Evening star., 1936-07-11
TRAINED FOR HOME
Women Who Learn Household Duties in
W. P. A. Classes May Be Nucleus
of Permanent Public Service.

a familiar, attitude toward the en-
ployer
Heart-to-h heart talks with the teacher
before completing the course are had
on the use of spare time. The pupil is
encouraged to read each day, organize
thoughts and to enjoy music and flow-
erS.
Above all, Miss billiard tries to make
the pupil feel the dignity Of her work
and to be as proud of it as she would
expects the cooperation of the en-
ployer in providing better standards of
labor than have heretofore obtained
in this field, with reasonable hours and
fair remuneration.
A MONG the eight girls in the class
one who listens with the most
rapt attention and is on her toes
every minute Is young mother, whom
life has battered cruelty.
To begin with, her parents died
when she was years old. Then she
was adopted by one family and passed
on to another, and still another. She
mas never known a home that deserved
the name, and when she was still .
mere child she put in long hours
working in a bakery under unhealthy
conditions. At the emotional age OF
II, she married a cripple and now
has two small children who are un-
usually pretty, the one compensating
fact of her life. They are cared for
while she is at school at a nursery
maintained by the Community Chest.
Her husband gets $45 month on a
relief project and on this she must
manage the home With all the cares
of her household, including the cook
ing, cleaning and laundering that
must be done, she never is a minute
late for her class that starts at
O'Clock and ends at $50 in the after
noon, five days week.
At 81 years of age she epitomizes
the residence of human stuff to the
buffeting of fate. Once she has the
coveted certificate of training in her
SIle lOOkO 1Oi Ndl0 IlOpC1u1ly w
obtaining job in domestic service.
Then there is the little mousy type.
who has reached the age limit of 80
years without ever having been en-
ployed outside her own home. She
represents the legions of dutiful
daughters who have obeyed the wishes
of their mothers or some other men,
bers of their families, and have never
ventured out into the world to try
their wings. Then calamity comes.
the family loses a bread-winner, or
what money and property they might
have accumulated, and these daugh-
ters, who have never been permitted
to work, look with terror into a black
future.
Little Miss Mousy in the cooking
class is overcoming her timiSSty and.
with her training completed, she will
face the world well equipped, in q
field where there is always shortage
of competent workers.
JEANS ambition is to be the worlds
best salad maker. She dreams of
salads as a composer dreams Of SYM
phonies. When the writer visited the
class she was toying with the idea Of
a basket with a handle carved out
OF the skin Of an orange and filled
with mouth watering mysteries. Her
masterpieces in mayonnaise must
please the eye as well as the palate.
and her idea of bliss would be to have
job in a restaurant where she
would have nothing else to do but to
create new and tempting salads.
Besides being super-salad special
ist, she shows signs of executive abil-
ity. At least she has appointed her.
self to be Miss billiards. assistant, and
her classmates take her "bossiness"
with surprising good nature. Her or
ders to wash your hands" and 'let
Miss billiard enter a room first, savy?"
are meekly obeyed
1t is easy to see that the teacher,
serene young person with intelli-
gent dark eyes and quiet firmness of
manner, is the most inspiring in
duence that has ever come into Jeans
life. While the teacher was demon
strating to the class how to arrange
q prune and cottage cheese salad she
asked, with tolerant twinkle in her
eye:
DO you do it this way, Jean? Per-
haps you would like to show the
class"
Jean jumped to the opportunity. for
If there is anything she likes better
than making salads it is to tell some
body else how to do them. She
brooked no suggestions or interrupt
tions from the class.
Shut up! I'm talking" she
snapped. you had better take
notes" 1t was the arrogance Of the
supreme artist. Yet there are people
who say that those on relief have no
IN, ,ftioffvo or an,hitioy,