Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
Indian school, Young Mems Christian esso-
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JOY FOR THE HOUsEKEEPER
system of CO-Operntive DiahvRshinE
aud Maid service Put
Into Effect.

In a single block in. uptown New York
are six large apartment houses which are
the abode of care free women. The six
houses have $50 tenants, $50 households
where the spectre Of the servant problem
never stalks In some Of the 20 households
there are servants and in some there are
not. II doesn't make any difference. They
are all happy This is probably the one
and only place in civilized America where
a woman means what she says when she
remarks that she won't take any back talk
from her maid
/ why should she when she can step to
/ her telephone, call up the basement and
tell the nice young man down there that
the dinner dishes are ready to be washed
and that she'd like to have Gwendolen
come and hook her up the back?
! why worryT' Is the motto OF every
woman who lives in the block presided over
/ by the Dishwashing and Service company,
certainly the most genial and accommodate
/ ing corporation ever launched.
/ For a round sum Of 50 a week this fairy
prince among corporations will provide the
/ following service;
! Maid to make the bed every morning and
/ for small services when needed.
! Dishes silver, pots and paus washed three
times day.
!
Kitchen floor scrubbed once a week.
! Kitchen stove polished once a week.
! Windows washed once a week.
| Silver polished once a week.
} Apartment vacuum cleaned once a week.
! Parquet floors waXed and polished once
a month
If a housekeeper doesn't want to take the
! whole service she still depends Upon the
company to any extent she pleases. One
women who seems equal to all lifes prob
lens except exploring the length Of her own
| spine has the maid to hook OF button her
frocks at 10 cents q frock. Any woman
/ who isn't a trained contortionist will admit
that its cheap at the price.
| You don't even need to do dish washing
| by the week. If you have company or
don't feel quite up to the mark or are
merely overcome with general loathins
of dirty dishes the company will wash
them for you for a meal or a day or as
long as you want them to- For three
meals a day for a family Of two or three
It will cost 20 cents a day; for four or five,
Is cents day; for six or seven, 80 cents
a day. Larger families are not quoted
being too rare to command attention.
And IL you are on the companys books
as a family Of two and you have reckless
attack Of hospitality and invite a dozen
!
you nobly. 1t seems to want its patrons
to have a good time, for it doesn't charge
extra for washing the party dishes.
And II you have a little late supper-onf
Of those joyous occasions which everybody
loves except the wife, who has either tC
wash the dishes herself or to face the
disappearing countenapce Of the maid II
the morning-you can, give yourself up tC
hilarity without q qualm. The company
will see you through. Put the dishes OF
the dumbwaiter and go to he'd in peace
Bright and early IN the fporning they viii
be sent back, shining like the dawn.
II anything is broken or damaged pu
It up to the company, ttspays for. break
ages, But. there are net many to pay fer
Each dishwasher receiyeea a. bonus of 81 {
week IL he doesn't break anything. II h
does It comes out of his bonus The desir,
to receive that 81 intact is a wonderful in
spiration to a dishwasher's soul.
OF course IL you want to have a mai,
you can have the dishes washed there
but you will have to pay 30 cents an hour
and they won't be as well done anyway
The company prefers to send you up
couple of stout boxes, one for the chin'
and silver the other for pots and pans
You put the things In these boxes ant
send them down on the 6umbwaiter
In the basement there is regular dish
washing machinery with men in charge
Each households dishes are washed sepa
rately and the company guarantees tina
the service Is absolutely sanitary. Tn
old-fashioned dishpan method seems posi-
lively untdy in comparison. However
you will be obliged to continue It 80 far a
glassware is concerned, for that Is the on
thing the company draws the line at. ]
doesn't wash glassware, at least not b
machinery You can have a maid com
up and do 1t under your own direction
But glass ia too sensitive to hot and col
water to be tempered with under a guar
antee to pay for breakage.
That's about the only thing the com
pany balks at doing. It even invites tn
tenants to suggest ways in which Il ma
be useful to them and profitable to Itself
No matter what the service is the EN-
ployes will tackle. II at 10 cents an hou
for the men and 30 cents for. the maids
Up to date they have performed all tn
listed services and in addition have packe
books, hung pictures, run errands, val
n!shed floors, buttohed up backs, waite
on table and helped out in a hundred dc
nestle crises.-New York Sun