Greenland, 1917
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to Greenland as teachers (governesses) usually get about Kr 300 per year as salary, besides transportation and living, though occasionally one gets as much as Kr 400. Miss Houtman, who is 19 yrs old, tells me that she has had Kr 200 for her year with the Scimons at Fred- riksbaad, but that she not only taught the children 2 1/2 hrs per day, but also did the room work of four rooms and ground and made the coffee for luncheon. She said that she was maid as well as teacher but that she liked it at Fredriks- baad. This she had no time to her- sf. Her father is a well to do, or wealthy merchant. Her mother