[What Diantha Did by Charlotte Perkins Gilman]@TWC D-Link book
What Diantha Did

CHAPTER XI
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$2.00 Ten hours work a day, and furnish their own food.
Additional labor by the hour.......

$.20 Special service for entertainments, maids and waitresses, by the hour..........$.25 Catering for entertainments.
Delicacies for invalids.
Lunches packed and delivered.
Caffeteria...

12 to 2 What annoyed the young manager most was the uncertainty and irregularity involved in her work, the facts varying considerably from her calculations.
In the house all ran smoothly.

Solemn Mrs.Thorvald did the laundry work for thirty-five--by the aid of her husband and a big mangle for the "flat work." The girls' washing was limited.

"You have to be reasonable about it," Diantha had explained to them.


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