Show bor y BUTTON U w M 8 BE SS cus custom tom inaugurated when one husband injured his hand messengers called upon frequently in london because gowns are so expensive many women cannot afford to keep maids london to many strange and unusual tasks have tho the boys of the district 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 90 round the world for you and all in answer to it a simple telephone call they ara are ubiquitous capable ready tor for anything but their latest achievement and surely the most unusual Js Is ta act as ladles ladies maids the other afternoon oon an excited man rushed into a district messenger office can you send a boy at once to lace up miladys ai a ladys dress he asked apparently in despair and obviously expecting to be mel mei with a scornful refusal Ceria certainly sir was the calm answer what address the address was duly given and the harassed man walked off mopping his brow 1 I told the man in charge I 1 had heard they could send boys to do anything he said afterwards but I 1 thought that would be too much for them but not a bif of it 1 I was ln a horrible lix fix my cifes maid was taken suddenly ill and we had bad an important function that night and I 1 could not find a mald maid at such short notice my cifes dress buttons or laces lacea up tip the back I 1 dont know which I 1 have hurt my fl fingers and cannot help her and she cannot do it herself and there are no other servants in the house later the lady who had been buttoned up and the boy were interviewed said the lady he was as quick and light fingered its AS myown my own maid my dress iu 18 a particularly ticul arly arli awkward one to fasten too but in less than a minute he had got the hooks and eyes to meet and u glance at myself in the plass glass assured me that I 1 was perfectly dressed the boy declared he had never done a job like this before but I 1 can hardly believe it After afterwards warda just to try him I 1 made him takedown some of my skirts from a cupboard and fold them ready for packing lie he did it beautifully tho the boy a fresh faced youngster of bout about 14 said he be had never done this particular job before but often we get curious joba which wo we know very little about he ha said we soon get used to using our brains and fingers on any emerge emergency ncy that may crop up inquiries elucidated tho the fact that this Is not an isolated instance of a boy acting as ladys maid A lady a few fews days ago in much the same circumstances arranged that a boy should be at her house at 6 p ra in to button her up at the back and again at 11 p in to unbutton her the fashion of dresses which button at the back where no woman can possibly reach herself and the in creased cost of living which has induced many people who hitherto had handmaids hand maids to endeavor to do without them has been responsible for this |