. Recollections of full years. mit-ting the unforgivable sin of not dividing the squeeze. There is no use going into what squeeze means in theOrient. It may come partly out of the masters pocketand partly out of the pockets of the tradesmen; nobodyknows. But the housekeeper soon learns that she gainsnothing by trying to circumvent the system in doing themarketing herself. The squeeze works, no matter whodoes the buying, and it soon comes to be recognised as alegitimate part of household expenses. The only thingthat one can do is to make a complaint when it becomestoo heavy. It seems to have be
. Recollections of full years. mit-ting the unforgivable sin of not dividing the squeeze. There is no use going into what squeeze means in theOrient. It may come partly out of the masters pocketand partly out of the pockets of the tradesmen; nobodyknows. But the housekeeper soon learns that she gainsnothing by trying to circumvent the system in doing themarketing herself. The squeeze works, no matter whodoes the buying, and it soon comes to be recognised as alegitimate part of household expenses. The only thingthat one can do is to make a complaint when it becomestoo heavy. It seems to have been very heavy in my husbands es-tablishment, and investigation proved to him that it wasnecessary to let number one go, so when I arrived there werejust the two upstairs servants, the cook and number two,who had been promoted to the proud position of numberone. I went immediately to work to order my household as Ialways had been used to doing, and theres where I began to get my experience of the Oriental character. My cook 104.
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