WORKED AS SERVANT

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 88, 4 November 1938, Page 8

WORKED AS SERVANT

A GERMAN BARONESS IN

ENGLAND

(From The Guardian's London

Correspondent)

LONDON, October 15. Aletta, Baroness Hahn, daughter of w' a former member of the German Reichstag and a great landowner in ,'<; pre-war Germany, was discovered this week working as a domestic ser- : , vant in the house of a London doctor. She has been in England just over a year and took this job not for money, which she does not need, but \_, "for a lark." She loves England, >- ', and the English, arid wants to write a book. So she answered an adver- I tisement as plain Miss Hahn, put on J: some old clothes and shabby shoea for the interview, and was engaged..^,, v She started work a few days ago. "But they soon found me out," she * said thw week, "and I have got to _>^fcl leave. For one thing, being quite in-' experienced, I made so many mia- /'-"': takes. I put the tea trolley " on *ri the wrong side for the bridge party. ";? I was no good at scrubbing floors. I : could never get myself up at 6.45 ~*r - in the morning. Then my employer's f; suspicions were aroused when I horf rowed Shaw's Intelligent Woman's ",--.f Guide-to Socialism to read. It seema „:' that English parlourmaids don't read ; . that kind of book. Then letters be- V;' gan to arrive for me addressed to A

Baroness Hahn, and that—well, of ",: course, that finished it"