New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

a servant in one household for years, for as
soon as a lady tells me Mary is a good cook,
but she doesn't keep the bathroom clean or
John is a good butler, but he doesn't know
how to run the furnace economically I send
for Mary and John and put them through
course OF sprouts and they hold their jobs"
The house in Fiftieth Street is completely
furnished and equipped for practical work.
There are bedrooms, bathrooms and linen
closets on the upper floors; reception hail,
dining room and drawing room on the first
floor, and kitchen fitted with all the latest
conveniences in the basement This kitchen
is Mrs. Juens particular hobby, and she
sees great possibilities for its future useful
ness. Here cooks are to be taught to make
any particular dishes which may have been
bugbears to them new recipes which keep
their cooking up-to-date, or various methods
of Disgusting the "left-overs" and making
them palatable. Mrs. Julien has plan also
for cooks who are temporarily out Of employ
ment. She proposes to take orders for home
made jams, jeles, mayonnaise mincemeat,
plum puddings and the like, which are to be
made by the unemployed, who will share in
the profits of the sale.
The present quarters are to be used exclu-
sively as training school, but a little later
Mrs. Julien hopes to be able to take a house
in less expensive district, which can be used
as clubhouse, with sleeping rooms for those
out of employment with "beau parors' and
club dining and reading rooms on much the
same plan as the clubhouses for nurses Mrs.
Julien feels that those employed in domestic
service have far too little social life, and she
realizes that this social life is even more
necessary to people engaged in the usually
monotonous round of housework than it is for
those whose occupation brings them in touch
with the world outside Our domestic workers
must have something to think about, something
to look forward to, outside of the four walls of
their Kitchens else even those Of the most
cheerful disposition become morbid Cor even
worse) from the very monotony of the life
that they lead 1t is d we'll known fact that
our insane hospitals harbor an appalling num-
Der of patients from the ranks of the domestic
workers.
And all this only proves that there is
crying need for another Of Mrs. Julien's pet
schemes, social club for domestic workers.
This club has already been formed and holds
its fortnightly meetings in the big dining
in Fifteth Street 1t is called the
Social Harmony Club, and it is composed of
both men and women who follow the vocation
Of domestic service. It's bi-weeky meetings
are presided. over by Anselle Walker,
retired business man of Mount Vernon, who
acts its president, and who, like Mrs.
Julien, has firm belief in its usefulness and
all sorts Of projects for its development, the
most important Of which is a beneficiary fund
for the sick and needy.
The room is filled to overhowing on club
nights. There is always entertainment
given by outside talent, followed by general
dancing. Oftentmes the spirit moves some
of the club members to do STUNT and these
are often quite amusing as those given by
professionals. On the evening on which I was
a privileged guest the portion of the enter
tainment contributed by "home talent"
extremely interesting. An Irish footman told
really funny Irish stories; an English butler
sang cockney songs in manner of which