METHOD OF ENGAGING. 329 



Please find photograph enclosed as requested. In the 

 event of being engaged by you, I should like to know if there 

 is any public school convenient for my children. I am, 



Yours respectfully, 



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ENGAGING. 



It is advisable to state that answers to such queries shall 

 be sent either to the general post office or to the place of 

 business in order to avoid bringing your departing servant 

 in direct or indirect contact with applicants for the position. 

 Having received a supply of answers to your postals, from 

 those advertising for places or to your own advertisement, 

 cull them over, notice how much intelligence or ignorance 

 has been shown in answering the questions and let it bear 

 much influence in the final decision. Next observe what 

 reference for past work and character is given in a personal 

 letter from the last employer to yourself, not in the thumbed 

 note carried by the applicant. 



The method of engaging a servant from industrial bureaus, 

 etc., is by personal interview when the arrangements regarding 

 wages expected, and so forth, may be made. A personal 

 recommendation from the last employer should be obtained. 

 The borrowing or exchange of references is not uncommon. 



The objection to engaging a man through a harness 

 dealer or carriage manufacturer is that a certain amount of 

 indebtedness is thereby established which the servant endeav- 

 ors to pay off by directing your ''business " into the hands 

 of the dealer. 



If an advertisement is inserted in a paper for a coach- 

 man or groom, it should be worded as follows, so that worth- 

 less servants will not apply for the position. 



