"UNIVERSAL AUNTS"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 16

"UNIVERSAL AUNTS"

According to tha "Westminster Gazette," it is a growing custom, for women, who can no longer afford to keep up fashionable houses to take ovor charge of those the owners of whioh are away. One titled woman is said to have established a considerable clientele. She moves from one house to another fulfilling the offices of a steward in the master's abs.enoe. Another takes over such duties for six months in the year, and is thus enabled to keep up her own house during the rest of tho year.. Associations such as "Uiiiveraal aunts" and "Useful Women," who supply workers for a hundred and one kincita of social work, are constantly receiving; applications from titled people for employment. Choiperoning is another office for .which women eagerly offer themselves. Americans, who like to send their daughters to visit Europe frequently, make ua3 of the services of Englishwomen, whose, prestige and savoir-faire are most valuable on the Continent. There are many duties which reciuire no special knowledge with which societies like "Universal Aunts" can put them in-touch. Taking caro--of children, mending baohelors' clothes, iproviding emergency bridge players, and eacereising dpg» are amongst the varied kinds .of work given,