Domestic Services.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2208, 15 August 1910, Page 6

Domestic Services.

“ There is no-mason why the calling of a woman who gives h j rservices in the. house should not ho as respected as that of a woman who gives hers in the care of the sick,” said Mr J. 11. Howell, director of t!m Christ church Technical College, at a meeting of the committee set up in connection with the establishment of a domestic training hostel in Christ church, lie said that the training of nurses had given those who held certificates a status and respect in the community that hj id been quite foreign to their profession a century before and the provisions of a means of training that would guarantee the production of skilled and aide domestic servants should being to the holders of certificates the respect of their employers and ensure con litions of work that would make (heir employment attractive. Domestic servants were as necessary as nurses, and their calling demanded as' much skill and resource. Upon completion of a course of training in a properlyconducted hostel, a girl would receive a certificate in housewifery that sh mid place her in virtually the same status as that of nurse*. There had been cst ihiished m Engl an 1 a Guild of II in-teliold I) niiet, and although its title wis unattractive, it hid boon able t > so.jam for its members pleasant conditions of work and adequate remuneration.