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Show German Women of Noble Rank Must Work at Odd Jobs BERLIN, uct. 7. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press, i The fight :or a living liv-ing has tlrhen an increasing number of German women of rank Into thd world as bread winners, in face of I the winter's, first chilly blasts many women, who formerly were hostesses at Berlin's brilliant social functions, are set-king shelter behind the dporfl of employment organisations able to I furnish thorn With odd jobs. A varied assortment appear every morning In the heuflo.uarlern established estab-lished by the housewives' association of Greater Berlin, This association , aims to provide the need) of the mid- i die classes with employment, The or- i dtnury burgher's wife may be V i 11 alongside a professor's wife or H countess. The association examines the app',1- .nit regarding thlr ability to lit) ,. tain kinds of work and 'gh Instruction In-struction free, If required. IThatP labor exchanges are un to conceal the former social btatus ol their would-be employes. A major's, wife recently applied to the exchange for a house maid. The major saw the applicant and thought that it might ! cause her embarrassment and ex-plained ex-plained to the exchange officials lint It was impossible for him to engage her. A COUntess, who occupied a dls-nngulshed dls-nngulshed soclr.l position before the war. was assigned a servant's position recently. Investigators declare that the ;er-man ;er-man exchange rate bus caused ruin for the middle classes. .Many who, bad acquired a omrnrtable fortune now find themselves virtually pennl-less pennl-less because the currency la wor'.h j only 1 -SOOth of its former value |