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FROM THE ARCHIVEApr 10, 1938·Washington, District of Columbia

MAIDS POLISHING GLASS AT NIGHT

Scanned from Evening Star, Apr 10, 1938
MAIDS POLISHING GLASS AT NIGHT
Source image courtesy of the Library of Congress · Chronicling America
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Une of the scores of maids who polish glass down to the last fingerprint Star Staff Photo STORES ARE BEEHIVES AT NIGHT Housekeeping Duties on Elaborate Scale Required to Polish and Renew in Preparation for Public to Be Received. When Morning ComesService for 24 Hours By V csta Cummings WHEN you wonder where all the dust has come from as you survey your fourroom apartment in the morning end why the laundry man didnt re turn the sheets and why the Sunday chickens are tough again console yourself by thinking of the job con t fronting another housekeeper. Mrs Department Store With activities that keep her on her feet 24 hours daily she is the chate laine for the retail palaces in which every woman adores to browse and buy endlessly. And her vast estab lishment must be kept at all times lust as you have your home when ex pecting your husbands relatives.

Mrs Department Store cannot sit herself down to listen to the radio after members of the sales force have shrouded display goods for the night and the last belated customer has left the building. It is then that she must so to speak put out th.

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