Show rI r- r I j Women Who Have Succeeded I 1 t I MISS MARY MDONALD HP r-r HE lIE career of ot Mary McDonald manI man- man THE J I ager er of or a huge huse restaurant shows that the tho woman who vho Is bound to climb to tho top of ot the tho ladder of RU ml might ht as well get her start b by popI prop pop I ping that ladder a against the kitchen i cabinet as ns alongside the college ob ob- ob- ob Other little girls at Mary M McDonalds McDonald's ago drag dragged ed their mothers mother's skirts around tho the parlor and dreamed of court trains and marble halls Mary McDonald preferring to watch t the tho soup simmering on tho the kitchen stove had Ideas stirring In her hor own head and decided that tho the only castlo castle In Spain aho ho cared about was wag a huge res rca t It Is not ones one's dreams that come como true But then thon most of us are aro ordinary people who get got nervous prostration prostration pros pros- from the tho care of ot two to servants ants and a household of fh five The Tho vor very Idea or of fee feeding ing persons persona a day clay would send us to an asylum lum As Aa for buying tho the kitchen utensils as well as ns tho tim food superintending tho the table service supervising tho tim laundr laundry of tho the linen also the maids' maids uniforms and a aa no a aside aside sl side e line lino managing to devise clover olo I decorations for tho the menus or alluring schemes for afternoon teas teas already tho the gentle genUo reader is calling for smelling smell smell- In ing salts 8 HER IIER TRAINING I G. G Miss McDonald was fortunate to re- re her early training AS us an assistant assist assist- ant to Miss McNally Campus for tor her management gement of the lunch and tea toa room at Wanamaker's Wanamakers Philadelphia store lItora Then for tor two and a n. IJ halt hair Ir years she went on tho the road an su traveling tra sales agent for tor a flour company I i sold Sod lo their flour by tho the carloads she says s with pardonable pride Towns Tons that ha had never he it before m my advent put It on sale at ever every available place Miss McDonald McDonal is hurried d or flurried She has plenty plent of ot time to show tho the visitor her airy aln kitchen where the sun glints glint on her shining shining- T copper saucepans Or she will Ill take you ou to tho the basement to look took at her originally planned lunch counter and then up again aln to tho the top floor to watch the workings of ot tho the employees employees' lunch lunchroom lunchroom lunchroom room run on tho the cafe system When the restaurant was started the tho firm sent Bont Miss McDonald abroad to get et what hat hints sho he could from European systems of management manas Once was enough said Miss Mc Mc- Donald I can sit at my desk In tho the corner an and got cot all tho the Ideas needed out of my own on head hand It Is not COPIng copyIng copyIng copy copy- Ing that makes a n success of a plan It Is In devising methods that moot meet your peculiar needs HEIt I IDEAS ADOPTED What hat the tho firm thinks of or the l Ideas that simmer In her head ia Is shown b by their adoption of ot the decoration scheme that was her choice for tor tho the restaurant Thoy They wished to have havo gray woodwork and tiled flooring Oh 01 no protested Mi Miss McDonald Have Havo simple substantial mahogany like lIko that found in private ato houses Put co Tugs rugs on the time floor It would prove far moro more alluring e me and me-and and only cost moreA more more- A mere mero bar bagatelle chorused the firm Wo We 0 thought It really realty would cost something And they ordered ma ma- hogan These mav may not bo the exact words but hut otherwise tho incident ont is ra fact Ct Miss McDonald attributes her hor success sue suc cess COSS to her efforts to have tho restaurant restaurant res res- homelike In Its fittings as aswell aswell aswelt well welt ne na In the rood food served Tho The mainspring mainspring main maln- spring of ot her success Is to entice tho the customer Into falling into a comfortable chair like Uke tho the ono one In his dining room anu and amid O him food so much like mother used to mako that ho keeps on ordering quite forgetful that he is not in his 0 own 11 home and that each cach order ha has a a. price tag Alas tho the bill reminds him too soon And Anti ho contributes his mite to repayIng repay repay- ing lag the firm for or that extra invested In Invested in- in vested In mahogany mahogany and and the Ideas In-I In In Miss McDonalds McDonald's head |