USEFUL WOMEN.
An advertisement headed “Useful Women’ in the “Fortnightly Review” gives a remarkable list of work undertaken by “a band of efficient gentlewomen ready for an emergency.” It includes the following: —House-hunting, furnishing, decorating, light laundry, and mending for bachelors, flowers arranged, dinner speeches prepared, weekly household accounts, old furniture renovated and cared for, invitations issued, reading aloud; auctions, horticultural shows, etc., attended, and reports written; girls chaperoned, advised on dress, and how to lay out money with taste and economy; lady servants provided, libraries catalogued, indexing and filing, heraldic or genealogical researches made,, conversation lessons in all European and some Oriental languages, orders taken for home-hade jam and new laid eggs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1922, Page 10
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113USEFUL WOMEN. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1922, Page 10
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