The Lady 'Universal Providers.'

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 430, 21 December 1889, Page 3

The Lady 'Universal Providers.'

Canon Duckworth has opened the new premises of the Lady Ouido Association, at Cockspur-street, London. These premises, writes :i representative who had an apportunity of going over them this morning, seem to be adapted in every way to the objects of the Association. Inquiry offices for apartments, servants, house- keepers, governesses, guides, companions, and so on, occupy the lefb side of the ground floor ; opposite these are- the moneychanging and bookkeeping departments. At the back is a large refreshmentroom. Over these there is, in the front, a large waiting-room for ladies and gentlemen, and behind the office of the manageress. Higher still there arc rooms ' for ladies only.' Here letters may be written, dressmakers may be consulted, new dresses tried on, servants engaged, and tea obtained. Indeed, there are so many advantages offered to ladies in the rooms devoted to their sole use, that it is difficult to remember them all. There is sleeping aocomnr.odation for ladies, a w"6rk-room for the ' guide?,' a box-room tor loft luggage, and a smaller one for parcels. •We do not mean to be asked for anything we cannot supply,' said JNliss Edith A. Davis, the manageress, proudly. ' What one lady can do or get for another shall be done or supplied here.' 'We have ladies with most varied qualifications, and we fit them all in somewhere ; and during the nine months that the Association has been started, we have given entire satisfaction — that is our best recommendation. We cannot, however, give any more ladies employment just at present, unless they speak some other language than English.' The Association starts on a new financial basis, with a capital of £5,000, which has been advanced by three gentlemen. But this is not the only financial a? sistance that the new venture has received. A benevolent lady has given £200 to a fund that has been started to give the ' Guides ' holidays. I forgot to say, too, that the house is decorated throughout in pale green and chocolate, the carpets and furniture matching. — London paper.

The expression " fcho long and short of , it " is never better understood than when a man longs for money when ho is short of it. "Hello, Jim ! How did you get that black eye ?' — " Oh, I got that for telling the truth."—" How so?"—" I told a man that he lied." '•Clara, that horrid Mr Slick has just left. Ido think he has a lying tongue ?"— " I shouldn't be surprised. I know he lias false teeth." In the " Times " there is an advertise ment : " Old Lady's Teas." So lav as our experience goes, they don't tenee as much aa young ladies.