Its 21 rooms had basement quarters for a governess, cook, maid, laundress and chauffeur.
His mood improved in Beijing, where he was able to live comfortably (he had his own cook, maid and rickshaw boy) and quickly fell in with other expatriates.
"Mabel is her own cook, maid and bath steward, as for her being a wife, I have little or no time to be a husband".
As such, our days are filled with school, work, home, and sports, with me serving as glorified chauffeur, cook, maid, tutor, nurse, and personal shopper.
Depending on the amount of money you wish to spend, and the number of people you invite, your house will come with a cook, maids to do the laundry and make the beds, even a gardener to make sure that fresh flowers are placed in the house every day.
Brought up, at least some of the time, in a large country house with a butler, footman, cook, kitchen-maid, scullery maid, housemaids, lady's maid, coachman, chauffeur and gardeners, Diana Athill had a charmed childhood, full of the accoutrements – horses, hunting, balls – of a landed gentry background that fostered an "indecent sense of superiority".
She hopes to have people in for dinner some day but has had a hell of a time trying to get a cook-maid.
A gratuity of 15percentt for the cooks, maids and wranglers is added to the bill.
The brothels range from small sets of sparse trailers to elaborate resorts, and owners estimate that they employ an additional 500 people as bartenders, cooks, maids and managers.
Like all of those groups, the Hispanics have been drawn here by ample work in service to the affluent as cooks, maids, landscapers and construction workers.
Over the last 10 years, when organized labor has been suffering setbacks across the country, Hattie Canty's union (she is president of Local 226) which represents hotel workers--cocktail waitresses, dishwashers, fry cooks, maids and so forth--in nearly all of Las Vegas's major casino hotels, has more than doubled its membership.
