"WORKING FOR A LARK"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 11

"WORKING FOR A LARK"

GERMAN BARONESS DISCOVERY IN LONDON [from a special correspondent] LONDON. Nov. 10 The daughter of a former member of the German Reichstag and a great land-owner in pre-war Germany, Aletta, Baroness Hahn, was discovered working as a domestic servant in the houise of a London doctor. She has been in England just over a year, and took this position not for money, which she does not need, but "for a lark." She loves England, and the English, and wants to write a book. So she answered an advertisement as plain Miss Hahn, put on some old clothes and shabby shoes for the interview, and was engaged. She started work a few days ago. "But they soon found me out," she said this week, "and I have got to leave. For one thing, being quite inexperienced, J made so many mistakes. "I put the tea trolley on the wrong side for the bridge party. I was no good at scrubbing floors. I could get myself up at 6.45 in the morning; Then my employer's suspicions were aroused when I borrowed Shaw's In; telligent "Woman's Guide to Socialism to read. It seems that English parlour* maids do not read that of book. Then letters arfjve for mo addressed to Baroness Haliui and that —well, of course, that finished it."