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Show DOMESTIC SERVICE COORSES PLANNED Trained Home-Maker Is to Have an Eight Hour Day and Standard Stand-ard Minimum Wage. Courses for trnlnlng home assistants, assist-ants, who will go Into the home by the da.. hour or week and work ou a schedule of hours and fixed wages, have been Inaugurated by the Y'oung Women's Christian Association as a means for meeting the problem of domestic do-mestic service The object of this eoiirsv, now being tried out In New York City, Is to place domestic service on the same dignified basis as clerical work, trnlned nursing or other professions open to women. The home assistant will work eight hours a day for a salary of $15 a week. She will not live In the home of her ; employer or take her meals there. She will have nn hour for luncheon, when she can go to a restaurant or eat a lunch which she has brought with her Just as she would were she employed In a factory. The employer will not address the home worker by her first name. She will be Mls Smith or Mrs. BroWB, as the case may be. Applicants for the course are carefully care-fully selected, and reglst rant) are appearing ap-pearing In large numbers. With the same independence, as to recreation hours, ptncM of eating and living as the factory girl, house-work has a greater appeal, as being a less monotonous monoto-nous and more Interesting work to the a vera (re woman, The course Is a thorough one In plain cooking, waiting on tahle and door, chamber work, plain sewing, care of children, making of menus and the washing and Ironing of light thing. Heavy work Is to be done by outside workers. On graduation the student receives a certificate which pfOTM her qualification as a dependahle home worker capable of attending to all ordinary ordi-nary duties In a home. The Y'oung Women's Christian Association Asso-ciation has been Interested in the problem prob-lem of domestic service both from the standpoint of the employee and from that of the employer for some vears. The first commission on Household Knqiloymeiit nutde its report at the llflh national convention of the Young Women's Christian Assoc'ntlou held In I. os Angeles. CM., In May. 11115. The difllciiltles of aitracilng capable women in tins neui or work were laid to the long hour , lack of Independence In arranging recreation hours, lack of opportunities for growth and progress and lack of social siandlng Clrls have acquired a distaste for the conditions which govern household WOrfe since the freedom I hey have experienced ex-perienced in working In munition factories fac-tories Hy standardizing domestic serv- , Ice It Is believed by the Y'oung Women's Wo-men's Christian Association that a higher type of worker may be attracted at-tracted to the necessary work In homes. |