Show I NDIAN GIRLS SOLVES S SIIWANT PROBlLEM Their Success in the Homes i I Has Been Nothing Short I of PhenomenalDemand i Increasing Fast I Riverside Cal April 17 The ser vantgirl question Is solved at last It has not been done by the importation of objectionable Chinese or the scourIng scour-Ing of foreign woods for women who are too uncivilized to be independent and above the kitchen station The solution so-lution of the puzzle that hasbprcmu turely furrowed the brow of the Amci lean housewife made our wives old bCfoie their time and excited the wondering won-dering sympathy of visitors to these shores is found in the Indian school an institution near lifcie l which is l under un-der the control of the Department of the Interir I called leeently lu bee the superintendent superin-tendent of this beneficent Jnstllutlon and asked him for a signed declaration of the oenellls that he had found to accrue from the transformation of the modern Pocahontas into a cook or a scullery maid The superintendent Mr 1 7Iarood Hall consented to address ad-dress the following through your columns col-umns to any doubling ones who Imagine Im-agine lhal the substitution of an Indian In-dian girl for tin pxvreiu kitchen queen would only graale the trouble I have placed great numbers of Indian In-dian girls In families for general work I after they Have attended school a auf llcleiil lime to gel proper training They secure waes ranging front Si per month to 510 according to qualification qualifica-tion I send them out as cooks housemaids house-maids and nurses while they are yet pupils of the school six months of each year The other six months is spent at the school in securing literary as well as industrial baiting After they reach a certain age and grade they take permanent positions I The success of these Indian girls is phenomenal It IH I only In very rare instances I in-stances that a girl makes a failure Then it Is usually on account of not having been III school l long enough to scpuro adequate training The > are bright capable 1 willing and lu > v sunny sun-ny disposition1 1 I The system of placing the girls In families is being rapidly extended The girls drop naturally into the position find vhlle not presuming In the least receive any kindness or attention without with-out allowing It to spoil them Most families exhibit great Interest In them girls show them kindnesses and give them privileges yet the girls do not presume on the contrary they appreciate attention and make better help In COl1IIJUNIClas they arc anxious anx-ious to Rain nil the knowledge possible as well as to please their patron It seems that tho dllllculty of obtaining ob-taining household help childrens nurses etc In America has been overcome over-come The good people of this great Stale especially the southern part realize tho advantages to be gained by taking a kindly and humane interest in their help Hence the Indian girls find gcod homes kind friends and in return give excellent service and results re-sults The system Is gradually being extended and great results me being realized HARWOOD HALL A visit to tho Institution would speed ily convince any one of UK truth of the superintendents htUcnicnls The girls go about their domestic duties with a quiet serious businesslike air that con travis plpnsanlly with the flippant and to use a phrase that has almost become conventional by frequent usage 1 E I z r ii r > 1 a t I r tt4 J t 7 I I I i I I I tt has remained for the United States Government to solve tho vexatious servant girl problem By establishing a school at Riverside Colo for I training Indian girls in home science the Interior department has accomplished I ac-complished wonderful results one of which is indicated above by the gentle manner in which the modern Pocahontas fills the difficult posi j I j trop of nurse girl < i NJ I ro I j 1 to r Jj V 4 > l t il Iti < 1 if Jti t I Jtf i J I I i2r t 1 J Y t > < 4 J 1 J T > i J I f1f < I f S SS < S k u A > I < J t rx J > r I i t Ii v I w L Dj N t a ° all ll 8 i A < iii F L I < t I jt I jiJ t4 j ptm IfJ 1 I 1 1 oj r I 1 It 1 t t 1 s Ono would hardly recognize the picture as that of an Indian Indian girl < Ic But sho is and a graduate of the institution established by the Department De-partment of the Interior at Rive rsicle Colo too Tho training received re-ceived thero has qualified the do scendants of Pocahontas in every de k partment of home science and the American women who have tried them say that the servant girl question is solved at last saucy air of so many of the hired I girls with which American homes are afflicted 1 In t he care of children the girls seem I to be particularly t at home mothering i I mother-ing them In a manner that was quite I delightful lo witness The falling that one who has studied Indian character by standard textbooks and at close I range In the settlements would look for namely that of a want of cleanliness clean-liness was conspicuously absent In the I home The girls both in their personal I per-sonal appearance and in their duties i we scrupulously careful and tidy In answer to my questions they praise the treatment received In the Institution Institu-tion highly and appeared very grateful grate-ful to the system that had made escape es-cape from the low grade of the settlement set-tlement life possible Judging from the appearance and manner of the girls there Is not the slightest fear of a relapse = re-lapse to the old Indian life although all had the typical Indian hair and features and were unmistakably pure i Indians V r Letters are being received by the SlIj perlnlendent from all over the coal < try asking I questions regarding the girls Some housewives make the evr pertinent a little doubtfully at first of taking a girl on trial find her a perfect I Jewel send for another one and tell their neighbors about the new treasure treas-ure with the result that they too send for girls and the outlook In come quence of this spreading of the fancy for Indian help is that the stock will soon run out and cither a fresh source of supply will have to be found or tin help refused until the school fills U i 1 again As the superintendent says The servantgirl question is solved I |