[To THE EDITOR 07 TER " SPECTATOR.") SIB, — Your correspondent " A
Friend of Girls" (Spectator, December 12th) seems to have missed the point of our scheme. There is a great deal of very efficient training for domestic service given in various homes and institutions all over the kingdom, and there is no difficulty in placing the servants so trained; but the training is not officially recognized, it has not received that hall-mark of efficiency, a certificate. Our aim is to make domestic servants skilled workers. The difference, I take it, between a skilled and an unskilled worker is not that the former has knowledge while the latter is ignorant—many unskilled workers have a great deal of knowledge (they all know how to break crockery)—but that the skilled worker has tested knowledge. Under our scheme the efficiency of the training will be tested by examinations and attested by certifi- cates. This will standardize domestic service and make it a skilled employment.—I am, Sir, &c., ELLEN 0. TAIT.
Lismullen, Wimbledon Park.
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