Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1911 — Servant in One Family for Fifty Years [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Servant in One Family for Fifty Years

CHICAGO. —Fifty years In the 'employ of one woman, whom she has served with rare Intelligence, eagerness and devoted loyalty, Is the wonderful record established by Miss Barbara Ritter, who has worked the half century for Mrs. Samuel Faulkner, 4746 Madison avenue. While thousands of women in Chicago have changed servants at ..the rate of ten a year, Mrs. Faulkner not only has retained the Invaluable assistance of her helper, but has won her stanch fealty for herself nnd her family. Miss Ritter, known as "Barbie” to the hundreds of friends of the Faulkner family and as famous among th**m for her personality as for her ginger cookies, has been Mrs. Faulkner's first lieutenant in the raising of the Faulkner family of eight children. Miss Ritter entered Mrs. Faulkner’s service fifty years ago as a nursemaid for the one little Faulkner of that time. Bhe was tireless, she liked work, she looked for work and she accomplished work faster than two other ordinary maids could have •one It. And all the time she was

happy in fts accomplishment For several years the Faulkners have been trying to retire “Barbie” from active work. But she retains the same energy that has always dominated her work and she refuses to be retired. The Faulkners are going to celebrate “Barbie’s" fiftieth anniversary of her coming to them, although she herself declares she cannot see why the event should be celebrated, since It was so natural that she should stay. But some hundreds of society worn* en and prominent professional and business men in Chicago, whose childhood recollections are indissolubly connected with memories of the Faulkners' “Barbie.” will aid the family tat giving tribute to Miss Ritter’s affem tlon and loyalty. « 11 i . i.A TOfillirtml