The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-16
IN new ENGLAND
High Glass School Of HOlSekeep-
Ing Operated.
IN TWO DEPARTMENTS
measure of Success Achieved
scientific Principles Demon
strated College Girls.
New York Evening PostJ

boston the last two years in the direc-
ton of domestic reform and inasmuch
as its aims are not entirely local, it de-
serves some attention from women
outside of New England. Possibly it
is not fair to call the School of House
keeping an experiment, since it has
proved it's right to- existence by taking
steps this spring towards it's work for
a third year.
1t it's entirety the School OF House
keeping embraces two departments
training school for domestics and
training school for housekeepers. Its
aim is to elevate the profession of
housekeeping, from the point of view
| of both the employer and employed
| 1t is a good thing for the average do
| nestle to see that some men and wo-
] men already regard housekeeping
| profession, and homework as a trade,
and that the number of the enlight-
ened is growing larger from year to-
year
1t can be seen at once that there are
advantages in having the two schools
under the same roof. The domestic
branch in this way 10 Il certain extent
affords place of observation for the
employers studying scientific house
keeping. The school occupies two
houses in a pleasant part Of the city,
which, by removing certain partitions,
have been connected and adapted to its
needs. Before the school WAS opened
they were placed I'm the hands of a
woman decorator, SO that all their
decorations and furnishings while eX-
tremely simple, are yet artistic and
suitable. To lessen the general ex-
pense and to give the girls learning
homework something to practice on.
boarders are taken in one of the two
houses, and they constitute the fam
! lily Ten employees at time are re-
/ ceived in training, and are directed by
a skilled house1eeper, and a cook who
/ is a graduate of the Boston Cooking
! School.
The special work for housekeepers
consists of series of lessons and lee
lures. supplemented by a kind of lab
oratory work. The work of the year,
from the first week in November to
the first week in May, is divided into
two terms of twelve weeks each. The
lectures were given by experts, who
discussed such subjects as the build
ing ana equipment of a house, the di-
vision of income and economics Of
buying, and the various aspects of do
nestle service.
The pleasant little lecture room was
usually filled, and an opportunity was
always given after the lecture for dis
cussion and exchange of views. The
lectures were always on Monday
morning, and on the following Thurs
| day came the demonstration or labora-
tory work, when the class would go
from one end to the other of the model
house, making practical study of the
cellar and the yard, or examining the
plumbing, the drainage, and the sys-
tenn of ventilation. One day was spent
in considering the laundry and its uses
and abuses, another on the kitchen,
and it's care and equipment. The store
room and household supplies afforded
another lesson, and there were special
days for dust and its dangers, for in
terror woodwork, its preparation ano
!. preservation, hints about the dining
room and parlor, and for the hygiene
of the bedroom.
so The students were encouraged to di
T a certain amount of home work in in
IN speeding the sanitary condition of th'
~ houses in which they lived, and sug
od gestions were made for extended read
n ing.
During the second term there wa
OF offered class in foods and food chem
istry, including both laboratory exer
cises and practical work in the chem
istry of foods, cooking marketing, an
or the construction of dietaries. \ elias
in homework was also offererd wit
the same practical kind of work to il
- lustrate the fundamental principles {
house sanitation and care of the houst
laundry. etc. Members Of the classe
for employers have been admitted
when they wished to attend them. t
the weekly lessons given to employee
and they have Deen permitted to go
the house, when they wished. 10 Sc
) just how these domestics studying /;
the school do their work.
Naturally the school as whole h
appealed most strongly to women Ii
ing in Boston, who had the leisure
- attend the lectures Some wome
}. however, have come from distan'