The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Of Trustees Mrs. Whitfield, DR.. w. G.
Parks, Mr.. Roscoe c. Bruce, DR.. l..
q: JqrdaAiaad Others. !; -.
Miss Burroughs, the president and
founder of the National Training
SCHOOL for Women and Girls is in
many respects a most remarkable
character. and is the most advanced
representative Of the educated and
progressive Negro. With reference
to the work she is attempting to do
'roGghS SAID; ~ : ~ S''' ~ ~.
Some one has said that we are
laying too much stress upon the i'm
portance Of vocational training for
women. WhyemGt: hslp the,swomen
who work at servico? They are the
best friends the churches have. They
give tnor49 ann atten d Services better
han anYRtHef% class :cf iaborers.
We aPe Qbnyinred that any system CT
educaUon Tor. women that does not
include domestic and professional
training Is faulty and INADEQUATE.
Those who have carefully Investigate
OO@NA~'AN'I 1hu nave uCdIu the
complaints and charges against the
working force in thousands of homes
throughout this. country, realize
That school that will prepare Negro
women to give satisfactory service
as 'domestics is essential. Not only
IS the school designed to help people
who hire servants, but will train wo-
men to, become home-makers for
themselves. The Negro family is
suffering as much from bad cooking
and bad housekeeping as the white
FAMILY that has a bill Of complaint
against the women who are hired to
do the work
There is entirely too much preiu-
dice Within' the race against honest
labor Two-thirds Of the Negro wo-
men who earn their living work at
service. They need training and need
| II badly. There is no school making
a specially Of fitting them to do their
work efficiently. The industrial
schools now operated are not meet
Ing the demands. The girls who at
tend the industrial schools take do
nestle science as a side issue, the
training school at Washington will
make vocational training one of
the main planks in it's educational
platform, and not an after-thought or
diversion from regular study. Wo-
men and girls will come for the def
mite purpose Of preparing themselves
to take positions as cooks. laundress-
r-f a lc
nurses, Housekeeping, dress-makers,
stehographers, bookIkeepers and
clerks, and will be able. to command
respect and good living because Of
| their fitness. Their work will not, be
a drudgery to them.
We might as we'll learn this wear
as next; that it is no disgrace to be
well trained servant, but it is rather
shame and crime to he a make
shltt. No carpenter considers himself
dlsgraced because he is required to
learn his trade before he attempts to
oulld house. No man who wants to
practice medicine sCorns tho idea If
taking four years course in q med
lcan school. No woman, who wants
TO make dresses, thinks it an eternal
Disgrace @tsssaprebsns<M6kseJf for her
work. Then why should woman
VINO feels it her calling to wash and
lron' or keep house, or cook, turn up
ner nose when someone tells her to-
go to training school and learn how
to do her work well? We may pan.
der to the pretudices Of the ignorant,
we may try to please those, who do
mot belong to the servant class, and
VINO therefore scorn the idea of train