The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-05-27


In business / think it is good ides
for her to get advice from the mos
successful business men she knows
OF course, it isn't necessar yto follow
their advice. never do But Il
does me good to listen while they
talk, and to turn things over in my
own mind. After they have finished
talking / am more convinced thar
ever that my own idea was the night
one.
"A woman always knows what tc
do under any circumstances if she
will listen to that little voice inside
Men mean well, the poor dears, but
II / had taken their advice when
launching any one of my enterprises
never would have amounted TO any.
thing. l don't know why it's so. but
know it is so, that if you put WON
ans intuition on one side and man
experience on the other, you will find
that feminine instinct is the safer
guide in any emergency"
That sermonette came from Nine.
Caroline Genet in an interview Sc
cured by Sarah Macdougal for the
New York World Magazine
Twenty-Five years ago Nine. Genet
widow with two small sons to sup.
port, landed in New York from Eng
land with shilling in her pocket
The other day she bought the Claren.
don, a ten.story apartment hotel on
the northwest corner of Park avenue
and 5Sth street, paying 100000 for
the property. In the meantime she
had managed one clearinghouse
after another, and she managed them
in her own way, the magazine article
says, and that those who served her
and those whom she served seemed
to like that way, because whenever
Madame" sold business at one
stand and moved further uptown, the
servants and the tenants tagged
along with the landlady.
Nine. Genet is now sixty-four years
old, the article continues, but If her
cooks were unable to work today she
would slip into white linen smock,
30 down to her kitchen and do the
cooking herself. For years she has
directed other people, but she knows
how to do the work Of any of her EN-.
ployes, from the white.capped French
man who stirs salad dressing to the
decorator who hangs blue velvet
curtains against the windows that
front On Park avenue. If cleaning
woman was making sloppy job Of
washing mosaic floor, Madame
could get down on her knees and
show her how it ought to be done
and she would give that practical les
son with so much kindness that the
servant would love her all the more
for II.
Il do not believe in exacting tor
much from my help" she said. 81
they give me little bad temper alont
with their best work-well, I accep
both. L believe in leaving workers
alone as much as possible. If 20,
nag them you can't expect them to b,
faithful And / will say that my EN-
ployes have been very faithful The,
stay with me ten or dozen or TWEEN
ty years. There's old Thomas, for In
stance, He is eighty-five, and he ha
been with me over twenty years. Il
his day he was one Of the finest wal,
ers In London. Now La stands a
doorman az my back door, and tr
to keep him thinking it is quite a
importan post. 1t would hurt tina
old man to realize that his day @
usefulness is past"
Architects, the World Magazine d.
clares, have been the only obstacle
for Nine. Genet ON her way to success
as a clearinghouse keeper. If sh
had her way there would be a la
making 1t criminal offense to pc
NIT man to build a kitchen. In e
cry house she has managed she ha
had to reconstruct the basemen
tearing down partitions, moving pa
tries, shifting staircases, maxim
room for refrigerators, ranges, table