AIRING FOR BABIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 107, 9 May 1933, Page 6

AIRING FOR BABIES

AMBITIOUS SCHOOLGIRL. Muriel Barfield, of Dresden .Road, London, is one of England’s coming business women. Although she is only a thirteeh-year-old schoolgirl, she is already running a small spare-time business of her own, and she is Britain’s youngest advertiser. The girl takes out babies for busy mothers and employs her school friends to help her. As she is not allowed to advertise in the newspapers she puts notices in the windows of stationers’ shops. “My idea,” Muriel told an interviewer lately, “is to get as many babies as possible and then employ my friends to help me take them out. I see that they really take care of the babies and do not leave them while they go off to play. I manage the accounts and collect the money. If I get one shilling a week from the mothers I give my friends ninepence and keep threepence for myself.” This work is done by Muriel after school-hours and during the week-ends, but it does not stop her from being one of the brightest girls in the school, and she nearly always comes near the top of her cfess. Muriel’s chief hobby is the cinema, and she confessed that her main object in. taking out babies is to get pocket money to see more and more films. But she has great ambitions to be a business woman when she grows up.