Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-05-17
EXPERIMENT A FAILURE.
Wiimotte Servant Girls Club Dies in
Infancy.

Chicago Record-Herald Dwellers in
Wilmette suddenly have become tact-
turn regarding the recent effort OF the
local housewives to establish in that
Suburb a social, musical and literary
organization. having for its object the
entertainment and culture Of the SER
want girl.
Those who are outside the breast
works say the affair was fatuous in
every phase. Those who are thus be-
rated for their responsibility in the
matter declare themselves to be mis-
represented and misunderstood. The
pertinent commentary of the neutral
faction Is that the Society OF Servant
Girls failed ANONYMOUSLY as a per-
manenCy, leaving bChand 1t a trail of
quarTels, Indignation and CYCLES, and
rendering tie engagement OF girls for
household service in Wilmette more diff
flcul than ever before.
An address on the Outlines of So
Geology delivered the Wilmette Wom-
ans club by Professor Graham Taylor,
was the direct inspiration of the idea
hat Il club Of working girls, especially
those whose chief employment was con-
fined to kitchens, would be an excellent
medium for the promotion of greater
harmony between mistress and of
maid; giving the latter tangible evil
dence that her happiness was tenderly
considered by those in authority, and
creating an interest in the suburban
environment beyond the mere bond Of
wages.
Late in February Mrs. John e. Davis,
Mrs. /. r.. Adkins. Mrs. James Pope ana
Mrs. +. II. Adkins gave the scheme u
definite impetus by calling together the
girls employed by themselves and their
friends. The maids were told what was
J t, la dom, for than a nd Capn1a1 nlna Sod
at the prospect. Two of their own
number, Miss Violet SHUTTLE and Miss
Hulda Swanson, were elected president
and secretary respectively of the new
club. Further meetings were held on
three successive Thursday afternoons
at the residences of their sponsors. At
these gatherings the young women
themselves arranged the program for
their amusement, musical or literary,
as the case might be, n appeared
thoroughly contented. Then for some
mysterious reason the meetings were
abruptly discontinued, and soon after
ward the ladies Of Wilmette We're once
more b~eSieging the employment
agencies of Chicago.
The hidden springs behind the defeat
Of this ph~iIanthropic project were di-
vulged yesterday for the first time to q
Record Herald representative by a
prominent member of the Wilmette
Woman's club.
well, we started q club for the girls,
as you know" said she. 1--WE made q
mistake at the outset, however, by pub
licly saying among other things that
we earnestly desired to afford the girls
opportunities for quiet, pleasant even
ings under pure influences. We also
talked too much for the press.
The girls didn't like the imputation
that they needed our guardianship 10
insure choice OF pure influences. They
relished still less the notoriety forced
upon them by the newspapers. But
most OF all, / think, they resented the
snobbish attitude taken by part of the
t~ownspeople. So, without making any
fuss, they resigned their positions, al
most in a body, and ven away.
THAT ended the club, OF course. And
-and-well, we are still answering our
own door bells"