Show BOYS BUTTON DRESS Custom Inaugurated When One Husband Injured His Hand Messengers Called Upon Frequently in London Because Gowns Are So Expensive Many Women Cannot Can-not Afford to Keep Maids LondonTo many strange nnd unusual un-usual tasks havo the boys of tho district dis-trict messenger service been put They will carry your messages guide you across London look after school boys and girls crossing town on their way to or from school or go round the world for youand all In answer to a simple telephone call They nro ubiquitous capable ready for anything Hut their latest achievement and surely the most unusual is to act as ladles maids The other afternoon an excited man rushed Into a district messenger office Can you send a boy at onto to lace up a ladys dress ho asked apparently appar-ently in despair and obviously expecting ex-pecting to be met with a scornful refusal re-fusal Certainly sir was tho calm answer an-swer What address Tho address was duly given and the harassed man walked off mopping his brow I told tho man In charge I had heard they could send boys to do anything any-thing he said afterwards but I thought that would be too much for them but not a bit of it I I I was in a horrible fix My wifes maid was taken suddenly ill and we had an important function that night and I could not find a maid at such short notice My w Ifos dress buttons or laces up the bncleI dont know which I have hurt my fingers and cannot help her and she cannot do it herself and thoro are no other servants ser-vants In the house Later tho lady who had been buttoned but-toned up and the boy were interviewed inter-viewed Said the lady Ho was as quick and light lingered as my own maid My 1 dress is a particularly par-ticularly awkward one to fasten too but In less than a minute ho had got tho hooks and eyes to meet and u i glance at myself In tho glass assured uio that I was perfectly dressed The boy declared he had never done a job like this before but I can hardly believe it Afterwards just to try him I made him take down sonic of my skills from a cupboard and fold them ready for packing He did it beautifully Tho boy n fresh faced youngster of about 14 said ho had nover done this particular job before Hut often wo get curious Jobs which we know very little about he said We soon get used to using our brains and lingers on any emergency that may crop up Inquiries elucidated the fact that this Is not an isolated Instance of a boy acting as ladys maid A lady a few days ago In much tho punu circumstances arranged that ahoy a-hoy should be at her house at G p into in-to button her up at tho back and again at 11 p m to unbutton her The fashion of dresses which but on at tho back where no woman can ousibly reach herself and the in creased cost of living which has Induced In-duced many people who hitherto had handmaids to endeavor to do without them has been responsible for this |