Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-01

! house, nrst Tor women who wanted &c
become trained workers in other pro.
tessions and occupations than those
which had boon commonly entered
| hitherto. and by which they could earn
livelihood that was not blighting to
ambition and annihilating to all hope
Of advancement; and. secondly. to
those who needed the services OF wo-
men who were 80 trained. There was
no intention OF making the Virginia
Bureau OF Vacations an employment
| agency. 1t is not an employment,
tipn whose constant duty is to study
all available vocations for women and
to acquire all needed information as
20 those which are most desirable for
them to enter. What women are doing
In other parts OF the world Is learned
and recorded; correspondence. entered
into with those who have achieved suo-
cess in their particular calling, tho
cataloging of institutions which offer
vocational training Of the higher sorts
are carefully studied and special pub
locations read with view to discov-
ering what they offer along the lines
sought: also where training for GER
tain vacations can be obtained. and at
what cost of time and money.
In addition to this, the bureau has
been finding out the resources OF the
State in meeting the needs Of voca-
tional training for educated women,
and. whenever possible, in such in
stances as the Art Club OF Richmond,
1t most readily co.operates in all ef-
forts 10 provide advanced instruction
in the lines undertaken.
AS an outgrowth of its directive sug-
gestion and presentation OF need the
school of social economy. to be opened
this fall. will fill an immediate demand.
and from the establishment OF this
school much good will eventually come.
The secretariaa school TO be conducted
by the Smithdeal Business College is
another product of the bureaus rean-
cation OF its need In the State, and the
opportunities that 1t will open to the
women who will take the instruction
offered is hardly yet Grasped by them.
These are but the beginnings or
many possibilities that the Virginia
Bureau of Vacations for Women has in
mind. and when in addition to the pur-
suits and professions now open to w-o-
men the latter can avail themselves of
the chance OF becoming trained work
crs in such other occupations as the
designing OF furniture, OF clothing. of
wall paper and carpets; OF weaving and
book binding, Of metal work and wood
carving. OF advertising and illustrating.
OF interior decorating and photography,
OF the keeping of book shops and flor-
lists shops and children's shops; of
gardening and dairying and agricul-
tural work; of library work and in
stitutional supervislon-when these
things come to pass-some OF tho
dreams of the bureau shall have in
deed come true.
Richmond is fortunate to have at the
head of this bureau woman whose
reputation is national in schola site
work and intellectual standing, and
whose brilliant achievements in the
literary world give her high rank
among American writer's Freely and
mind. her sympathetic understa nding
she hopes to accomplish for the wo-
men of her State, and for the entire
South. in helping them realize first the
ter to afford them opportunities for
the development OF their many powers
as yet unframed and unutilized. Miss
Hatchcr's work demands the fullest ap-
probation and recognition, and all the
more generously should it be given
when 1t is realized that her services
are bestowed without other remunera-
ton than the reward OF knowing that
TO her native State and city she is shar-
ing Of the rich abundance of her abiI-
ity to the furtherance of larger and
wider opportunities TO the cduca ted
young women of her day for new lines
OF effort in new fields of endeavor.
Surely the work undertaken will be up
held by the public when the public un-
dcrStands