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FAMILY COUNSELOR
HOUSEKEEPER
Wanda Edwards, America's youngest hotel executive and Miss American Hotels of 1949, told Terry, "Housekeeping is a glamorous profession."
Housekeeping is a glamorous profession." That's what twenty-four -year-old Wanda Edwards, America's youngest hotel executive, had to say when she visited the Burtons recently.
Wanda was selected Miss American Hotels of 1949 following a country-wide contest conducted by the 500,000 hotel employees in the nation's 6,000 leading hotels. She was chosen on the basis of courtesy, service and personality as well as for beauty.
When I asked Wanda how she happened to become a housekeeper rather than something more glamorous, she replied, "I tried my hand at acting and did some modeling, but you become dated so fast. Housekeeping is glamorous in itself and is actually a fascinating business. So many women look upon it as a drudgery. But they're wrong. For like anything else, it's a challenge — to the housewife with one room just as well as a hotel of 200 rooms."
Wanda told us that she's responsible for keeping the Bannock Hotel in Pocatello, Idaho, in top-running order, and each year she "keeps house" for over 50,000 guests. I know the trouble I have taking care of seven rooms, and I asked Wanda how she manages taking care of 200.
"It's a chore I'll admit," she said. "But there's one rule that I follow which is a rule that will help housewives ease their duties. That's to set up a strict schedule."
"Just what kind of schedule," I inquired.
"A schedule that includes everything," was Wanda's
reply. "You know most men when they hear the word 'housekeeping' think only of the obvious things like bedmaking, vacuuming and so on. Women often have that idea too. But like the rest of life, it's the small things that count and it's taking care of these small things that makes for a better household."
Wanda told us that every Monday, all mirrors and tiles are cleaned. Tuesdays, closets, mop boards, medicine closets and light fixtures are gone over. Wednesdays, shower curtains are changed, and the woodwork is done, and so on for the rest of the week. "Every maid in the hotel carries a schedule with her and once they get used to the system, they're surprised how well it works," Wanda added.
In addition to Wanda's other duties at the hotel, she supervises all interior decorating. She mentioned that room by room she's re-decorating the hotel in a completely modernistic style — using bright colors, such as chartreuse, brick red and canary yellow predominantly. I was interested to learn that from her experiments, she's found that vivid colors are more restful than quiet ones.
Wanda concluded by saying, "Once a guest sleeps in one of the more modern rooms, on his next visit he will always request the same type of room. And many women write me at the hotel to say they have tried several similar color schemes in their own homes and that the reaction has been grand."
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By TERRY BURTON
Every Wednesday ie Family Counselor Day on The Second Mrs. Burton, which is heard • on CBS Monday through Friday from 2 to 2:15 P.M. EST. The sponsor is General Foods.
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