Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-05-04
SOLUTION OF 1.-THE GREAT AMERICAN
PROBLEM"

"In these days Of formal practical
training there are established schools
for nearly every line of work from
designing to plumbing; and it is but
natural that every thoughtful thinker
should declare, Let us at least partly
solve this complex problem CT domes-
tic service by training those who are
to enter upon such work. writes
Gwendolen Stewart in an article on
"Training Schools for Houseworkers"
in the Boston Cooking School Magazine.
"If training has raised the standard
of work and workers in other trades
why should it not in this? In justifi-
cation of this belief, training schools
for those desiring to engage in house
work as a trade have been established
In the United States, England, and on
the continent. The first
class of training schools comprise
those institutions which are estab-
lished and maintained solely for the
primary and ultimate aim of training
young women for household work as
trade. The day schools of this class
are the Housekeeping Schools of Bel
GUM and Vienna; while the boarding
schools are the Schools for Servants
In Switzerland. The second class in
cludes Tee hnical or Industrial Schools,
which conduct domestic department
within which the training of house
workers is feature. The day schools
of this type are conducted in the
Household Service Branch of the
Domestic Department of the German
Industrial Schools for women. Of
this type of boarding school, the Bos-
ton School of Housekeeping was until
this year. Training departments,
conducted by institutions undertak-
ing varied scope of work, form the
third class of training schools for
houseworkers. The Training school
for Domestics, conducted by the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton of Boston, and the Training Glass
of the Clara de Hirsch Home and
Training School for Working Girls,
are both boarding schools of this type.
This includes those homes for young
girls which, while maintained funda
MI ntally as home for the protection
and education of very young girls,
give the training in household work
both IS preparation for future oc-
cupation and as basis of character
building. A day school of this type
is the Wilson Industrial School for
Girls; and boarding school, the
Brooklyn Training School and Home
for Young Girls. Finally, as fifth
C ass, recognition may be given to
those technical schools maintaining a
Domestic Science Department in
which classes are conducted for the
benefit of cooks and mattresses. Pratt
and DR., KEEL Institutes stand foremost
in this work. The Philadelphia
School of Housekeeping may also be
included, though it offers courses for
house empio, ers and employees only.
The Sargent Industrial
School at NJ ,ttewan, N. Y, is estab-
lished primarily for the training of
young girls for domestic service as a
means of livelihood, in order that
they may become high grade workers
and entitled to receive the wages o!
skilled workers. The school is main
tanned within a private home, by
means of which every opportunity is
afford d 'or complete experience in
household affairs. Six pupils are re-
c ived for the one years course.
They are given a thorough training in
such work as would be done in a pri-
vate home, employing from three to
FIVE servants. The family is repre-
sented by three teachers of the school
The work OF each pupil is carefully
supervised, and after strict criticism,
it is graded by a system of marks
These marks are made up into a week
| ly report. At the end of the year, il
the work has been satisfactory, posi-.
tions are secured. With the testimony
of good ervice for a year diploma il
granted. The school also carries or
classes in cookery and sewing for out
| side pupils.o