A laundress once a week................................ $2.60
Home Assistant, on duty from 7.30 A.M. to 2 P.M........ 10.00
Home Assistant, on duty from 12 M. to 9 P.M............ 15.00
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Week...............................................$27.60
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On this schedule the work was done better than ever
before.  There was no longer any grievance about
the washing.  Mrs. B. had some one continuously
on duty.  The morning assistant was allowed a half
hour at noon to eat her luncheon which she brought
with her.  As Mrs. B. entertained a great deal,
especially at luncheon, she arranged to have the schedule
of the two assistants overlap at this time of day. 
The morning worker, it will be noted, was employed
for only six hours.  The afternoon worker was
a trained assistant and, therefore, received fifteen
dollars a week.  She had an hour off, between three-thirty
and four-thirty and was on duty again in time to serve
tea or afternoon refreshments.  If there were
a number of extra people for dinner, the assistant
was expected to stay until nine and there was never
any complaining about too much company.  Mrs.
B. has a better apartment and saves money every month
besides!
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(New York Sun)
SIX YEARS OF TEA ROOMS
BUSINESS CAREER OF A WOMAN COLLEGE GRADUATE
“For the last three years I have cleared $5,000
a year on my tea rooms,” declared a young woman
who six years ago was graduated with distinction at
one of the leading colleges of the country.
“I attained my twenty-third birthday a month
after I received my diploma.  On that day I took
stock of the capital with which I was to step into
the world and earn my own living.  My stock taking
showed perfect health, my college education and $300,
my share of my father’s estate after the expenses
of my college course had been paid.
“In spite of the protests of many of my friends
I decided to become a business woman instead of entering
one of the professions.  I believed that a well
conducted tea room in a college town where there was
nothing of the kind would pay well, and I proceeded
to open a place.
“After renting a suitable room I invested $100
in furnishings.  Besides having a paid announcement
in the college and town papers I had a thousand leaflets
printed and distributed.
“Though I couldn’t afford music I did
have my rooms decorated profusely with flowers on
the afternoon of my opening.  As it was early in
the autumn the flowers were inexpensive and made a
brave show.  My only assistant was a young Irish
woman whom I had engaged for one month as waitress,
with the understanding that if my venture succeeded
I would engage her permanently.
“We paid expenses that first afternoon, and
by the end of the week the business had increased
to such an extent that I might have engaged a second
waitress had not so many of my friends persisted in
shaking their heads and saying the novelty would soon
wear off.  During the second week my little Irish
girl and I had so much to do that on several occasions
our college boy patrons felt themselves constrained
to offer their services as waiters, while more than
one of the young professors after a long wait left
the room with the remark that they would go elsewhere.