, 1879-05-04
The New Project Of Kitchen"
Garden Schools for
Children.
The Millennium Coming for
Housekeepers --- Toy
Housekeeping.
What the Women Are Doing at the
Laboratory Of the School Of
Technology. -

autoalism matter Is in their own hands to
p,cni or mar, and the present indications appea.
to point to the mcnd.ng Of the long crying evils
VERY decidedly. One Of the first indications was
the opening Of the schools Of cookery, to which
wise mistresses sent their domcstlcs for train.
in., Alady, in speaking Of this last winter,
made the irritable and short-aightca criticism
*'Yes. training them for somebody else to rear
the benetit-''
The wiser woman to whom this criticism was
addressed replied: " That may be, in individual
cases; but we shall all reap the benefit by-and-
by, because 1t is going to become general and
not special institution,-this school OF training
in cooking" And now We have the second
promise here In Boston Of
STILL BETTER THINGS o.
in the new Industrial Schools, OF kitchen-gar-
den, founded on the one in New York. These
schools hare been talked OF for long time, and
everybody is delighted that they are at length
in operation. The two that are under way here
are at the Childrenfs Mission, on fremont
street, and at the North End Mission, on North
street. It will be seen by this that these are
not the " whims OF society-Dcople," e,"-pretty
play-schools, where young ladies put on bccom-
ing white aprons and launty CAPS to learn to
make costly salads and Charlotte Russo. They
are uOL 1OE 50uuE 1auIcSE AA49 RAL AL %&1G
children Of the Mission institutions, who arc to
be taught from the very beginning how to
keep house,-for themselves it they should
marry when they grow mp and have homes Of
their own, or to serve others IN the
Boston the sound or sight of the words, ':Sorth
End,' or "North street," is always suggestive
Of poverty and misery. 1t used to be, indeed,
the haunt not only OF poverty and misery, but
of vice. ...
SORT OF F1vE-PoNTs.
l. is only few years ago that the Sunday
Mission-School began its cleansing work, and
thus. little by little. we have come to the time
when the children at the regular weekday Mis-
sion are under tuition to make OF them active,
sclf-supporting, self-respecting members Of So
cicty, who will at the same time help to make
society, through its homes, places Of comfort
and order, which will become the rule With US,
and not the exception. There have been, US
yet, OF at this writing, but two lessons. There
is no doubt, however, Of the success Of the plan;
and the most enthusiastic are the
children themselves, for 1t Is really to them
playwork. Nerer was housework made SO
charming. TolooG IN upon them is to look in
upon miniature household with all the little
maids in a fairy world OF f1olic work, for here
each child has q small oval table, with pretty
tab;c-cloth, napkins folded and slipped into
rings, knives, forks, spoous, plates, cups and
saucers and all the rest of the table-furnishing,
in toy sizes.
FIRST THEY Lax THE TABLE,
directed by com mpetent teacher, who explains
to them the meaning and use Of any dish with
which they may not be faniIinr, and the proper
place for it upon the table. Then they stclear
away" and wash the dishes, put them away In
their closets, rinse their small dish-towels and
hang them to dry in an airy p1nce- The dish
pans are very convenient double oans, with two
for washing and one for
rinsing the dishes; so it will be seen that these
embryo housemai1s will come up with a proper
sense OF the duties Of dish-washing, which will,
It strictly adhered to, oby!ate the necessity Of
sending plate from the table, or trowuingly
rejecting the glass that Is redolcnt OF soap, aud
other active hints on the part OF the watchful
mistress On the first saturday-for tue les
sons ut the schools are OF Satnrdays-the
lesson Was on table-setting; at the second les
Son this was found to be remembered so per-
was omitted. The next lesson is to be bed-mak-
lng. and this will be followed By washing, troll
lng, sweeping, waiting at table, tending door,
making fires, s,-eVerything, in fact, that is re-
quired in the arrangementan and ordering OF every
part Of household life. All this work is carried
IN to
THE SINGING OF LITTLE sosGs
descriptive Of whatever they may be about. This
Is to fix everything more firmly in their minds,
and to ease the mouotony. Certainly nothing
sould be pretticr than to see these little girls
1eatly and earefu:ly doing their miniature
ray little dittes flowing from their hIs. One
mail girl, in her enthusiasm, said that it was
i'll ''just like fairy story-'' Auother,-tlle
laughter Of parents in different condition OF
ife from these children,--in visiting the scene
# this fary-land of work set to music, declared
orrowfuily that she wished her father would |
all und get poor, SO that she "couid go down
nth the Mission children and have good |
ine.n |
Though New York claims the honor of pro-
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