The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-05-21

ployers, when they take their places In the
great army of those who help or hinder the
making Of . home.
When we look about for remedy for
existing evils, and for aids to our compli-
Gated Housekeeping burdens the very first
to suggest itself IS cooperative laundry.
Could that work be removed from our kitch-
ems great care would be taken away with
it In q recent article upon London life,
Richard Grant White says: "In no English
household of q station above that in which
washing is done as means of livelihood, is
any washing done at all. That ever recurring
torment of American housekeepers is never
known in England, and think the effect of
this is one element of the greater repose and
serenity of English life. In the English
kitchen the fireplace is comparatively small,
and the whole affair much less formidable
than our range which looks like an ironclad
gunboat stranded upon the hearthstone."
Very many of us realize what an infinite
relief it would be could We Danish from
our kitchens the washing. Could we rest in
the belief that in a well-managed laundry
our SOFT unshrunken fannels would not be
ruined by rosin SOAP and our carefully made
garments not be liable to come to pieces as
| mysteriously as did the parsons chaise after
not 100 years, but only few weeks wear,
that would be a great step, aud is not Impos-
| sible. Then q CO operative bakery where all
| the bread, the loaf of cake and the roast
| could be prepared. This would disarm
housekeeping of half its terror. The expert
ment of cooperative housekeeping was tried
q few years ago in Cambridge, Mass. but
Mrs. NJ F. Pierce, whose able articles in the
Atlantic are well remembered, pronounces
this experiment failure, ~ because it was
| done without the CO operative buying, or CO.
operative store, which would have made the
| lessened expense an attractive feature, and
| (2) because of the refusal of families to try
the experiment, for, as was then suggested,
How can CO operative housekeeping be
success where the housekeepers refuse to CO.
operate?"
There is already an effort IN one of our
! Western colleges to teach the principles of
domestic science in the regular course. A
report from the Agricultural College of
Iowa says: Each girl In the junior class
has learned to bake bread. to cook meats,
make plain buildings. They have also
| taken careful notes from the lectures de-
livered on many topics connected with
| the hope of the department of domestic
science of our association, to in time under
take some practical work for the aid of house
keepers. To establish 1t may be a training
school for those who are to seek situations as
cooks in families, or perhaps to give a gene.
raj training for the duties required of an
assistant in Housekeeping. The effect OF all
this will be to lift up a service which has
hitherto been falsely considered degrading.
1t ought to be as honorable to make loaf of
|
the poem depends upon the quality of the
bread the writer has used. Perhaps 1t does
require entirely different order of in
tellect (of that am not sure for the making
of perfect bread is one of the arts in the
future to be honored. But If it is. as we be-
health, give it place Of honor
and thus reward the makers for
the Performance of a duty not always
easy and attractive. But good housekeep-
ing. as generally defined, although an essen
tial aid, is not in itself sufficient to make a
home-in the truest sense of that word. A
home should be the place where the spirit
can, as Emmerson declares it needs to do
''bathe in solitude" or else be surrounded
by the spirits needful helps-not only 9
shelter, but place all your own. where your
differences from the multitude need not be
concealed, where you can grow as we'll as
rest Too much has not been said; too much
can not be said of the sacredness of the family
of its needed influence in all Governments
and it is beginning to be recognized that
wherever there is family there ought to be
home safe from financial disaster and
bearing its character in a neighborhood a
an individual does in society. And wher
we think of what ought to be, and what is
even in this land of ours, whose boast 1t is
! to furnish homes for the multitude, we real
izs that we are indeed long way from thu
millennium.
A short time ago a number of the promi
nent ministers of New York city devoted
, one Sabbath to the consideration of the sub
, ject of homes for the poor in that great city
From the Church of the Covenant, an(
Anthem Memorial came touching appeal
for those whose only abiding places were tn
wretched tenement houses where life coul,
not be considered blessing. DIR. Vincen
said, Nothing that is physically wrong Cal
be morally right, and religion must reiterat
the truth that natures laws ara Gods laws
The Christian church has provided will
prlncely liberality chapels, Sabbath schools
teachers and tracts for the degraded classes
: but their intellects are so blunted, thei
perceptions SO perverted, by the noxious al
! they breathe and the all-pervading filth Il
' which they live, that they are not suscepti
1 bic to moral or religious influences. Chris
tianity must mean to them Gods sunlight
! a pure air, cleanliness and better homes
From these investigations it was found tina
l 500 900 people, nearly half the population O
the city, live in tenement houses; some Q
9 them six stories high and with many room
where the light of day could never enter
These are the places where vice and Grim
9 are fostered, and are the very opposite Q
what the houses of the poor should be. L
the face of these facts we are Nc. surprise
! when high authority says, Eighty pc
cent. of all the crimes against person an
! property are perpetrated by those who hav
lost connection with home life, or who neve
had home" Another eaxnes
minister declared that, without Sc.
= arate homes. laboring elias
u could not improve. and made an appeal 70
: work, such as the Law association OF Phili
delphia had done. in enabling laborers t
/ pay for homes. But, it is not the poor an
degraded classes alone that are in DANCE
. physically. 1t is startling to know ths
9 where wealth and taste have furnished th
/ materials for a home, a lack of scientifi
!. knowledge often makes our most beau.ifr
! houses dangerous to health. Professc
J Chambers president of the board of healt
:, In New York, made this statement in a recer
! lecture: 81 do not believe that one half th
. houses in this city are fit to live in. mea
Z the better class of houses, for the tenemer
houses have not the conveniences whic
. lead to these evils investigations have lie
y to the belief that the germs of many cont,
y gious diseases are found in sewer gas Vi
fortunately this gas is odorless-there is n