The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-19

TN this strait the following plan
suggests itself. In the Eroups OF insti-s
83t,lttons concerned with the care OF infants
! ond young children In babies and chill
! dren.s hospitals, and IN institutions Civ
ing training in kindergarten and primary
school teaching, let normal courses be
established which will aim at making
available as soon MS possible. The vol
S,nteer service OF their students Arrange
& ncnt should DO made between the normal
institutions and institutions needing pupil
assistants. These normal courses are not.
i to train professional women who look
forward to a lifetime of nursing or teach
ing.-but to train and ma Ike bio for
ssimmediatc service. women who 4 are in
most cases going TO give only q short
period Of their lives to he systematic
Il pursuit OF the work and who are not am-.
& bilious for pecunlary reasons for pro-
motion. This work would continue until
the girl married, normally for a period
y o. from five to eight years.
Tho details OF this plan would depend
ul.on local conditions. In New y ork city,
for example, Teachers College might of
gartenB course, and tho Babies Hospital,
lWl,icll.already has a we'll developed course
N for. the training ofsnursery maids, might
srlnn n course fitting non-wage eearners.
Il to become useful assistants In GONE Of
\ the New York day nurseries. hi u 81
n 5 ~ From such beginnings as arc sug-
4 gcsied for various workers. might we
not hope to see Rat some distant datefdays
nurseries, kndcrgartens and roof-play
gardens browning the tops Of our tene-S
3ments, he nurses and Undergraduates
forming partly paid and partly yolun-s
ter staff, All educational militia, SO to
IA H. 1t<r
ofSeach 5peig hborhood.' 2, & III .,s
Il C'rrttjess has collected with Mrs Par
sons's article, the opinions of a num-
y bor nf leadersrin prominent women's orr
8ganizatlons Mrs, Celia Parker Nyooley.i
president of the Frederick Doug
lnss Center OF "a Chicago says: 1.-THE
problem of the rich young, woman who
need not work, who often Is accused Of
taking n needy sisters place ifs she tries
toS,rnrk and who must overcome a long
lfltst&of homo and social prejudlces before
8shs is allowed to work--this lis an inl-S
S9portnnt problem, Perhaps marriage need
not pc anal powerful factor5in woman's
destiny and career more than In mans.
Time alone can tell and we are concerned
WITH the meantime. If where the wage
earring motive Ia absent another, SPRING
Inc from altrusuc sentiment and the
wish to be helpful, car be applied In Its
place. the result Will be q gain both to.
the work and tho work err" n
Cynthia Westover Ale len, sident-gell-
eral Of the International Sunshine
Society has another proposal, The girl
OUT Of school or college she would send
& to the dressmaker for five hours every
week day for two years, mot to earn
money, hut tol learn to / sew cut and fit
Z as well as nybody on earth can, to learn
Ia
terials. Let her earn merely the right
10 he SO educated by making herself
useful ana doing what che Ia told to dot
\ no thishdaily task Mrs lden would add
{. at least two hours Of Italian or French
or German or music, placing novels on
tilely In the list 0f recrca I Ions. At the
end of,the two Years dressmakng course
she would put her a t = work In learning
millinery ana then stef ograpEy, and then