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...clerk who steals his friend's girl with fancy talk of his own mysterious powers. Author Moravia suggests his moral: the poor must resign themselves to being cheated. The best of the 27 stories is The Girl from Ciociaria, about a simple peasant wench who works as a maid for a professor and steals books from him. One day, in a fit of conscience, she decides to make good her theft-but while the books she stole were on archaeology, the ones she returns are about law. The girl cannot understand her employer's anger: "They...
...older princes, afraid to partake of the joys of the casino while King Saud was around, spent their time in their hotel rooms playing gin rummy and canasta at 10? a point. As they played, a shapely maid dropped around to deliver a cake. In less than a minute, she was back down in the hotel lobby, aflame with blushes. "The big one with the beard," she stammered, "he told me to take off my sweater." "I cannot understand," said one of Baden-Baden's hotel managers, "why there are no women in the party. I hope there...
With the demand for more and more help, domestics know only too well what wages they can command. An experienced live-in maid or cook frequently draws down as much as $250 a month v. $150 a few years ago, and a couple gets $600 a month, all plus free room and board; even live-out maids earn upwards of $200 a month, and the increasingly popular part-time cleaning woman averages $10 a day. What is more, the servant chooses the family, not vice versa. Says Mrs. Betty A. Heinke, who runs a California employment agency: "First...
...good home-are so old hat that few agencies bother to inquire. The woman who wants help soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid breakfast as well as a thumping good lunch on the job, the same food the family...
...them even in the high noon of growing up, and are ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved, and of owning Paradise House, the stately manor where her aunt is a lady's maid. While the Walter Mittys of this world use such dreams only as cushions, Angel uses hers as deadly weapons. With demoniac energy she pours her imaginings into a series of extremely bad, extremely popular novels...