Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-03-22

of wealthy and very public spirited
which may in time work a great
;hange in domestic life. 1t is train
ing school for domestic service, where
young women take thorough course
in household work, not merely in cook
cry and care of rooms, but in the best
part of home service, conduct, deport-
ment and general bearing.
1t is pleasant to hear that the gradu-
ates of this school are in eager demand
They receive high wages on account
OF their superiority as house workers
and their excellent department., and
for these reasons they are treated with
exceedingly gratifying consideration
by their employers.
1t is possible that training may do
for house workers what it haS'done for
nurses. 1T has established the eleva-
tion of nurses occupation to such a
plane that any woman may be nurse
without loss of position or self-respect.
1t is not surprising that many girls
who have worked in shops, rather than
engage in domestic service under old
conditions, are awaiting themselves of
the opportunity which this useful
school affords to become Skilful house
workers, and are rejoicing in the i'm
provement which the change brings
in their condition.
| think this is the reason we have
so much inefficient help at the pres
ent time. Our American girls of
ambition and brains stand in too much
fear of social oStraciSm to engage in
homework, however much they may
prefer it to the crowded school-room
or Sitting Office.
The craze has reached such an
extent that many girls consider it not
quite proper for them to do house
work in their o,cn homes; their
preci"'.a Lime cannot be so wasted.
Mother must hire someone to help
her while they tit themselves for
something better.
If they are blessed with fair
amount of brains they may teach
school or music, or be typewriters in
some office. But if they cannot do
this they will work in dress making
or milliner shop, or clerk in store
for wages which the average domestic
would scorn; anything but housework,
until their position in the family can
best be expressed by the lines of the
old song;
oh Mother 1t makes me so nervous,
To hear your footstep az my door;
Call. ma when hraalfast ie raod,,
But please do not call me before,
While searching for help during the
past summer, met a friend who con-
soled me for my many disappoint-
ments with the following remarks,
which I was forced to admit were in
some cases all too true. He said; "It
is just good enough for women to
have to do their own work. No one
is to blame but themselves. When
they learn to treat their help as if
they belonged to their own race, they
won't have SO much trouble to get
them. DO you suppose any girl of
sense is going to follow an occupation
where she must have her fellow sent
round to the kitchen door,"
l felt that they were plain facts;
plainly expressed, but well worth con-
sidering, and only unjust in that the
Innocent must suffer with the guilty.
The dread of homework has become
SO common that many who treat their
help with due consideration can find
no one in want of a place.
noticed in the papers during the
holiday season the names of many
who had returned from our UNIVERSE
Ties, from the State Normal school
and some from other states, but could
not find the name of one young lady
IN Howard county who was taking a
course at Ames.
1t seems we are willing to teach
them everything but that upon which
the happiness and comfort of all must
depend: good management in the
home. And | further believe there is
something about this very training
which would help to do away with the
triVolty OF character so prevalent at
the present time.
think it is a great argument in
favor of this when we are told that a
woman Of such strong and noble
| character as the late, lamented Queen
Victoria was in her youth required to
help with all domestic duties and do
the plain sewing. And one historian
Tells us that her love of the old do
nestle duties was so great that when
the cares of state were most perplex-
ing She has been known to turn to her
spinning wheel as means of rest.
! L would ask the mothers who
imagine that their wealth or position
debars their daughters from taking
this course: Do you consider the wife
OF our respected President any less
capable Of doing the honors of the
| White House because she understands
every detail of home management?
| Domestic economy occupies the 20
sition to-day held by agriculture few
years ago. 1t may be jeered at, but
sooner or later it will assume its
proper place
L believe if our daughters were
taught to properly manage their
homes they would derive more benefit
from the other parts of their educa.
ton,