1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



285 



with a detenu ination to begin anew 

 the work of raising broken men and 

 women from worthlessness to useful- 

 ness, and with a preparation, an expe- 

 rience and a personality extraordinary, 

 Dr. Morris has opened a home here foi 

 the cure of dipsomania and the morphine 

 habit She will not have it called at) 

 'institution ' It has none of the ear- 

 marks, or hall marks, one might say, ;>i 

 an institution. It is a home in every 

 Ben so of the word. 



She is der ied about another phase ci 

 the matter also It is not a cure for 

 worthless creatures, b"at a veritable door 

 of hope for men — men worthy of the 

 name — who have fallen tlirough drink. 

 There is no hiiutting our eyes to the fad 

 that there are thousands of these brainy, 

 educated, vuluable men and women 

 driftii'p round like wrecks. This is the 

 class she chooses to set hack into pros- 

 perity and pt ace. 



It is iuteri «tiug to soe the home life 

 under her ret'ime. It might be copied 

 in all hom'-s to advantage There i^: 

 proper livi:];.: without too much rule, 

 there i-^ ea'P''«t direction without dicta 

 tiou, (here is cncouragemeTit without 

 palaver uu"l goodness without cant. Of 

 course ther*r is good cheer, for while 

 Dr. MoTris is able to bring a good, big 

 thxiiider^toijii down upon things when 

 they need clearing she herself is a veri- 

 table suahf-am. — Buffalo Express 



VrHiueil Nursery Maids. 



In tiiese days when all fields of work, 

 espednlly woman's work, are said to b'.r 

 overciowtJed it is a relief to find one 

 exception. Tliis except ion is the profes- 

 sion c*" trained uursevv maids, the de- 

 mand being from 50 to 100 per cen. 

 greater than the supply. 



"We can graduate only about 28 girld 

 a year." said the superintendent of the 

 New York Training School For Nursery 

 Maids, "and we have applicants for 

 several hundred during that time. The 

 subject of training nurses for the care 

 of children is receiving each year more 

 attention, and intelligent parents are 

 beginning to feel that the old idea that 

 fcny person could mind the baby is 

 about exhausted. 



"In our training we do not attempt 

 to give medical knowledge, for we con- 

 sider 'a little knowledge a dangerous 

 thing,' but we seek to make them 



capaoie of taking a healthy baby ana 

 keeping it healthy. The nurse learns 

 nursery hygiene in its broadest sense 

 with the rudiments of kindergarten. As 

 a life work for women this profession 

 seems much to be preferred to that of 

 a shop or a factory girl. We have appli- 

 cants for onr graduates from every state 

 in the Union and almost every country 

 in the world. Several cf our graduates 

 are abroad now as nurses in the fami- 

 lies of the nobility. Of course, as I re- 

 marked at first, the demand is greater 

 than the supply, so we are forced to 

 answer 'No' many times where we 

 would be only too glad to supply a good 

 nursery maid. Ouly a short while ago 

 we had an application from the West 

 Indies, and the place was an admirable 

 one, hut we had no one to send there. 

 Every girl graduated is already engaged. 

 "During the last two years there 

 have been similar schools founded in 

 Montreal, Newark, Brooklyn and De- 

 troit. All of these institutions have 

 been modeled after this school. The 

 managers ot one of these have frequent- 

 ly visited us, and in one case sent their 

 superintendent to us for several months' 

 experience. Whenever a new institu- 

 tion of the kind is projected the call im- 

 mediately comes, 'Have you not some 

 one whom you can send to us to organ- 

 ize the work?' We are always forced to 

 say, 'No. ' " 



Woman Engineerg. 



The Engineering Record notes the 

 fact that female draftsmen have for 

 several years been employed in archi 

 tectural and other offices in clerical and 

 copying work chiefly and that one wom- 

 an in the Chicago drainage canal en- 

 gineer's office is doing creditable map 

 and color work. A firm of architectural 

 engineers in New York has gone beyond 

 this and employed one young woman 

 who has graduated from an engineering 

 school and shares the ordinary duties of 

 her associates, though, of course, at a 

 disadvantage concerning shop, mill and 

 field work. 



This moves The Engineering Record 

 to say: "Every encouragement should, 

 of course, be given tp. extentling aud ;de- 

 veloping the- scope of suitable feni: ^ 

 employment, but it should not, in ti e 

 novelty of a new field, be forgotten th;it 

 the profession of engineering is a n ( r 



