New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
THE SERVANT PROBLEM.
Solution Put az Practice by q Phaid-
delphid CoIored Clergyman.

! colored clergyman of Philadelphia, the Rev.
| i. G. Jordan. has staked his faith upon
| scheme for solving the servant problem For
| fifteen years Nj. Jordan saved money Then
| when, short time ago, his funds had accumu-
lated to a sufficient amount. he took them out of
| bank. bought granite building in West Phila-
| delphia issued great many thousands of Illus
| trated prospectuses. and set up school for ser
| vants-a school to instruct servants in all the
| multitude of things that they should know.
| Cooks. parlor maids, iaundresses buffers foot
| men, ladies' maids, Wallets. nursemaids, srooms'
. cham bermaids, housekeepers. seamstresses -
| these and all sorts of other servants may learn
| at Mr.. Jordan's school their full duties. The
| school has only just started. but already 1t has
| over thirty pupils It's protector therefore, has
| great hopes of it's success. The school is in
| tended primarily for colored persons. but to
/ white persons, should they apply for admission
! would not pc denied its privileges.
| The sessions last from o'clock till g. and all
| day long the scene at the school is busy one.
| There is to be heard a nose--a rafting Of
| Dishes clatter of cooking utensils, scurry Of
| busy feet-and, all, the sound of dcta-
torial and adn1onitory notes.-the voices of the
instructors, standing the pupils, lecturing,
advising and upbraiding.
One room is fitted up bedroom. Here the
business of the chambernaid is taught A girl
fresh from the South, a student, enters
She is appalled, before all the pure splendor of
white lace and linen and china that meets her
eye But the instructor, Miss Belle Haskns.
young woman in black with white cap and
apron, takes her in hand kindly, saying:
DO not be alarmed. I Will teach you al bout
these things. The bed you see before you con-
tains a mattress, bolster, two pillows. two
pillow shams two sheets. two blankets and
counterpane Remove those articles from the
bed, naming them as you do So
The pupil removes and names the articles She
often fails in some of the names-in pillow sham
or counterpane-and if she is fresh from the
South she may fail in ali Of them 1t is her first
duty to learn the names thoroughly.
Then she is taught how to make bed hi
gienicaIly-how long to air the mattress and the
coverings each morning, and how, with broom
handle or a yardstick, to give the bed per
fectly smooth finish
The question of the changing OF the bedclothes
is an important Miss Belle Haskins says
to the pupil
THE frequency of the changes depends in
most households the number of the servants.
Where there only three servants. the
sheets and pillow changed once a
week. the counterpanes once in two weeks
Where there are four five servants the
sheets are changed twice a week and the
counterpanes once week. Where there are
still more servants the bedclothes are changed
more frequently
In that manner the instructor goes on, show
ing the maid how TO clean a bedroom. how to
arrange a bureau, how to wash hair brushes.
how to fold down quilts in fifteen or twenty
artistic designs. and on.
In another room Mr.. Jordan's assistant is Civ
ing TO d rawboned broadshouldered youth a
kind of setting up withdrawing him TO be