How Did She Find New Help?

Word of mouth was pretty big. She could talk to another superintendent housekeeper and another family and see if they had, you know, if anybody knew of somebody. There were also ads taken out in the newspapers. It would be the situation wanted kind of ad where a somebody who maybe worked as a chambermaid before and was let go, or didn't like their new place. And references were important too, right? Because i bet word travelled really fast in gilded age new york. If you didn't work out, then that could be tough t I get the feeling though, that a lot of it was personality driven.