The evening world., 1911-02-03

shools for Servants.
"TAsrsre so many young. practical
women eding means OF support. one
wonderShy. instead OF overstocking
s%tenograers' places, rushing into
print icheap periodicals or bearing
The conement OF shops, they do not
3ns !~tutechoo,s for training domestic
ser'snti reads the editorial ~
fniElt / begun in a small way at first
by goin out at a fair salary. say ~
q reei Dust what a trained nurse
&c; 10 expert service), looking Into
thesl.utiou and training the servants
On he place. A side issue might be
tht OF advising the mistress how 10
Seaing with her servants. II there
IS tpr manner anything overoearing
o. icIaslderate. Il SHOULD be politely
pohd out TO her. There should be
rrisd regulations as 10 the amount or
we to be demanded from servants,
tAeumber OF hours daily when they
s.oi be on duty. and a graduated
sac Of wages for different; classes OF
sernts. Upon this beginning there
mig be Instituted regular training
sshS Cor servants. Just as there are
morn schools for teachers and train
~inx,apcls for nurses"
Fountain Of knowledge.
Amazing read this editorial I deter
mlneo obtain expert opinion upon the
practbility OF its suggestion. Now.
on z. Thirty-nfth street Miss Eliza
beth chel wylle and Mrs. Brown con.
duct Forum of Inquiry, an institu-
ton ich. according TO Its manage
and pyiate manager, stands ready 70
assist vsstigators, cluowomen. teach
ers. s,ents and visitors in New YORK
with cert opinions on social service,
lIterar.esearch. household arts, home
and in,itual culture, dietetics, hlstori,
and mem New York. art and mus.
and thrama. Where better could
go, thefor any information than TO
Miss We and Mrs. Brown?
"whato you tank OF the idea ~
sending Dung women into private
homes teach servants their dutics?'
] asked ,se ladies.
II thinhe idea Is quite Impractical
Miss w. replied. 1T would fan for
several lsons. First, young women
who havbeen trained TO become s'"-
nographe or to work IN shops. would
not theuiyes be competent to ;oach
domestic ,rvants their duties. Taese
girls. as class, are rot particularly
clever akcepins their own homes.
without ting TO run the home of some
body else
Une a Big Disadvantage.
Second even were they competent
they wori bc laboring under tremen-
dous dlsvantages. II would Ne a
very diff t thiiIy for an utter strange
"a walk o somebody's house and at
tempt TO lust the domestic machinery.
The per, most accustomed 10 tho
mechanis Is lcst qualified 20 tinker
with IT,. stly, / doubt II any woman,
no matteloW bad a housekceper she
herself NIT he, would permit a strange
woman tcome In and tell her her
duties"
This las ithcul,y which Miss Wylie
named hsdccurred to me. 1t scarcelE
seemed creole that one would be will
ing to pay outsider TO tel n ones
faults wheihere is always ones fam
fly,
.Ir any,ase,' interrolated Mrs
RroWn, Its not the servants who
need .ralnii The sooner We wake up
10 this ia thc better. We need 70
teach the " York conan to regard
her servants human beings like her
self. WhyIo YOU know there arc
comparativofcU homes in New York
where a mais permitted to have her
sweetheart { upon her?
Must ! Her Young Man
What is ara to do II she is engaged
10 he marie She will see thc young
man in the Sc; SO there is nothing
left for her her Thursday or Sum
day out but walk the streets or e
ct in the parRith her sweetheart, \
mistress shousee TO II that her maid
has some pla where she can occa-
sionally enterh a friend"
"Blt some , York apartments are
rather small, suggested.
Then the nress should allow the
maid to have hsallers in the kitchen"
replied Mrs. Bin concisefy.
ION the 9th hand, l believe we
should remembour diversions do not
necessarily intel our servants Miss
Wylie remarkably think 1t is a great
mistake TO fee amusements on
servants. 1t is i',ur place to Judge
IL. a.a.