St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-25
SOLUTION OF SERVANTGALISM
Mrs. Logan's Plan for the Relic
Womankind.

OF Womankind.
And now for the solution of Servant
galism!
1t is rumored that Mrs. Gen. Logan,
weary of chaperoning giggling girls
about and across the continents, has set
tied down to the study of domestic econ
omy and familiar philosophy and with
a capital of $4,000 and a stock company.
with Miss Frances Willard, Mrs. Ellen
Foster and Miss Kate Sanborn as chief
directors, is organizing normal school
for dOmeStics.
These ladies intend to bring about by
intelligent study and efficient training
the long and much needed kitchen re-
form. The days of the dish cracker are
numbered and the grenadier steak
toughener and potato soaker has out
lived her occupation. Forward, march !!
the light-fngered. Soft-coai. clean-trock-
ed brigade of cooks,s lundresses and
maids of the pantry, parlor. Scu!lery
and nursery. The main school Will be
located in this city and foreign and
domestic help will be received without
question OF credential.
A graded course of study will be pro-
vided, consisting of practical lessons in
cooking, cleaning, sweeping, washing
and ironing, nursing, and miscellany,
by which securing, busting, win dow
and glass polishing, table service and
like duties are meant. Only the more in
telIigent applicants will be taken
through the course, skill in any one line
OF class being sufficient recommendation
for a position that will make girl self
supporting. This diploma or card of
merit will be accepted as Character
or reference all over the country.
A girl showing aptneSS and possessed
of sufficient mental ability to warrant
such instruction will be given higher
training, including foods, hygienic cook
ing, sanitation, and interior decoration
as applied to picture and curtain hang
ing, carpet cleaning and the care OF
sleeping rooms. In the laundry prac-
teal lessons will be given in doing up
lace, curtains, linen, flannel and cotton
clothes; the pupil being taught how
to wash fine cambria handkerchlefS and
delicate laces without rubbing OF wiring
ing them. Chops and steak, toast, muf-
fins and pancakes will form the brolllng
lessons; joints, vegetables and picked
meats will go with the pots, and bread,
rolls. roasts. poultry and pastry with the
oven. Muddy coffee, leathery steak,
sodden biscuit and sour bread will be
sufficient cause for suspension, and dur
ing the training each pupil will be
charged with the dishes she breaks or
chips and the material, whether food,
fuel or gas, wasted.
Babies will be borrowed from indust-
rial schools and bathed, dressed, fed and
cared for in class. Every girl will have
the encouragement of trial as a pupil,
! but no pupil will be retained or given a
diploma who is not healty, honest, sober,
industrious. clean and capable. Desery-
ing, promising and painstabing women
will be assisted by special training, wise
counsel and personal influence, proyld-
ed with good positions and permitted to
make their home in the school when out
of employment.
spirited ladies to offer sufficient induce,
ment to bring from the country towns
and tenementS of the city those bright
young, intelligent girls who go to the
factories and shops and waste theiI
youth and energies at tasks that scarce
Iy yield sufficieucy to sustain life.