New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

course but our pupils are free to use their
knowledge gained through it in whatever
specialized field they choose"
Then he went on to explain that the pupils
first began to go out to individual homes
through the calls on the institute for young
women to do catering for receptions and teas,
dinner parties and other jobs that naturally
took them into this field of work. During
vacations many of the domestic science pu-
pills accumulate bank accounts in this man
ner.
From the outset" he continued, they
we're so successful that out of this grew
demand for their entire time. The pay was
good; the fact that they were from the in
stitute in itself gave them standing; they be-
lieved in the dignity of their highly trained
work as professional houseworkers. In fact,
they saw no reason why they shouldn't do
the work for which they had been trained IN
an individual home the same as anywhere
else. We see the results of enlightenment in
the fact that housekeepers all over the coun-
try are doing their work in a spirit that
would have been impossible decade ago.
"Why, then, is it so remarkable TO find it
reflected at last in the attitude of well paid,
thoroughly efficient young women, who re-
gard their 'hOme-making' for others in ex-
actly the same light as our stenographic girls
do their work as secretaries?"
"But how about housekeepers themselves
taking the bloom off of this altogether admir-
able new attitude toward housework?" I in
terpolated Doesn't friction come about by
your pupils baking against the irksome re-
strictions imposed upon them as servants?
Must they find housekeeper who shares
their trained point of view in order to be
really contented and happy"
Mr.. Shankland smiled. Our experience
has been that when you supply the trained
worker, there is no difficulty in finding house
keepers who will not only share the view we
hold, that their professional skill dignifes
homework, but also their enthusiasm for do
ing that work in the better way. 1t isn't
only the housekeeper who has had one of our
girls who becomes converted, but her neigh
bors as well. They write: Mrs. Blank has
one Of your former pupils. We understand
that you make specific requirements for them.
Send US list and we'll live up to it. We
will do anything to secure that type of ser
vice."
RULES FOR WAGES AND TREATMENT
Sc heavy has been the demand for Andrews
Institute girls from the home making classes
that in meeting them the institute has set
wages and other requirements. The insti-
tute has not yet named specific hours of work,
but it may take up this question in the near
future. The price which the trained begin
ner readily commands is 81 with room and
board.
The rules regarding her treatment are not
so much specific as a general reminder that
she is a self-respecting, well-educated young
woman, who chose to study for professional
homework when she was free to enter dozen
other fields, and that she takes her work seri-
ously.
The Andrews Institute girls do not ask to
be made zone of the family; they expect
merely TO be allowed TO live their own lives
in their own way, as unhampered in their
hours of freedom as they would be in any
other occupation.
"Of course, you stipulate that they are not
to be required TO wear a cap and apron?"