"'Fourth Year. Post-graduate, not obligatory,'" she read. "'Unusual
German, Italian, Russian and Spanish dishes. Translation of menus.
Management of laundries, hotels and institutions. Work of a chef.
Work of subordinate cooks. Ordinary poisons. Common dangers of
canning. Canning for the market. Professional candy-making--'"

"Can you beat it!" said Owen.

"It's extraordinary!" Mrs. Salisbury conceded. Her husband asked the
all-important question:

"What do you have to pay for one of these paragons?"

"It's all here," Mrs. Salisbury said. But she was distracted in her
search of a scale of prices by the headlines of the various pages.
"'Rules Governing Employers,'" she read, with amusement. "Isn't this
too absurd? 'Employers of graduates of the A.S.D.S. will kindly
respect the conditions upon which, and only upon which, contracts
are based.'" She glanced down the long list of items. "'A
comfortably furnished room,'" she read at random, "'weekly half
holiday-access to nearest public library or family library--
opportunity for hot bath at least twice weekly--two hours if
possible for church attendance on Sunday--annual two weeks' holiday,
or two holidays of one week each--full payment of salary in advance,
on the first day of every month'--what a preposterous idea!" Mrs.
Salisbury broke off to say. "How is one to know that she wouldn't
skip off on the second?"

"In that case the school supplies you with another maid for the
unfinished term," explained Sandy, from the booklet.