DADDY3 EVENING
TAIRY TALE
6y Mary Graham Bonner
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THE CHAMPION CAT.
“Purr, purr," said Charles Chin
chilla Cat, known for short by his
best friends as Charlie.
“Purr, purr,” answered the other
cats at the cat show.
“Did you hear the news?” asked
Charles Chinchilla Cat.
“We heard something, but not all.
We heard that you did wonderfully In
the cat show. Tell us. They were
talking about your place over there.
We couldn’t hear them for they were
talking so hard and so fast."
“They had lots to say," said Charles
Chinchilla Cat.
“Tell it to us. Charlie,” purred the
other cats.
“Hush.” said Charlie.
“What are we to ‘hush’ about?" they
asked.
“You mustn't call me Charlie at this
cat show. Y’ou see I have been so
much honored. I am so distinguished.
That means I am so fine and superior
and noble and great.”
“Gracious, Charlie,” said the other
cats, “that’s a whole lot.”
“Cats. I told you all you mustn’t call
me Charlie.”
“But that is your name,” they said.
“It's my name my friends call me by
—those who know me well.”
“We’re your friends, and we know
you well,” said the other cats.
“That’s all right. I admit it. But
you must treat me differently at the
cat show. I am very superior as I
have said before, especially today.”
“What must we call you?" asked the
other cats.
"You must call me by my name in
full—It makes no difference."
“They both mean the snme,” said
one of the other cats. "Of course It
makes no difference.”
"Of course not.” smiled Charlie, as
he pulled his whiskers and licked his
face.
“Tell us about the news,” said
the other eats.
“Pray tell us about the news, dis
tinguished, honorable, noble Charles
Chinchilla Cat,” said one of the others.
“That’s the way to talk to me at
the cat show,” said Charlie. “That’s
fine. Yes, I will tell you the news
at once.
“I was at another cat show this
morning. It was held In a beautiful
hotel where bell boys ran around an
swering bells and where beautiful la
dles and handsome men walked
through the halls.
“I won the championship at that cat
show, and then my master brought me
over here where all my friends were.
“And I have won the championship
here, too. I have not only won all
these distinctions but I have been told
that I iiave been called the most per
fect chinchilla cat in the country. Of
course anyone can tell by looking at
"Anyone Can Tell I Am a Beautiful
Cat."
me that I am a beautiful sliver cat
with a most exquisite coat, but my
honors today have been flue and num
berless.
"I am all silver. X have no spots.
That Is rare and exquisite In Itself.
Tes, I have been Judged under differ
ent sets of rules; and that means that
from every standpoint, from every
Judge, from every person who knew
anything about cats I have been con
sidered the prize winner, the best sil
ver cat, the most handsome of chin
chilla cats.
“Ah, I am unbeaten. No one can
surpass me, though my four-year-old
father Is a winner, too, of many prizes.
I came naturally by winning prizes.
But oh, I have won more than almost
any cat ever won, I do believe.”
"We do believe so, too,” said all the
other cats. "We’re proud to know you,
Charlie.”
"Hush,” said Charlie.
"Oh. we beg your pardon,” they all
said, "we’re proud to know you,
Charles Chinchilla Cat, and we hope
we meet you at the next show.”
“I hope so, too,” said Charlie. “Purr,
purr, good-by.” For his master had
come to take him away.
■ THE •
KITCHEN
_CABINET
K. t. HAS HOI SEMAID
TRAINING SCHOOL
Negro Woman Point* Way to Solving
Servant Problem—Incidentally the
Widow of Former School Head Does
Wonderful l plift Work Among
Young Girl* of Her Race in City.
THE good housemaid, than which
there is no more precious jewel,
is an antidote for divorce, a synonym
for comfort and does for the modem
I household what shock absorbers do
: for the modem car—smooths the
I rough places and prevents bumpy rid
[ ing.
Ten years ago a Negro woman in
| Kansas City, looking about for an
j occupation to dissipate the loneliness
1 engendered by the death of her hus
; band, recognized in the foregoing facts
! a need and a mission among girls of
I her own race.
And that is why Kansas City today
j has the only public school for house
i maids in the United States.
Five hundred of them trained by
j this woman in the past ten years now
| are in service in the prosperous homes
j of the city and some are receiving as
' high as $18 a week.
A condition of unemployment among
I young Negro women, bad for them
I has been obviated. They have been
j given a profession, a calling, and a
definite place in the social structure.
Work is always pleasant when a per
! son is well trained for it. They are
contented because they are well
trained.
Well-to-do women in the city have ;
interested themselves in the school i
with the result that a board of white
women has been appointed to assist j
in outlining courses.
Situations are obtained for trained
or partly trained maids; suggestions
for improving the course given and a
general supervision of the school, from
the housekeeper’s point of view main
tained.
Committee Give* Advice.
It is known as an advisory commit
tee and grew out of a concerted at
tempt of Kansas City women to solve
the servant problem by co-operation.
The answer to this problem is a do- j
mestic science teacher once said, “is j
always wrong.”
The committee consists of Mrs.
Henry C. Flowers, Mrs. Whitfield:
Sammis, Mrs. Herman Dierks, Mrs. j
John H. Thacher, Mrs. I. M. Ridge:
and Mrs. G. W. Addison.
These women with the assistance of
Mrs. B. J. Williams, the teacher who
started the school, have virtually
solved the servant problem.
“It did not solve itself, you may be
I sure,” one of them said. “We had to
work at it and to have co-operation.
We think we have the answer in a
school where the training in the past
forced from a worried and unhappy
woman, overworked and irritated, is
given in its proper environment, a
classroom.”
So extensive and efficient has the
school become that whenever a va
cancy evists in a home, the first call
goes out to Mrs. Williams at the Bruce
school.
Bankers, business men and all other
householders who employ maids now'
know that the training school can sup
ply a wray to make the household run
smoothly and happily.
“A chain is no stronger than its
weakest link,” is a proverb to which
Mrs. Williams adds that "a good maid
is a link in the household which op
erates toward forging a chain of suc
cess for the members of it.
"A well baked biscuit and a proper
ly laid table are a good solution for
the divorce problem,” Mrs. Williams
says.
The Bruce school for Negro house
mails is at Thirteenth street and Jack
son avenue. Ten years ago, when it
was started, Mrs. Williams held ses
sions in her home around the comer.
She had studied in the domestic sci
ence department of the Manhattan ag
riculture college, but did not employ
her training except in her own home
until after the death of her husband,
T. W. H. Williams, for many years
principal of the Bruce school.
Sees Need of Training.
“I looked about me and saw young
Negro girls suffering for lack of
training,” she said, recounting the
origin of her idea. “Time and again
they were discharged and replaced by
white girls.
“I noticed that women were more
willing to train white girls of foreign
birth than Negro girls.
“It seemed to me,” she added with
sincerity, “that I would be meeting
a real need by opening a school.”
By natural gifts an intelligent
teacher and able to grasp the problem
in its broadest significance, she saw
that to be a success, the school must
be thorough and set a standard.
At first bearing only the meager
fruits of obscurity, the circle of its in
fluence widened slowly until: “She’s
one of Mrs. Williams’ girls” now has
come to stand for honesty, neatness
and capability.
Those proud and comfortable in the
nossession of one Mrs. Williams
housemaids invariably mentioned and
recommended the school to their
friends and many women allowed the
girls to continue in the school one
or two afternoons a week in order to
j perfect their training.
Additional training in fancv service,
are making of salad dressings, tea
cakes and fancy cookery were given.
“They always know one of my girls
when she answers the doorbell,” Mrs.
Williams said proudly.
The housemaid’s costume recom
mended bv the teacher consists of a
blue dress with white apron and rap
in the morning and white cap, black
! dress and white apron in the after
noon.
“I’m running a ‘housemaid factory, "
Mrs. Williams says, "but I remembei
that other training than mere formal
ability to do household work is neces
sary. Courteous manners, good char
acter and cheerfulness are important
oualities in a good housemaid."
Schooling Is Thorough.
The training given begins with the
i preparation of food and the course is
carried from the baking of biscuits to
the proper manner at the front door
j in answering the bell.
The low voice so much praised by
the poets is a point emphasized by
Mrs. Williams and consideration, fore
thought and iniatative are things she
endeavors to instill in the Negro
! girls.
The school was taken over by the
board of education two years ago.
Previous to that for eight years Mrs.
Williams carried on the work. Many
times incompetent Colored girls with
out funds begged for a chance to learn
! and promised to return the money.
These promises, she says, were almost
j invariably made good. In ten years,
the teacher has had brought to her
attention only two rases of dishonesty.
“I do not stop with teaching them
i how to mix biscuit dough with two
i knives in order to make it flaky,” she
! said.
"I believe morals and neatness and
manners are as important as placing
; salad fork in the right relation to
the dinner plate, though I do not un
•ievnstimnte the latter.”
.Since taking over the .work, she has
been assigned also to train the fifth,
sixth and seventh grade girls of the
nmce school in domestic science and
the rudiments of housemaid work.
How to stack dishes for washing, to
keen the silver and the glassware to
gether and manage the cups without
; danger of breakage are the first les
| sons in dishwashing.
These girls have everone been given
| iobs for the summer as helpers in
j houses in Kansas Citv. One of them
I has been engaged for the home of I.
I. Cammack. superintendent of schools.
At the commencement demon.-tra
I tion last week, one little girl, Lois
Brooks by name, stood before a large
'’sso’-'h'nee mane of them white wom
en, and made a “batch” of biscuits.
She measured out the ingredients,
mixed the dough and baked the de
licious morsels.
“The baking powder was made by
"iris in the cooking classes,” an
nounced the voung demonstrator.
Mrs. John Thatcher, wife of an at
torney, who had been particularly in
terested in the school, recently wrote
from Boston, where she had gone to
live, that she had found no school in
the Kast in any way comparable with
Kansas Citv’s school for housemaids.
Demands for maids are increasing
so rapidly that it is likely the school
will be enlarged in the near future
and other equipment added.
ATCHISON, KAS.
Miss Hattie Ingram, principal of
the Colored school in Leavenworth,
who lives at 829 Fleming street, with
her parents, returned from Hutchison
Monday where she lectured on some
of the problems of the Colored race.
Miss Ingram will give the same lec
ture at the Flbenezer Baptist church
Tuesday evening.
Manuel Phelps a returned soldier
is working at Covington’s barber shop.
Mr. Phelps brought many relics from
France, which he has on exhibition
in the shop window. Mr. Phelps tells
many interesting things concerning
his life in the army.
Mrs. G. G. Brown and baby of
Wichita are visiting her sister-in-law,
Mrs. A. A. Davis, on Mound street.
Mrs. Brown is the wife of Dr. Brown,
who formerly practiced here. Dr.
Brown will join his wife in a few
days.
Mrs. James Mayball has returned
from a Topeka hospital, where she
underwent a painful operation. She
is doing nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Steward, father
and mother of Dr. Steward of Little
Hock, Ark., are visiting their son.
The Mesdames J. D. Colbert and
Myrtle Potter are spending two weeks
at Excelsior Springs.
Miss Lucile Carter is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Cal Montgomery.
Mrs. Frank Wood of Des Moines,
la., is visiting Miss Lulu Valuzett.
Mrs. Luke Barnett is recovering
from a serious sick spell.
John Scott, the popular bachelor,
has a fine garden and some spring
chickens ready for the market.
Miss Ally Barnett is particularly
elated with the success of the class of
women that she trained for future
■ service for Uncle Sam. Miss Barrett
trained about thirty women.
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