The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-25

and developing many fine and admirable
characters. II freesOm all restraint has
been removed. and the young geenratiOn
has grown W lacking entirely the train
ing and discipline general among their
people when ever STAKEHOLDER had an in
duStrial school for negro youth In his es-
Enlistment. Such training as was then
given in families Is wal!-nigh impossible
now, as the instructor has no authority
over the pupils The Hampton institute,
and to a much smaller but still enCOuraS-
ing extent, the Manassas Colored Indus
trial School. and other institutions of the
same kind within our borders. are yearly
turning out students skilled in domestic
science
''As Hampton and the lesser industrial
schools, though doing grand work which
viii count for generations to come, can
not possibly supply the demand for do
nestle help throughout the State, l vent
urs to suggest plan which might be
deemed Jtcpiau, but seems to me the on
" practical solution Of our troubles
This is the opening Of free schools in
every community for the training OF girls
and boys in the essentially domestic aVO-
cations
Glasses under this system should be
taught regularly IN cooking and all
branches of hoaseworlI a competent
teacher could be obtained for $50 per
month with board. The number OF teach
ers must depend upon the needs OF the
school IN many communities the public
school buildings could be utilized as is
now done II the city OF norfolk W thin
a radius O.. few miles on the Virginia
peninsula. eighteen schools for the teach
ing Of household arts have been estab-
ished within five years. and are in sue
cessful operation under the supervision Of
Miss Breed, most of the teachers being
graduates Of the Hampton Institute
a kitchen supplied with all the mod
cTn utensils for the culinary department
can be fitted up for $50 The provisions
needed for the cooking classes can be puT-
chased for about the same amount per
month Tie articles cooked can be sold
usually, If moderate prices are asked, and
what IS left over it IS well to give the
poorer pupils to take home with them as
object lessons Tor their families. CeTtifi-
Gates Of standing in the classes should
the whole course Of training IS successful
" taken.
The influence of such a system OF in
StructiOn properly conducted must soon
be impressed upon the whole class for
whose uplifting II is designed The con-
slant sight OF tidy. well-mannered, order
" young colored people going regularly
to their tasks, bearing away with them
the benefits they have acquired, and put
ting them in practice III their humble
homes. and in the families of their en-
plOyeTs. would surely raise the standard
of all in domestic employment. y whole
some ambition would take the place Of in
difference the prospect of better wages
for satisfactory service would stimulate
the most faEgard to efforts in the direC-
ton of efficiency
In time we might hope that the lower
class OF coloTed people, nov a most an
moving and unreliable dependence for do
raestic service. would be abolished in the
only way the lower classes can ever be
abolished. by raising them in deccncy, viz
tue, honesty, and self-respect-