PAID TO EAT

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 June 1937, Page 10

PAID TO EAT

GIRL S TEN MEALS A DAY. NEW YORK, April 21. Anna Martin of New Yt\rk City eats for a living, sometimes as many as 10 meals in a day. She is employed by-a chain of restaurants and patronises New York’s hotels, restaurants, tearooms and r.uidwich shops,'duplicating her breakfast live times and then partaking of mother five luncheon ; or dinners. iHer object is ,to- check up on the quantity and quality of food served, Trices, courtesy and swiftness of the service, and every possible detail which yould help her employers. Miss .Martin is only 0119 of the women i’j unusual occupations ticketed in ■the files of the American Woman's Association.

M!*s Douglas Elliman announces she ’is ready to take care of ail kinds of requests from “airplane tickets to zebras.” Her staff meets boats and trains, finds chaperones for young v.omen on trips to the city..and supplies features,for parlies and clubs. Mrs Josephine Whitney Oilman Ims another , type of bureau called “Personal Service," which she started when she lost Her job us secretary. Her employees act as guides to the ••ity, shop for patrons, act.as advisers for women who are alone, and visit Ttay-at-homes, dropping in for an hour cf backgammon or reading or just conversation.

The association reports that one Hollywood. Calif, woman raises spiders that are used whenever scripts call for cobwebby effects. Miss Ida Mellen is at work on an all fish ciicyclopedia. Miss Mellen is said Io have attempted to train starfish to turn somersaults, For IS days. 10 times a day the starfish are said Io have performed thu feat and I hen, after a week’s vacation, to have forgotten 1 heir art.

Mi;-s .Mildred Johnson m credited with managing the first air shopping rm vice. Airport, employees co-operate i?t helping her m fill orders which run all (Jic way from horned toads to orange blossoms. .

Then there is the Social Placement I'm,'cun, which is said to have on it ; list about 100 society girls who ;:r- -;• :.dy (o sell their signatures and autographs as endorsements of m urntactured 'products. A girl vho.?' i-.sti-moijial is used with a phologr; m of

her face receives around 50 d dh>r while full-length photograph b-im? nywhere from 400 to liitiu

.Miss Joan U. !:<• ti ;; l»'ir< in •art'iug the polite ..ayitiao which telephone operators ami -clerks now are taught to use, such as "Good morning. Mr Smith. It’s s o’clock, ami you’ll want your rubbers to-day. H's raining.”