Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-19
SCHOOL FoR DoMEsTIcs.

Mrs. Logan's Plan for the Solution of the
Servant-(sirl Problem.
And now for the solution of Servant
gal-ism!
It is rumored that Mrs. General 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 $50, 900 and a stock company,
is organizing a normal school for domes-
tics.
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-fingered. soft-soled. clean
frocked brigade of cooks, laundresses
and maids of the pantry. parlor, scullery
and nursery. The main school will be
located in this city and foreign and do
nestle help will be received without
question or 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, window and
glass polishing, table service and like
duties are meant. Only the more intel
ligent applicants will be taken through
the course, skill in any one line or class
being sufficient recommendation for a
position that will make girl self-sup-
porting. This diploma or card of merit
will be accepted as character or ref
erence all over the country.
B A girl of snowy 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
laces, curtains linen, flannel and cotton
cloths, the pupil being taught how to
wash fine cambria handkerchiefs and
delicate laces without rubbing or
wringing them. Chops and steak, toast,
mullins and pancakes will form the
broiling lessons; joints, vegetables and
picked meats will go with the pots, and
bread, rolls, roasts, poultry and pastry
with the oven. Muddy coffee, leathery
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will be sufficient cause for suspension,
and during the training each pupil will
be charged with the dishes she breaks
or chips, and the materials, whether
food, fuel or gas wasted.
Babies will be borrowed from indus
trial schools and bathed, dressed, fed
and cared for in class. Every girl will
have the encouragement of a trial as
pupil, but no pupil will be retained or
given diploma who is not healthy,
honest, sober. Industrious, clean and
capable. Deserving, promising and
painstaking women will be assisted by
special training, wise counsel and per-
sonal influence, provided with good
positions and permitted to make their
home in the school when out of employ
ment.
1t is the intention of these public
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 their
youth and energies at tasks that scarcely
yield a suficiency to sustain ife.-N.
Y. World.