Guide to Hotel Housekeeping

About this eBook

Author

Palmer, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1868-

Credits

Produced by Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

TX: Technology: Home economics

Subject

Hotels

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35066

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35066

Release Date

January 25, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GUIDE — TO — HOTEL HOUSEKEEPING — BY
2. 2.MARY E. PALMER — 1908 — CREDIT TO THE HOTEL WORLD.
3. 3.A Foreword.
4. 4.The Manager and the Help.
5. 5.Feeding and Rooming the Help.
6. 6.Requirements of a Housekeeper.
7. 7.The Housekeeper and the "Help."
8. 8.The Hotel Proprietor's Wife.
9. 9.Character in the Hotel Business.
10. 10.Room Inspection.
11. 11.Gossip Between Employes.
12. 12.The Progressive Housekeeper.
13. 13.The Housekeeper's Salary.
14. 14.Inspection and Cleaning of Rooms.
15. 15.How to Clean a Room.
16. 16.The Importance of Good Beds.
17. 17.How a Bed is Made.
18. 18.How to Clean Walls.
19. 19.How to Get Rid of Vermin.
20. 20.The Superiority of Vacuum Cleaning.
21. 21.The Linen-Room and the Linen-Woman.
22. 22.Care of Table-Linen.
23. 23.Laundry Work.
24. 24.The Housekeeper's Rules.
25. 25.The Parlor Maid.
26. 26.About Chambermaids.
27. 27.Miscellaneous Subjects.
28. 28.Why Hotel Employees Fail to Rise.
29. 29.Suggestions in Case of Fire.
30. 30.The Evolution of the Housekeeper.
31. 31.INDEX.

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