As book
keeper in a stol age house, she was given
much more than her share of work by
the lazy manager
She did not complain, but spent her
time learning the work and making
friends Of the teamsters and patrons
and saving her money. The next thing
she did was to establish her own bust
ness, and she is succeeding we'll. One
girl. owning a fine, rOOmy brick barn,
lined its walls with felt for winter, put
IN big stove, cleaned and decorated
IL, called it The Barn and rented IT
very successfully for social affairs and
entertainments. In the summer she
rented il to an artist and his wife. Two
other girls Of my acquaintance rent
their old barn 10 neIgnbOrS Tor storing
their autos. Big houses and big barns
can be turned to account in many ways.
Decorating.
But there are many more lines of
work for you if you decide to try the
entertainment bureau. There are the
decorations. You can plan these and
make the artificial ones, including the
candle and lamp shades. You can
gradually accumulate palms, ferns and
rubber plants and baskets of trailing
vines. which you can rent to others, just
as the florist does. To keep the good
viii of the florist if there is one, you
can tell him frankly your plans and ask
him to allow you to work with him, he
furnishing the plants and flowers and
you arranging them. Study artistic and
suitable decorations, and discuss them
with your patron, but always keep back
some little detail as a surprise. If there
is a guest of honor, decorations in the
latters favorite color are q delicate COM
pliment.
will not go into detail about all the