janitresses

“He got on well with janitresses and wash-women, with Indians and with the peasant women of foreign countries.”

Youth and the Bright Medusa

“This drop into the cellars of the well-to-do gave me contact from another angle with janitors, janitresses, and servants.”

From the Bottom Up

“I encountered some rough work with janitors and janitresses in this region ” so rough, indeed, that I considered it a splendid missionary field; and when I found, crushed in the heart of that tenement region, a small Methodist Church, I became interested in its work.”

From the Bottom Up