Professional Packers
In Paris that great city where all one's noed3 and caprices are caterod to, there aro profossions for womenentirely unknown in this country. And one is the professional packor. When you think of going away is not one of your sighs as to how you stiall get all your belonging9 in your trunks? When you reach your destination don't you flnd them creasod, mussed, and, if possible, what a tiny woman near me calis "in smithereens"? Well, the packer comes in, you teil her what you want to take away, and then lat her do her work, Skirts are skillfully folded, bodices have sheets of tissue paper laid between them, and the sleoves are stuffed to shape w.th it; slippers have their toes fillod with raw cotton so they do not reach their destination flattened out; and hats and bonnets have tapes attached to them so that they may be pinnod to the box or tray and will not move until you are ready to lift them out This is a work for which a busy or rich woman will pay well, and a woman who becomes an expert at it can, in the going-away time, make that mysterious amount known as "a tidy little sura" very easily. The paoker comes to the house, takes off her bodice and assumes a loĆ³se jacket, and then she is ready for her work. Who among the many who are asking for something for a woman to do will start in this profession'? It is a work easily learned and offers a variety tbat must appeal to every woman. Neither is it irksome, henee a profession which offers more than the usual advantages for woman's
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