Show tho lady factotum the lady factotum ia what our english neighbors call those engaged in th e vocation af pf visiting housekeeper thin is an employment which ha been highly recommended nd which a number of ladies in thia country as well as in england have adopted such a person visits ladies who from ill health or come other reason are enable to perform their domestic duties she the servants inspects the and possibly undertakes shopping marketing and the writing of notes and aha performs other offices which are of too confidential and responsible a nature for the ordinary ervant to undertake if she is a woman of energy tact and health ehe can accomplish a great deal by visiting a number of families for about an hour a day she may go BO far aa to employ assistants assi stanta in marketing and shopping whose la able to oversee with intelligence she ia paid bof this aoa on even a better seal than a visiting governess and it she is an able efficient woman in the items of inspecting spec ting stores and furnishing food at down town prices she can easily save s family half her liberal remuneration the institution of such a vocation ia a greaff relief to many overburdened or ill or housewives and presents and lucrative field to bomea of efficiency and refinement it i a place such as an elder eister might take an d such indeed as many elder and unmarried bisters do take for no love and affection new york tribune |