The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
TRAINING HOUSE SERVANTS.
Miss Dodge Says cho for the Pure
pose Are n Failure.

New York Times.
Miss Grace Dodge. who, as mistress Of
city. and from her ~weli-known interest in
working girls of all classes. is able to take
terested in several training schools for
Il have had a great deal of experience in
this whole question or training schools ior
servants she said; one great diileuity
take them when they are only thirteen or
fourteen; that makes too long a time in
which to keep them in training Then the
standard OF services is so low that an UNI
trained girl of eighteen or twenty can cer-
tainly find a position with some family. and
she feels by that time that she must be
doing something for her own support and,
perhaps, for that OF her family's; a.rora,4
schools that have been started and event.
ually given up. One was in connection with
Miss Juliet Corson had charge. There it
was found utterly impossible to get the
glpls 20 to 5rd the n Me nad q q Pay eSm % rat
young children for their services while. in
training. A house was taken and a number
of literary women and authors had rooms
But it was not a success,
"A house on Eleventh street was taken
at another time. To train a servant prop
erly it is necessary that she should have
everything to work with that she would
have in a frst-csass dwelling house. The
silverware, brass, and glassware. The school
was carried on for some time, and we sue
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servants as possible. People who We're hav-
ing trouble with their servants. always
looking for something new, heard of this
school and engaged the girls.
,rai nm Y g ~ ne no Z fhe mao work n1l 0 prope ergn
but they had also been accustomed to be-
under a considerate mistress. They came
peculiar treatment. One can hardly form
an idea of it. They had been Obliged to
inr accommodations. and had been mad9
thoroughly unhappy.
The best trained nurse cannot do well
under the direction of an incompetent mis-
tress. Schools for trained nurses are very
satisfactory, but with them 1t is different
keep them busy in a hospital. and they ara
not subject to any ones whims in the per-
fSrm fae eb Of taelr a and t dire mietres are 81 flf tse
house in which they are employed cannot
interfere.
.The cost for the support of the servants
and the conditions required for a satisfac-
tory training have always been found 50
There was not work enough to do 70 give
the girl the training. "A comparatively
small snr ! l numee Family IF se of neopl can W Se e ene T9 nos
keep, our girls indefinitely scrubbing ana
school were, first. the impossibility of get
ting women of the right age who were wills
ing to be trained; the cost per capita for
tresses. Women do not seem to know how
to treat their servants. i have yet to find
any woman who Is considerate who has
much trouble.
ut is surprising what some women will
only one servant is kept. and she is expect
ed to do the cooking. laundry work, to wait
on the door, keep her kitchen always in
perfect order, and prepare and serve the
course luncheons which the mistress and
her daughters give frequently. Another
woman, a -gentlewoman, who has in her
house fifteen or twenty boarders, expects
one servant to do all the work, cooking, and
waiting on the table.
II have talked with many titled people
abroad having large establishments. They
tell me that taking servants into their
houses is one form of their charitable
work. The young girls who belong on the
places are trained under the head house,
maid, and eventually, If they are satisfac-
establishments abroad there are, of course.
plenty Of room and good accommodations
for servants.
1--WE nave had servants go from our
family who we felt were really friends
A great many people treat their servant
as they do their own poor children-at one
time they are familiar and at another so
cross that it is almost unbearable. Ser
wants must be treated with consideration,
but also with dignity.
1T is not necessary to make a corrections
at the moment a mistake has been made.
There are certain times when one can sea
plainly that the cook is not in the mood to
be corrected. Then wait, If it is for two or
three days. Speak then with loving kind
ness and consideration. Love, knowledge.
and common sense are the three impor-
tant things to be cultivated in dealing with
servants. Many people use the knowledge
and common sense, but leave out the love"