| Show HOME ASSISTANT PLAN how does your husband treat his office assistant chis la Is the question that women must lust put to themselves the ni selves it if they would understand the idea of the home assistant according to miss beatrice A stearns steams industrial department of 0 the national doard board of the Y W C A who lias has just returned from germantown man Lian town pa where she tried out the new domestic dol nestle service plan the general plan as it is being worked out is tile the home assistant e shall ha I 1 I 1 work an in eight hour day forty four hours a week with one full day free each week A vacation mth pay on oil the lasis basis of two weeks for a year of service Is ie due the ass stant specialization of all kinds is eliminated and the home assistant performs all general work except heavy washing she provides her own home and is called by her last name and title the salary is 12 a week and upward when miss stearns steams went to the employment office of the german town association she inserted ul 1 in n the local papers it read WANTED home assistants eight hours a day 6 days a week board and room not glyen givon in the home 1500 a week rot not a servants position the following morning eighty girls applied many of them were college girls and nurses some of them were governesses and a number acamo came from offices and stores one was a school teacher and a college graduate you are offering a position which 1 I have been looking for ever since I 1 graduated from college I 1 love and I 1 have never bee been 21 able to see why any stigma should be attached to it miss stearns steams placed the girl in a family for the summer where she is contented and happy and the family is delighted to have a trained young women to take charge of their household the woman 0 of the house must mu st be ed educated Il Mated miss steams ans said the woman who hesitates to call her home assistant miss brown instead of mary alary has altogether missed the spirit of the new plan this same woman would be indignant it if her husband called his stenographer by her first name and yet the home assistant Is lust just as trained a worker as the office assistant the new home assistant plan will take time to work out successfully but it is bound to conie come everywhere when wh en we placed trained assistants in the home they have proved a satisfaction to the employer |
