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v. social movements.
tribute to their activity. But courses in house-keeping are also arranged now in
People’s high Schools and at larger industrial centres, where the care of
employers provides opportunity for young women to be taught household duties.
Finally, great importance should be attached to the School for Farm
House-Keeping at Rimforsa, founded by the Fredrika Bremer Society in 1907, which
trains teachers for similar institutions for women, and for fixed and itinerant
school kitchens in the country, and lecturers for women’s courses on small
farms, etc.
Education in the care of children. People are more and more awakening to
the need of training nurses and future mothers in the reasonable care of children,
and for this purpose courses are now set on foot in many places in Sweden.
Instruction in the care of children is also commonly given in connection with
the schools of house-keeping mentioned above. Similarly, it seems particularly
suitable to combine creches in towns with the education of nurses. So it has
been arranged in Stockholm at Engelbrekts Crèche for Children and School for
the Care of Children, and at "Children s Care" in Gothenburg. The association,
"School for the Care of Children" in Stockholm co-operates with the higher
elementary school of that town in furnishing instruction in the subject to
its senior pupils.
The Child-Care Society in Stockholm imparts theoretical and practical
instruction in the subject, in a course of 3 months adapted to the needs of servants
and educated girls alike. The Bureau for the Care of Children of the Swedish
Poor Law Reform Association in Stockholm offers, in connection with its infants’
home at örby, near Stockholm, short courses in the subject (see art. "Protection
of Children").
The provision of work. Side by side with what has been effected in
the opportunities for education of young people, measures have been found for
facilitating the obtaining of situations by adults. (The next section will give a
complete account of the forms adopted in labour exchange proper.)
The Registry of Women-Workers and Employers in Stockholm supplies, at an
entrance fee of only 10 ore, information as to all kinds of occasional work
for women, such as sewing, washing, waiting at table, etc.
The Society for Providing Situations for domestic servants at Stockholm is a
servants’ registry office, intended to consider very especially the mutual interests
of both mistresses and servants, and it consists of founders and supporters: the
yearly subscription for house-keepers is at least 2 kr., and for servants, 1 kr.
A sick fund has been formed for rendering temporary assistance to needy members.
The Salvation Army has a bureau for providing places in connection with
its servants’ home in Stockholm, for the express purpose of taking in hand and
giving information to girls newly arrived from the country.
Many different enterprises work in aid of supplying labour in the home. A
previous account has been given as to what is done in this respect in the
department of home-sloyd. We will now give some details) of other similar
undertakings.
The Charity Organization Society (F. V. 0.) has a sloyd department for
the purpose of providing work for those who, from old age, sickness, or other
cause, are unable to procure work for themselves. The products are sold at
current prices in the shop connected with the department.
To aid women from all classes of the community who have to add to their
incomes by needle-work, etc., the Beehive Association was founded in Stockholm
in 1870, and developed in 1885 into the Society for Furthering House Industry.
For a small percentage, the Beehive disposes of all kinds of woman’s work, but is,
besides, intended to develope skill and, in case of need, to give advice, advance
working materials, exhibit designs and models, etc. There are similar enterprises
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