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livelihood and professional training.
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established in 1908 with a bequest of 4 million kronor. These are situated at
Säbyholm, Bro, with the purpose of providing poor boys and girls, particularly
from large towns, with free education of a practical turn in the country. Besides
theoretical subjects, instruction is given in metall- and woodwork, farming and
gardening, to boys; and to girls, in domestic economy, sewing, care of children,
and gardening. The period of schooling is four years. Up to now, ten cottages,
besides the schoolhouse, workshop, etc. have been built, each for a "family" of
eight girls and six boys with a "mother-superintendent.
Schools for domestic work. So far as training in domestic vocations is
concerned, an account has already been given in the article on the extension
and importance of school kitchens; we shall therefore only deal here with what
has been done in the same direction outside the school.
"Schools for domestic work", for paying pupils of the upper classes, are
found both in towns and in the provinces; yet they fall to a certain extent
outside the limits of this survey.
Among those with low charges for girls of the artisan class, and intended
generally to train them as servants, we may mention the Stockholm School of
Practical Domestic Economy, and the Little School of House-Keeping at Sundbyberg,
in both of which the period is one of three years, and the pupils are boarded,
while under training. There are similar schools in various larger towns. One
may also point out that a cooking course is also arranged in connection with
the School for Household Economy in Uppsala.
Pupils are received for a training course of five months at the South P. W.
C. A. School of House-Keepers and Domestic Servants. Girls are received and
trained (after they have finished in the Stockholm elementary schools), for a
course of one or two years at the School of House-Keeping of Stockholm Lady
Elementary Teachers at Fornäs (Norrtälje).
Two schools are maintained in Stockholm by the association of Schools of
House-Keeping and Care of Children, in which girls, after leaving school, may
pursue a course of one year free of charge. The work here is productive socially
because it is used in infants’ creches, for the feeding and care of children, and
cheap meals: "the girls’ kitchen" etc. The idea of instruction of this kind has
also been taken up in Cävle.
The previously mentioned Society for Promoting Popular Education, offers at
Stockholm, in its continuation school for girls, a two years’ course in practical
experience of serving meals, care of children, care of the sick, sewing etc.
Education in cooking for workmen’s wives has been provided in Stockholm, partly
by the Swedish section of W. C. T. A., and the Committee for Courses in Cooking
for Housewives (formed by the association of teachers at cooking schools and
subsidized municipally) and partly also by the municipal authorities, namely the
Boards of slaughter-houses, market-halls, and the gas works. AH these courses
have generally been quite free of charge. The training of housewives also aims
at advisory work for the home, which has been set in operation in some parts
of Sweden, e. g., by the Associations of Teachers at Cooking Schools at
Stockholm. For shop assistants, factory girls, etc., evening courses in serving meals
are likewise arranged in many places, e. g., at the State training college for
cookery teachers, and the South Y. W. C. A. in Stockholm ; and at Uppsala in
the School for Household Economy, and elsewhere.
As concerns education in house-keeping in the provinces, itinerant school
kitchens are intended to provide this chance even to smaller communities. They
are sent out by several institutions, e. g., the Swedish Society for Temperance
and Popular Education, by the Athenéum for girls in Stockholm, and the School
for Household Economy in Uppsala. Certain County Councils have furnished
such schools, and like the provincial agricultural societies are accustomed to con-
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