The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-08
HELP FOR GIRLS TO
Be GOOD WIVES
Institution Founded to Fit Them
For Domestic Cares.
PUPILS TO Be WORKING GIRLS
PhiIanthropic Women of New York
and Pittsburs Organized "Wifehood
Guild" With the Object of Reducing
Number of Unhappy Marriages-To
Establish Home at Huntington, N. Y.

Establish Home at Huntington, N. Y.
Believing that fully 80 per cent of
pie of the working classes are due to
the wife's ignorance of the simplest
duties of domestic life," philanthropic
women of New York city and Pitts
burg are organizing "wifehood
guild in which, just as business is
taught in the Pratt institute, instruc-
ton in the duties of the household will
be given for nominal fee.
In suburban home the guild will
teach cooking, housekeeping and nurs-
ing to a school of 100 young working
girls who will live in the institution
during the six months course. The
fee will merely cover expenses.
Lectures on Physiology and Medicine.
Women doctors will lecture on phys
iology and medicine, so that the stu
dents may have some knowledge of
the cares of motherhood
Headquarters of the guild will be at
Huntington Manor, n. Y. Three acres
of land have been purchased there by
the incorporators. Architects are now
employed in making plans for a per-
manent guild house. George Doan
Russell, formerly professor of corpora
ton law at the Brooklyn Law school
and one of the incorporators said the
other day that house would be rent
ed temporarily at Huntington Manor,
in which headquarters will be opened
in the spring.
women of New York city and Pitts
burg have considered the plan," said
Mr.. Russell. zone of the founders is
Mrs. j. Ellsworth Tappan, the wife Of
a Pittsburg merchant. who is patron
of many Pittsburg philanthropies. An
other is Mrs. j. w. Clark of 142 West
Eighty-second street, New York city.
Both women are prominent socially.
They have interested a number of
their friends in the project and have
already raised the funds TO finance it.
The Wifehood guild will be conducted
on the principle of the Pratt institute,
young people who couldn't otherwise
afford it receiving education for a
nominal fee.
"The organization is the outcome of
a good many years of inquiry and OBJ
serv, on on the part of its promot-
ers." said Mrs. Tappan.
Full Course In Domestic Economy.
thousands of girls upon leaving the
public schools Immediately go to work
in au office or store. These girls get
| false notions and are no help to the
| men they marry independence is a
| good thing, hut 1t sometimes units
girls as good wives and mothers
When shop or office girl marries the
young husband too often finds that his
wife, though pretty, doesn't know the
rudiments of housekeeping. Then chill
dren come. and again the girl has
many things to learn.
when we are ready for work Al
! Huntington Manor we shall receive ap
! plicants who can furnish references
and we will give them residential
course in everything pertaining to do
nestle economy. Our building will ac
commodate hundred pupils at time
Payments may be made at the stu
dents convenience"
| Mr. Russell Is now drawing up arti
Giles of incorporation and will appl,
for state charter after getting thu
| authority of a justice of the suprem'
court.