The servants in the author's parents' home as well as those of both sets of grandparents, the Roods and the Quans. The Quans had Irish except for the butler and the laundress who were black. The Roods had Scandinavians. The author inherited one Swedish girl who got married, so she became the grand dame of the wedding. The underground railway brought Black people to Evanston, who worked as domestic servants for the whole area. The Great Depression affected farming so there were the girls needing jobs, called Prairie Flowers. World War II put an end to the domestic market.