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Show OMAN! WOULD YOU IkU A POSITION AS LADY'S MID? CHICAGO, Jan. 30. Men supplanted maids as house servants at the Young- Women's Christian hotel here today. A shortage of housemaids forced employment of men, said Mrs. J. M. Sharp, a matron of the hotel, who declared the substitution sub-stitution proved very satisfactory. satisfac-tory. Mrs. Sharp expressed the opinion that "g-eneral substitution substitu-tion of housemen for housemaids house-maids is the only solution of the housemaid problem," and added: add-ed: "I got fifteen replies within with-in 24 hours in answer to an advertisement ad-vertisement for housemen but not one replied to an advertisement advertise-ment for housemaids." A friend of mine employs a Japanese as lady's maid to do her hair, hook her up and take care of her clothes." |