Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-26
Club Members Stirred by Great Task
Of Giving Satisfaction to Hired Girl
RY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

Andrew Jackson once ssid In
~ speech when raising funds
IA for crippled chorus girls. Pub
4 a lie servants may get criticised.
hut OH hoy. lts nothing to
what private servants get. when
bunch Of women are on that subject,
And how true that is come over me
last week AT our Ladies' Thursday
Club. whom the Mime. President was
10 read a paper On What SHAH We
DO to Make Our Servants Happier"
After this reading. there was to he
discussion. ace. hut the ladies didn't
wait for the proper time. they COM
menced the minute they arrived. hy
which It was easy to see that the sub
feet Of the day was conner he
popular one.
Well saws Mrs. GoOfnah. opening
up the barrage In a whisper to ! and
Mabel Bush. you know. the one that
IL married to that Joe Bush Of the
Hawthorne Club. tell you girls
says Mrs. Goofnah. I never have any
trouble with my servants. have had
the same cook for 10 years now. She
night out. she never goes any place
never asks for A rAfse Of wages. or
anything. Why. she don't even have
heauX. my kitchen 10 as free from
policemen az the street In front on
the night OF D burglary: what is no"~
she neVse wastes thing and no
kitchen - as clean and tidy as any
body could wish. YES indeed. there
are not MANY other women in this
town | dare say. who have kept a cook
FOR 10 yearS like have done.
Well naturally this got and Mabel
all excited and we Immediately Sung
Inc hD, do
yoT do il. dnarie?" ! don't do It. aavs
Mrs. Goofnah. she does II herself In
fact. Won SOC the fist week she WAS
with mo she became hedriddon and
ehe has heon that way ever since.
Still. Nnn got to admit that Keeping
cook 10 annums is quite . triumph
No matter how it is done and nohod,-
can't say her kitchen isn't clean
take cave Of that. myself.
Well. SAYS Mabel. "nu are lucky Al
that. now tho on we've got. honest
] can't get rid Of hcr. I'm afraid to
tell her To 60. and docs she make me
feel cheap? and how will he plan.
ming on corned leof and cahha e
for dinner when he will say sun
pose we have nice pair Of roast
ducklings. caviar. peach melha and
fresh asparagus?
And. my dear the tone she SAYS Il
in has me licked hAfore start !
want tn say eos. suppose we do. who
do you suppose is conner pay FOR it,
But | never have the nerve. she
makcs me fol like was hetra"ing
my social posltio by refusing and
know that - merely hetra ting the
tradespeople nv consuming. only
hope that when | so 10 Jail fo"
debt she will bail mo ont with some
~ the enormous wages I am paving
her
HOT Rozo. | says swell chance
there is Of her doing anything
like that. these hieh.hat serve n's
make persons home pretty near as
uncomforta BILE as visiting at q real
swells, and as for gratitude. I never
seen a servant vet with any graft.
tllde. I remember one my mother
used tn have her name was Minnie
and mother did just everything for
Minnie. she paid her five dollars a
week. pretty regular. too. she was
hardly ever more than six weeks he
hind.
She let Minnie take n hath in the
kitchen tubs when not needed ! don't
mean the hath wasn't needed. | mean
thA tubs. we'll anyways. mother gave
her second ha nd he'd to sleep in
and anything that was left over from
the meals II there was anything left
over. and one Christmas she gave
her a gilded coat hanger hand paint ed
with forget me note
Yes. mother certainly was good to
Minnie. But did Minnie appreciate
Il? Certainly not. The ice man asked
her To marry him. and Minnie ac-
tuslly jumped at il. as she herself put
II. ont NJ the frying pan into the ice
chest. or something like that. Any
WAYS she didn't hesitate 10 leave