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Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

Here the women learn to keep house as maids ; ;

they become skilled in cooking and cleaning and in receiving guests.

They learn how to take care of children and sick members of the family.

They have model kitchens, a sick room with a model patient in bed, and a nursery with a life-like doll.

Although the training is only for one month, it is intensive and thorough.

Graduates of this maid's school are much in demand and can always find work immediately.

Occasionally they return for additional training.

Masu's home economics training comes into play as she designs cupboards along modern functional lines for the storage of cleaning materials.

Masu also uses the training she got in an American home where she learned to polish furniture, clean corners, and work effectively in keeping a shiny house.

Her education in the United States, not just in a classroom, but also in an American house with an American housekeeper, stands her in good stead.