Show MAIDS OF GREAT LADIES I Interesting Stories or the Tireless Women Who Serve Mrs Astor Mrs Rockefeller and Mrs Cruger A typically well maided woman Is Mrs John D Rockefeller who no matter mat-ter how simple her costume may be said an admiring person and capable critic bears the impress of an artist hand upon her from the crown of her sleek head to the tips of her irreproachable irreproach-able carriage shoes Such maid carIage a is worth her weight In wages and could get 1 whenever she chose to leave her present pres-ent employer The nearest rival of Mrs Rockefellers Roclcefelers maid Is Mrs Crugers femme de cham brc Shes a famous French woman a particularly capable hair dresser and her chief recommendation to her lady is the quality most highly esteemed In the smart maid of understanding her mis tress moods These intelllgnet servants quickly learn to study their employers nerves and temper They know when to soothe with sympathy when to cheer with a bit of flattery o placate with a little welltimed gossip But dont for a moment think the la die maids lives are spent only in pretty trifling over the mistress toilet and accepting ac-cepting scoldings or careless confidence Of the latter they do receive a good deal but any one who ha visited In smart houses can see that the more wealthy and fashionable the woman they serve the harder and more trying their work For example Mrs Frederick Van derbilts maid in town o in Newport during the season must make and unmake un-make complete toilets for her mistress I as often as live times a day No less than sixty gowns are constantly to be kept in appleple order five or six hours of sleep out of the twentyfour Is about all the maid catches and she is held accountable countable for every valuable in he charge ever Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt on the contrary con-trary gives he maid very little trouble She practically makes her own toilets and the attenXant Is never allowed in the room till she is ready to have her gown hooked in place The mother of the Duchess of Marlborough unlike her sls tersinlaw keeps two maids and both of them Irish girls that she had specially speci-ally trained for her use and Mrs Phoebe Hearst characteristically has chosen for languages her maid a Swedish > girl who speaks five But who fs a heroine to her femme de chambre An astonishingly large number num-ber of mistresses if one can judge by the devotion and fidelity of many of these servants Mr Brummels Mortimer Morti-mer was never a stauncher friend < than is the maid of a famously rich New York woman who is known among her feminine friends regularly to overstep her allowance Its her maid who keeps the hungry dressmakers and milliners at bay supplies loans out of her own savings and utilizes the pawn shops in her employers behalf If the maids enjoy en-joy confidences not many of them tattle it abroad though there is occasionally the attendant who keeps her place only because she holds her tongue and there is yet repeated the famous case of the I mistress and maid who bargained beforehand I before-hand that the servant for a consideration considera-tion would put up with the madams well known temper For years the maid patiently pa-tiently dodged flying missiles when at her labors before the mirror and swallowed swal-lowed scoldings as best she might for when the will was read she came in for a legacy big enough to heal every wound Now Mrs William Astor the most considerate and gracious lady in the world is a genuine heroine with her servants ser-vants Only sudden death or equally implacable im-placable matrimony has ever robbed her of her maids No tiring woman ever waited up for her after 1 oclock nor suffered rebukes for any passing whim and they ten a pretty story of a country coun-try house ladys maid a poor overworked over-worked thing who was detailed to aid this distinguished guest In dressing for dinner Awaiting the ladys arrival in the bedroom sheer exhaustion overcame watchfulness and down among the divan di-van pillows the girl fell asleep A glance at the pale face was enough for tho kindly lady who quietly made herself ready turned the gas low left a consoling con-soling tip in the sleepers hand went softly out of the room and it was only by way of the servants hall that the incident in-cident ever came to light MILLICENT ARROWPOINT I |