The Archive · 1922

A School for Chinese Servants

To the Ed'tor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."'

Sir,—Are there other housekeopers in the western district, who, like myself, wish to give their house servants a chance for some education, yet have not time to teach them?

We foreigners in Shanghai take our servants for granted, asia part of the household machinery, and only at rare intervals realize them as individual men, citizens of the country where we stay as more or less welcome but on the whole, well treated guests. Our closest contact with the social problem is in our relation with our own servants. If we deplore ignorance, inefficiency, and graft, are we doing our part, through the training of our servants, to raise the general level?

After some searching for someone willing to undertake classes for servants at a convenient time, 1 found that the institutional church on Hankow and Thibet' Roads, in the Old McTyeire property, would start classes if there were

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