. Phelps-Stokes fellowship studies . sewing for the people oftheir communities, and from the demand made upon them it wouldseem to be a profitable line of work for others of the negro womento enter. There were found to be 4 storekeepers and 2 restaurant keepers,of those who keep store two are proprietors and two were engaged ?Chapters VII .ind VIII. 23 as clerks in small grocery stores. One of the proprietors had beenin business for about 3 3 years, and seemed to have made quite asuccess of lur business, having become owner of three dwelling-houses, in addition to her store. The others seemed
. Phelps-Stokes fellowship studies . sewing for the people oftheir communities, and from the demand made upon them it wouldseem to be a profitable line of work for others of the negro womento enter. There were found to be 4 storekeepers and 2 restaurant keepers,of those who keep store two are proprietors and two were engaged ?Chapters VII .ind VIII. 23 as clerks in small grocery stores. One of the proprietors had beenin business for about 3 3 years, and seemed to have made quite asuccess of lur business, having become owner of three dwelling-houses, in addition to her store. The others seemed to be fairlyprosiierous, although the stores run by the negroes were not pat-ronized to the same extent as the white stores in the because the negroes do not keep so good nor so extensive aline of goods, and partly because of the suspicion on the part of thenegroes of the members of their own race. The restaurants are dirtyand unattractive in api)earance and often have around them an un-desirable class of Type of Kestaurant Kept by Gainesville Negi-o Women. Domestic Service. From Table X, it wlil be seen that SI percent of the negro womenengaged in the gainful occupations are those in domestic has always been and continues to be the chief form of employ-ment open to negro women. While there was no professional classamong the women at the end of the war there was a considerablegroup of well trained, highly skilled domestics that have probablynever been surpassed. As has been pointed out in another studymade of the negroes of Athens,* domestic service in the days beforethe war was considered a privilege by the slaves and only the moreintelligent were selected for house servants. These were given T. J. Woofter. Negroes of Atliens, Georgia, page 43. 24 thorough training under the supervision of the mistress of the homeand a life time of service in the same capacity resulted in mostefficient performance of duty. After the war a number of these
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