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Show NEEDED MISSIONARY WORK. About a million of foreigners will be the quota to land in America this year. A good many of them will be poor women. A great proportion of these will have but a vague idea of what they are going to do in order to live ,and most of these will have no necessary equipment to command com-mand situations. It seems to us that one of the greatest missionary works that could be entered upon woul ' be to establish a great female training school a little outside of New York, to instruct these women to do cooking and housework. The want of women competent to do such work is breaking up the home life of thousands in American Ameri-can cities, and the want of this knowledge is causing hundreds and thousands of young women annually to drift into lives of infamy and shame. Indeed there is room and opportunity for such schools in all our smaller cities. In every one are plenty of poor girls who know nothing of the duties that pertain to domestic work. Family after family that would prefer to live at home is drifting drift-ing to apartment houses because no help can be obtained at home. It is not a question of wages. The wages of women who are cooks and housekeepers house-keepers have been doubled in this city within the past five years. An honest and competent girl at the wages paid now can lay by enough to buy a little business of her own in three years. Higher education is becoming top-heavy in our country; it is being shamefully neglected in the needed fundamental branches. |