The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-11
mr.. SPOOvER
WASS ). /: \ /:
Minister Scorns Project for
Teaching Girls to Do Do
nestle Work. 86f55
svAe A y Of 4 4. DREAMER RI !: r
Declares It Wholly Impractic-
vAeARY Of A DREAMER L: 4 ! E !
Declares It Wholly 1rlpractic-
able Speaks 81 Wilcs
sS.B5 Of Telnpter.

Rev. George II. spooner, pastor Of tho
Broad Street Methodist Church caused
stir In his congregation Sunday morn
Ing by certain statements which were
Thought by many present to be aiined
at the Domestic School for Young 'No-
| men, Just founded by Rev George II.
Wiley, fellow minister. @
Rev. Mr. spooner said in part:
."rhe continued influx Of emgrants to
our shores has already lowered our
Ideals Of the South. Tho Anglican idea
OF ale and the Freutonic idea Of beer may
| bring lis subway taverns and archbish-
ops stunning with negroes and dreamers
and Missionaries may tell us why Virginia
girls. because poor, shall be taught to
be servants, but trust the day will
never come when girls Of pure character
and honorable parentage will accept In
Invitations to come away from their corn-
| try homes. poorly furnished though they
may be. and be llurdled together in the Z
stun districts Of the city to be degraded
|to8thc level OF former slaves. The place
| for the training OF Southern girls for
any service In family is in the home
of Christian women. I cling to the Jchiv-l
| airy Of our fathers, who counted the
Southern woman, rich or poor as o.
queen, and neither looked upon Ter; pow
crty ms a crime nor her honest work as
disgrace. n God bless the young women
who make their own living In our midst.
who brighten our streets and throng our
sanctuaries! r. 35ss VI s
Away With the Folly !" III
''But away with the dream OF folly
that seeks to put Virginia girls on the
plane OF English barmaids or South
Tern negroes 8 AS 4 63
Mr.. spooner said that he was discuss
ing tho qucs ton OF heritages and among
others. he stated that we lay claim to-
1.-THE spirit OF ctivalry, honor and rev.
erence for Southern women that charac-3
;terized our fathers In the dark days be-
fore ,e1. He said: II give place to no man
in honoring and rejoicing with the young
woman who makes her own honest living
and leroically struggles to help someone
| who may be dependent on her, but II
will never Join hands 18th those VIII seek
! to lower her standard or degrade hersin
the eyes Of the world.
Mr.. spooner said that he was not IL
tempting any solution Of the servant
question, but that as q man. as a South 4
ferner and as one who had the highest
opinion OF the Southern women, he stood
for those ideals OF Southern womanhood
which characterized the flower OF South
ern chivalry in the days before the va -
i He said that domestic service was degrad-E
Ling and menical that II lowered AZ the.
standard Of womanhood and placed our
i Sou thcrn girls on the plane OF the. old =
4 time negro slaves. yg II ssts d III
In I Temptations Way. 5
He continued further, that bringing girls
| to Richmond and placing them: in the.
slum districts together. would lay them
open to all the varied temptat ions and
| worldly allurments that best the paths
Eo1 those who unsophisticated and mex
perienced entered upon the ways OF city
life. n e 8 II 5;.
He said, too that there was q great dif-
fere:.ce between the Northern and Sou l,;t
erns servant conditions He said that IN
the North the white servant we're ORA Wn.
ifrom the foreign emigrants.. WHO! were
brought up in mental circu ms ancesi and Y
! We're used to the life Of a domestl c but IN
|Ithe South we were drawing on our. own q
women for this service which, to say (. q
l!least, Is not looked upon as q rung in the
social ladder, and that 1t was a slam on
Tia Southern ohivalry thai would stand
nv and see the dependent sex forced TO
1 take positions Of indlgnity and degraded
service. 8
! plan recently instituted in the interests !,
| OF the school OF domestic science as y g
i iyaEarys OF a dreamer a. plan that would
NOT see fulfillment and one that had in i
tho possibility OF more harm than good
i n this opinion Mr.. spooner said that
he wns upheld by many Of his fe elie'''
ministers. 3sa Re l55s u. III L 4, j
Mr.. Wiley's Rcjoinder.
In reply, Rev. Mr.. Wiley said that q q y
was a mistake to believe that MS schoo ,
building at No. 212 North Nineteenth
street, il in the slums. Many splendid
people and Methodists live around the
.l,huding, and Trinity Church. Which Mr.:
i snooner was pastor OF for a number u
4 Years is In that neighborhood..
Mr. Wiley believes that there are hun I,
dreds OF poor white girls VINO inlInl.siS
prefer homes with refined and Christian! III
families 10 the factory. hut who now
know nothing OF household work NOR, - = be-,
i lieyes, moreover, that there Is far less
i chance Of moral slips in the work he pro-
noses to train young women for a NJ ina 7
tie temptations for factory Girls are are
Imany. VI iil 55 @ ~, 4