The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-01-26

''Million-dollar households do not
suffer from the servant-problem.'
answered Miss Bowles with a CLINT
Of the whiteSt teeth on earth.
Where there is servants hal with
cooks and maids and footmen and
parlor girls and chauffeurs, the help
has plenty of companionship. 1t is
the middle class homes where only
one or two or three servants are
kept that have trouble getting and
keeping them. There are millions
III such homes. Those are the
househo DIS | have my professional
eye upon-the households | want to
equip with my colored girls from the
North and from the South"
Haven't southern colOred girls
the name Of being bit slow and
lot too fond of hard work
That's because of their mistress
Ne" stoutly, defended Miss Eva.
Southern women to a large extent
keep the old traditions of slavery
days. There were so many servants
then that lit service was expected
of each. Some of them grew lazy
way wouldn't they, climate and
everything considered
They need training and liveoing
up, mis- We are prepared to do throus
our branch association in every Sec
ON. | have worked out a system
which seems to answer well. After
fitting girl as suitably as possible
nto situation, we fol ow up her
work, with the cooperation of her
employer.
Her lady finds her for instance,
excellent in parlor work, neat,
quick, obliging and thorough. But
she's weak on making beds, say,
Or in making biscuits! So we ar
"ange for that girl to visit the local
branch and be made expert on the
things he lacks.
SHE is EAGER TO LEARN.
We find that a better way than
to have regular domestic science
classes. 1t is more practical, NOR
time-saving, and allows the girl to
re earning wages while she is be-
ing taught what she doesn't know
Experience shows us the southern
"olored girl is eager to learn and he
efficient. if it is made worth her
while. BY that | mean very large y
he attitude the white woman takes
toward her If this attitude is kind
L.. nj fYinnIlNr on1 N1riti,nt,t nrni1t-
lice regarding tradition or color, the
girls natural sunniness of DISPOSE
ton and willingness to serve come
out and develop.
Experience has taught me also,
smi ed Miss Bowles, that all girls
are the same the world over, nc
matter what the color of their skin
They all crave life and companion
nip, pretty clothes and a chance tC
be happy. The colored girl is even
nOre social than her white sister
She simply must have friends and
God times.
The foreign girls who used tc
have a most a monopoly of domes
tic service, wer more content to
drudge and save drudge and save.
They had no gaiety of nature, nc
marked love of music as the colored
girl has.
But the war has cut off the
ply of these Immigrants. This is the
chance for our native Negro girls to
come into their own. ] think we
owe it to them, and I know they
VII repay our interest"
We were sitting in Secetary Bow
less sunny Office at 500 Lexington
avenue CShe SAYS she picked out an
extra sunny one because some OF
her problems were so "dark'l while
he talked, | was thinking how
rue it is that she had so Otter
o use the word "prejudice" in con
'oction with herself and the tho"
sands Of eager girls she so ably rep
rosents.
College.bred from Cberlin, Ohio
md highly nj telligent, sensitive
'nd alert, eager and capable, ener
eetic and thorough Y equipped, deli
cate featured, yItastefully gowned
music-voiced and gentle-mannere
IVA Bowles is a striking sample
of what the colored girl inherent,
is. What she shall become so
large y up to us-ands our pref.
dice.
Factories and officer are fast los
ing whatever prejudice they ma,
have nurtured against the colore(
girl. In st. Louis, the Armour meat
packing industry has hecently en-
nloyed some 400 of her. Never We
fore have they had any bu. whit
help. One hundred more have gon
into a box factory in the same cit,
and the number is to be increased
In New York city several fibr
| factories have taken them on i
considerable numbers. And the ell
ployment departments of the Y. "
C. A. have difficulty in filling tn
demand for colored stenographer
in Offices and shops. Employers s9
They don't waste time flirting. an
they do their work quite as we'll a
the white girls" Four thousan
colored girls have been placed i
employment in families and els
where by Miss Bow ess departme1
IN the past year.