The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-26
WOMEN ACTIVE
The Second District Federation
Of Clubs in Session.
Commend Governor HOch's Pol
icy on Prohibition.
SERVANTS DISCUSSED.
Mrs. Noble Prentis Says There
Are No Servant Girls.
Mrs. Charles Scott Against the
Chinese Cook.
SERVANTS DISCUSSED

Kansas City, Kan, Oct. 26.-The
Second Kansas District Federation of
Women's clubs, in session here. adopt
ed a resolution commencing Governor
Hoch's policy of law enforcement. The
resolution was read to the meeting by
Miss Halle Willard of Garrett. chair
man of the committee. It follows:
Resolved. That we, the members
of the federated clubs of the Second
district of Kansas, tender to Governor
E. W. Hoch our heartfelt gratitude for
his vigorous policy of law enforce
ment in our beloved state. and pledge
him our loyal support in his efforts to
cleanse our state of joints, gambling
and corrupt politicians"
The women in the meeting applaud
ed the reading of the resolution and it
was adopted without a dissenting vote.
There was no discussion OF the ques-
ton in the meeting.
The convention adjourned last even
ing. The next annual convention will
be held at Paola.
The Servant Girl Question.
Domestic economies, involving sug-
gestions for the solution of the servant
girl problem and also the question OF
educating the young women to compete
with men in the business world, en-
sion of the convention. Mrs Jeanette
Scott Benton of Fort Scott presided al
the session and more than twenty
women took part in the discussions.
Mrs. J. P. Good of Ottawa started of
the programme with a paper on ''Some
Suggestive Solutions of the Domestic
Science Problem" Mrs. Good launch
ed into the servant girl question with
out preliminaries, and handled it from
a practical standpoint She contendec
that the lack of system in the manage
ment of the domestic service, in tbs
home had more to do with the scarcity
of domestic help than any one thing
Her sympatllies were with the servant
girl.
PAY your help properly" she said
"pay your debts for labor, for it is well
earned. Teach your boys and girls the
true dignity of labor. Why should a
faithful girl employed in the household
be stigTnatized as a servant in this
country, as in the old world. Let it be
something less suggestive of bondage
Domestic science should be considered
in the light of science. It should be
taught in the schools by people just as
competent as those who are employed
to teach the deaG languages Business
men have use for the Golden Rule IN
the management Of their help in stores
and offices. Why should not the same
apply to the homer"
t'Some women can't train their girls,
said Mrs. Essex of Ottawa, the first wo-
man to rise to discuss the paper. Il
think we are making too much of bug
bear of this question. We treat our help
better in the country than you do in
the cities
Mrs. Essex was told by the presiding
officer that the question under discus
sion ought to be what makes it difficult
to secure domestic help.
Help Is Scarce.
1.-THE question is to find the servant
girls" said Mrs Noble Prentis. 'There
are no servant girls. If we admitted
| Chinese as freely as we admit dagoes
we would have plenty of servants. There
is some hope that domestic science edu-
cation win help the situation, but hun
dreds are breaking uD their homes tc
live in boarding houses. It is the pros
perity OF our state that is making il
difficult to get girls. I think we should