Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-12-24
Girl has Glass of About Thirty Society
Matrons of San Francisco and she
Tells Them Much.
EFFICIENT HOUSEHOLD
ENGINEERING HER SYSTEM
Educational Institution to Furnish Ele-
mentary Instruction for Girls Has
Twenty Pupils.
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rrahclscO Is q slip OF girl who has
started out single-handed to solve the
problem of the serving.maid. She is
Mary Rouillet, and she was graduated
from Columbia University in February.
1913. Miss Rouillet intends to create
demand for efficient housework
specialists, and then supply that de.
mand. Her plan, if successful, will
raise the standard of domestic service
to the rank Of such professions as
stenography, nursing or teaching. That
the long hours and social stigma at.
taching to household work, from the
servants standpoint, are what keeps
many girls from making it their means
of living is Miss Rouillet's s theory. By
making the work an honorable profes-
sion she believes it will not only bet
ter, but attract a. better class of gihls.
Before she began supplying specialists
in household work, however, there has
to be a demand for specialists. 1t was
when she realized this that Miss Rou-
illet opened her school for household
mistresses. Pretty, slight and smiling,
and just few months past her own
school days she explains daily to class
of thirty society women the mysteries
OF efficient household engineering. -
The students are taught how to add
up grocery bills, the science of cookery,
the difference between good and unde.
sirable cuts of meat, household book.
keeping-in short, the whole theory of
good housekeeping, The course con.
sists of three lessons weekly for five
months. Mary Rouillet is the whole
faculty for this school for household
mistresses. In conjunction with the
mistresses' school there is also an edu.
cational intuition to furnish element.
ary and advanced instruction for girls
Though this school has only been estab-
lished two months, it already has TWEEN.
ty pupils. They are taught cooking,
serving, sewing, "movement economy"
and scientific sweeping. Mary Rouil.
let is the entire faculty of this school,
too.
Briefly, Miss Rouilet is trying to
push the business Of housekeeping into
its proper place, with other lines of
business, with reference to specializa.
tion and efficiency, She hopes-and
says she will-put the housemaid on a
social and business level with other
business and professional women.
Backing her up in her work is the
Woman s Outdoor league of San Fran.
cisco, with a membership which reads
like the social blue.book of the city.
Mary Rouillot would rather talk dia.
tectics, proteins and efficient engineer.
ing than dancing and weekend parties.
ut is my ambition" she said with
the devout expression Of Musselman
speaking at Mecca, "to visit some day
the Partisan school of the Gordon Bleu.
Their famous chefs teach the prospect
i've housemaid how to cook and what
efficiency means, Yes, | know IL is
big job for one girl, but l am con.
fident Of winning out. 1t keeps me
tremendously busy, but | would rather
do it than anything | know Of "
Across the front Of the school which
occupies an eightroom apartment, are
two large, sunny rooms. A piano,
pianola, magazines and easy chairs
make them cozy lounging club. The
girls are allowed the use Of these rooms
free, Then there are two bedrooms,
spicE, span and efficient, modern
kitchen, combination sowing and din.
ingroom and lastly n laboratory with
eight gaspates and adorned with col
cred diagrams showing food values and
other feawomo looking scientific para.
phcrualia Miss Rouillet is q Philadel
phio girl and new to the west. She
runs hor establishment without help
and knows few people except profcs
sionals. "l hope later" she said "to
have resident girls-experts--so that
when someone needs maid in an
emergency she can call on MS and feel
sure that the right girl will be sent
TO hor"