Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-06-26
NEW BOSTON NOTION.
The knowledge Of Successful HOusekeop.
ing fought.

The Boston advertiser gives an account
Of very sepbible scheme which has been
conceived by few laige-hearted and level
headed women Of that city. The scheme ia
an improvement upon the kindergarten
method OF teaching and the institution will
be known as the kitchen kindergarten, The
idea is to have the children meet once a week.
deVoting two hours TO each lesson. Each
child Is TO be provided with a tsblecloth.
napkins ana everything belonging 10 n we'll
rrd eres table, and Will be teught to Law III I'm
a proper manner. They will also be taupht
how 20 remove the dishes, wash them and
put them away in the neatest and quickest
manner. When the work has been iinisbed
the children listen to pleasant talk from
the teacher about behavior, are fought some
thing about the best methods Of exeycisinc
their muscles and entertained with music
The second lesson takes n all the details of
bed-making; the third is devoted TO washing
and Ironing; the fourth to syeepinp. waitInS
on table, tending door, laying fires and othe5
and at last come long course of lessons
intended to perfect the pupils in the flno art
OF cooking. Two OF these schools have been
established aud have already deyeloped spr-
prising results, though they are not vet be-
yond the experimental stage. II the schools
already established prove permanently sue.
cessiul others will be opened and Boston will
not be the only city blessed with such insti
tutlons. The one pressing long-felt want
which should be supplied Ia this country ia
skilled fominIne LABOR in the household. The
educational systems of this country do NOT
take into account the fact that almost every
woman will one day have care and superin.
tendence of household upon her hands. and
that she must either do the work herself
superinlend tho hired girl, or become the
slave OF her "help." IL thus happens that
thousands OF girls, whose only mission IN life
Will be the superintendence OF household
and whose destiny at some period of their
llVes will condemn them to actively partici.
pate in its lahors and drudgery, actuallv
enter upon those duties as ignorant OF them
IS tho young men they marry. They NAV
nave been ''well educated" IN the public
schools; they may have been 'fnished" at
some Institute" Bat the accompl ishment
and education impaired in these necessary
and ornamental institutions are about us use
iul to them as the training OF horse Jockey
would be 20 the editor OF daily newspapeS.
They find themselves when too old to learn,
suddenly called upon to master the details of
one of the most difficult of all ptofesslons-
that OF the accomplished housekeeper. As
general thing tde burden is too great aud the
effort encs In disgnst and that last resort of
incompetency--the American bosrding-hOuse
Ii this resort should become On impossible
thing on account OF an Increasing family, the
OF the household Is left 10 SER
wants whose waste and extravaganza bind the
chsin Of poverty 20 the family, never TO 10
broken In the lifetime OF the miserable moth
er. All this might have been prevented by a
systematic course OF training in childhood.