The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24

private families have % shut up their
h01sss and 90 % . hotel or travel Tor tho
lack Of than. This proves conclusively
20 my mind that In ninety -nins out Of eVery
hundred caaes when thls occurs Il is the
fault Of the housskesper and NOS OF the
ssrvants- I am not saying this % do
paraGS the women who can AFFORD %
employ servants. All the same. they
don't know how 20 manage servants or
how to plan their honaekeeping 30 an to
keep servants. That's all thOTo IL 10 IT,
This n the reason why hotel 20 bo sue
woman's hotel.
mo. In q hotel it'a not a cAss Of petting
or % a fine sitting room where she may
receive her callers, or OF a bedroom %
herself. fixed up with art decorations.
Between ourselves I don't believe the
much Tor art furnishings and = beautiful
sitting room as some ladies' imagine.
AZ any rate IN hotels very few have even
a private bedroom. Moat % them have
90 double up OF sleep In a dormitory.
They ars not allowed 20 euteEtaim their
friends at all at the hotel. THIS rule Ia
absolute.
There are two things which make
zap for thie-no nAgginG and q certain
number OF hours to themselves In q week.
In hotel a servant has only one boss.
No one else can give her orders she 10
hound TO obey. A chAmbermaid now
employed here left a firMt clans private
family. she told me. becauss even the
eight year-old child was.allowed 20 issue
orders which tho chambermaid must obey.
mothers orders given half an hour earlier.
In hotel only one person issues orders
tn the servants Of each departments and
not even the head mana ger may interfere
with these orders. A servant from one
department " not asked 90 make good
la -. A
hotel servants hours are not particularly
short, hut they are limited TO fixed
ysNriod with q beginning and an end. and
ih,y leave her usually about three or four
evenings a week. from TO q O'Clock. that
10. to ~ clock. when every woman
servant IN expected TO show up at the
hotel. This gives each q chance tn So
a play through supposinS abe snes 10 the
theatre.
Vegetable and under cooks. who begin
work At q O'Clock IN the morning and get
about the same pay an average cook
gets In a small private family with no
tips thrown in hold their jobs often
several years without fights or fuases
of any sort because they take orders
from only the one boss and their hours
OF In the afternoon and evening are
never invaded on any pretext.
In other words Il ~ q QUESTION Of svs-
TEN largely which makes hotels popular
with women servants.
In the opinion Il Another long time
manager the chance AZ tipa and the
syptemAtizinR % their work are the kew
notes 90 the greater contentment ~ hotel
servants.
I'm private families said he. where
ihe relations between the mistress and the
servant are more intimate and lesS buai-
neeslike than the relation IN; ween hotel
manager and servant. servants usually
kick az . lot 81 extra company. whereas
Ia = hotel the more guests that arrive
the hotter some part 81 the help IL pleased
hecPuse ~ the prospect Of extra tiu~
This in a. IL should he II a servant has
10 work longer and harder than usual
he or she 10 bound Ia ge, sour unless
paid extra for IL This ISN'T unreasonable
either
For this reason I take pains when
dine ne "A private house TO give the waiter
or Waitress a good tip. certain that the
mistress won't think of IL. This IL where
private families often are big losers in the
end
-ies. a hotel chAmbermAid STAYING
in one place a long time has q chance
20 save up quite = hit Of money even II
she IL paid only go NJ Si2 a month. II
had proof 10 this on one occasion when
hecause 81 CERTAIN thefts in the hotel
Il wRs necessary to have every servants
trunk examined. In one belonging 20
an old Irish chambermAid IN olFr employ
ten wears | found several rolls ~ coin
tucked away in the corners nickels
dimes and quarters. each BY itself Re
SIDES this there wer" three bank b,oks
wonder how much cash you have
tucked away In the hanks. DeliAy' said
sure Id he ashamed to tell you. air.
how much ] have. Was her unexpected
answer.-