The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24
Technical Education
for Women

Says William Hard, remembered al
the author OF the much-read ''Woman's
INVASION" now writing in Everybody's
Magazine for August: ut Is among
women who before marriage enjoy
wide educational opportunities. and
after marriage the blessing of partial
leisure, that modern industrial con.
ditions arc having their greateH
influence
To illustrate the truth OF his propo-
siuon. no calls attention to Simmons
College, in Boston, Mass, the first OF
its kind offering after four years
course to send out It's women grad
yates technically trained for specific
degrees at other highsgrade institu-
lions go to Simmons and are taught
how to be social workers in settles
ments, TO be librarians, stenographers
and secretaries. Thus to bachelor Of
art degree the college girl adds that
| for practical work.
| Trade and Technical Schools.
| Heads of big department stores now
think it worth while to send their
| girls to a school of craftsmanship for
department. store training for several
hours every morning, until they finish
their course, paying them full wages
meanwhile. In trade schools other
girls are trained to be milllners, dress
makers, operators OF electric power
machines, workers in paste and glue,
where these are used for candle-
:. shade making. and workers with
brush and pencil in developing designs
for the use OF manufacturers.
| The technical school for women aims
| to teach Its students an understanding
! OF whole trade and to give them o
practical insight into how the world
is run. Thus they are saved the going
| directly and uncomprehendingly from
| en- apprenticeship to theory in books,
to it's working out in the different de-
partments OF industry with which they
are later connected.
Civic Aesthetic and Industrial.
|
meal schools supply for the commune
lty life. which Is In reality only the
enlarged home life, the civic aesthetic
and industrial training which were
formerly absorbed by boys and girls
through eyes and finger tips IN their
early years. because formerly all
about and around them were the basic
processes by which the worlds cloth
Ing and feeding processes went on.
Following out its present trend and
purpose. 1t would seem that the aim
OF the school of the future for the
education of women will be to make
of education as thorough an exponent
OF the methods OF modern industry as
the primitive home was In regard tc
the conditions OF primitive Industry
The founder OF the Boston Trade
School was woman. Florence Mar
shall, who started the work with q
committee OF woman workers to help
her. But what began as a private en-
terprise has become part of the edu-
cational system OF the State, which
Will from now on recognize as a duty
the training OF its women to become
self-supporting. her education as q
whole dividing naturally into three
periods-"g general. vocational and
technical"
appointment Bureau.
4 Specially In relation to college stu
dents an Appointment bureau has been
started by Miss Laura Drake Gill,
former president OF Barnard College.
The object OF this bureau Is the In
vestigatlon Of other occupations than
teaching for women. and the fitting OF
them for work considered desirable
and practical So the Woman's Educa-
tional and Industrial Union has Just
published handbook under the title
OF "Vocations for the Trained Wo-
man." In which all grades OF occupa-
tons are listed and scaled.
The forward movement of the world
will bring about an era Of speciallsm
for women as we'll as for men. only
the woman must Guido the man by
becoming twice a specialist. for all
women must be trained. not only as
factors of the money earning world,
but as adopts in household economics.
It has been decided that education
which does not through general and
technical study give women knowl-
edge OF conditions which will con-
front her as a money-earner, and does
nor fit her to be independent as a
general worker, Is not education. But
to the technique which she applies In
her business or profession must be
: added courses in cooking, sewing
:, chemistry OF diet. the art OF market
Ing and so on, through the whole
range of homo management.
Outcome of Technical Training.
s SO. then. the woman OF to-day In
! her educational future has to look
], forward to her elementary learning In
childhood. her succeeding college
o. Years and then her double specialsm
o What wonder that the age at which
% Women marry has changed from the
i teens to the twenties, when educa.
tional prelimtnaries constantly in.
J. crease in complexity?
TIE PASSER-BY.
IS House Party Diversions.
Is On the table of one of the porche,
ID nave pretty guessing contest tha
q consists In Identifying the scent o.
different flowers. Eight little boxe:
3 each contains a understanding bios
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