LONDON TIMES' LATEST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10848, 15 December 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)

LONDON TIMES' LATEST.

Everybody must have heard of late of the London Times's Book' Club and of the great paper's 'recent row with the London Publishers. It would seem, however, that the energies of the management of the Thunderer are by no means limited to fighting the Battle of the Books. Whether it was that "Books" suggested "cooks" we cannot say, but the fact remains that The Times and the threepenny and aristocratic Thunderer will find a situation for you ; or if you are an employer, it will obtain a servant for you, provided, of course, that you patronise its columns. Here is its appeal to the cooks, parlormaids, and butlers of England, addressed to them m the form of a circular : •

It is very much to your advantage to take a situation m a family where The Times is taken. A family which pays threepence for a daily paper (which is the price of The Times), instead of a penny or a halfpenny, is evidently a family of the best class, keeping a number of servants, so that they are company for each other. These families (i.e., families taking m a threepenny daily paper) are not cheap, common-place people, but good families, haying fine establishments, and too anxious to have everything of the best not to keep plenty of servants for the work to be done. Just delightful to find the all-powerful Times inspiring Jeames with a lofty contempt for the "cheap, common-place people ' who spend less than threepence oh a daily paper ! The Monarch of Print-ing-house Square also appeals to employers, iv these terms :

The Times will, at its West End ■ advertisement office, undertake to o?j---tain servants for employers on a new and convenient plan. An advertisement will be inserted m The Times, and the answers received by a competent staff at the West End advertisement office, who have had long 'experience m finding servants for employers. Servants whose characters have been first investigated as above will be selected, and sent to call on the employer by the appointment of the latter, until a satisfactory one has been engaged. Employers are asked to fil lin the following form : — The Times West End Advertisement Mice, 376 Oxford street, London,

lo the Manager,— I require a servant as described below, and will pay. when suited, The Times's fee 0f...!..:.! (to include an advertisement m The limes). (Here follows a complete descnption of the kind of servant required). For this service The Times makes the following charges, payable only when the servant has been found :— In town, 11s 6d (annual subscribers to The Times, 10s 6d). Out of town, 13s 6d /annual subscribers to The Times, 12s 6d). Ine Times denies that it is running a liZ an H a g 1 c . IU "y' but Jt is l l»ite dear tM TJ?? Times>s Book Club, as the Daily Mirror euphemistically terms it, only differs from the ordinary servants' registry office m that the fee is inclusive ot the cost of au "ad." "Oh tempora, O mores!