COOK-CHAUFFEURS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 20

COOK-CHAUFFEURS

AN AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT.

In some of the smart housed of Toorak the duties of the female domestics are taking a picturesque turn, says a writer in the "Western 1 Mail."' The cook and laundress combination seems as extinct as the dodo; and the washerwoman called in with expensive regularity, is looked upon by the domestics as belonging to a much lower plane of civilisation than themselves. There is a new duty, however, that the cook is not above assuming. And in the assumption she is earning the. malevolence of the hithgjto arro- ' gunt, indispensable chauffeur. She will cheerfully drive her mistress's car. Mistresses hail the concession gladly. Lately., chauffeurs-have shown a tendency to steer tho wheel too much in their own favoured direction. If the mistress Has wanted ail.extra rubber of bridge at her club, they have resented the time of waiting. Now. Smith feels he is being passed over. For when the mistress exto overstay what.has arbitrarily'become her time limit, she takes Jane with her. Smith is left fuming. Soon he. will be .left out of the pictures altosetheiv The cook-chauffeur is cheerful and efficient. The absolute change of duties is beneficial. One of Toorak's most successful did fine work during the wur, when she drove a Red Cross car over every obstacle jn her path.