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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1913
Page
4
Two sisters secrete 2 frivolous Affairs gag seeking work after family loss. An innuendo filled letter leads to Marla Crowninshield Hazard, Mrs Frederick Hazard, inviting a companion at the Somerset. The narrator weighs duties, nerves, and a possible sublimated lady’s maid role amid awkward social intrigue.
In a vivid scene, Maria Crowninshield Haz ard assesses Jo Codman and her sister Lonlie by personal taste and social polish. The interview explores hobbies, music, and baseball knowledge as a necessary step toward a delicate proposition, with observations on class, privacy, and ambition.
A narrator recalls meeting Mrs. Hazard who hires a young woman to be the family’s "Secretary of Frivolous Affairs" aiding the daughter’s debut and steering Hap toward other social interests. The wage is set at three thousand a year with no two week clause, and the narrator agrees to the plan while pondering the baseball connection.
Miss Florence McArdle, a Boston University senior, heads the girls department of the students employment bureau. About a hundred women students found work this year, as the bureau connects them with households offering room board laundry and car fares in exchange for duties. McArdle Navarra is earning her tuition by hours worked at the bureau while she previously supported herself by tutoring and office work.
A Vermont general store keeper fails to weigh a half pound of melted maple sugar for a boy, slopping syrup into a pot and causing the scales to bang. The clerk finally returns the pot and tells the boy to tell his mother they cannot make a half pound of maple sugar.
A clipped remark extols Willis as a remarkable man and the best hod carrier in the world though noting he has not written a magazine article on hod carrying nor delivered a Chautauqua lecture. The exchange mentions vauleville and Puok in a tongue in cheek manner.
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