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 GUIDE

 TO

 HOTEL HOUSEKEEPING




 BY

 MARY E. PALMER

 1908




 Copyrighted 1908,

 BY

 MARY E. PALMER




 THE TRIBUNE PRINTING CO.
 Charleston. W. Va.




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CREDIT TO THE HOTEL WORLD.


The greater part of the contents of this book was published, in
instalments, in The Hotel World, of Chicago.




A FOREWORD.


My chief purpose in writing this book was to place a few guide-posts
along the route of hotel housekeepers to warn them against certain
errors common to women engaged in the arduous and difficult occupation
of keeping house for hotels.

If anything that I have set forth herein shall make the work of hotel
housekeepers easier, more inviting, or more efficient, thereby
contributing to the satisfaction of proprietors and to the comfort of
patrons, I shall feel amply repaid for writing this book.

 MARY E. PALMER.

 Hotel Ruffner,
     Charleston, West Va.
 March 1, 1908.




THE MANAGER AND THE HELP.


The average hotel manager is only too prone to complain of the
incompetency and the inefficiency of hotel "help."

It is true that it is difficult to secure skilled help, for there is no
sort of institution that trains men and women for the different kinds
of hotel work. Each hotel must train its own help, or obtain them from
other hotels.

Thus there is no uniform and generally accepted standard of excellence
in the different departments of hotel-keeping.

A good