Continuing the story from the narrative. “One time my mother needed a new cook and she was interviewing applicants. She felt she was indebted at entertaining and was planning a series of dinner parties so she was looking for one who could make good desserts. A man named Manuel applied but he couldn’t make deserts and was turned down. About a week later he applied again in the mean time he had learned to make desserts and he was our cook for many many years. He made wonderful pies and his lemon pie became famous among my mother’s friends.
At the time I was in high school we had six servants. The cook. laundress, two house boys, the nurse maid and the chauffeur. In a country where the clothes were mostly cotton and silk and you changed often and there were no washing machines yet, a laundress was very necessary. The house boys did the house work. We had two because the younger one was the brother of the actual house boy and he was working for nothing so he could learn. Later we learned that actually he was learning to drive the car from the chauffeur because that was a higher paying job of course."
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