St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-12
DRIVING MEN TO DRINK.
The Awful Crime Of Which American
Housewives Are Guilty.
A REMEDY NEAR AT HAND.
Seine Of st. Paul's Society Ladies Will
Establish a Cooking School for
Themselves and Servants.

Yesterday morning between forty and
fifty ladies congregated at the Central
Presbyterian church to discuss the FEAST
bility of establishing training school
for domestics in st. Paul. Mrs. Emma
p. Ewing, the Parloa of the West, who
is at present conducting a cooking class
in Minneapolis, took the floor and an
nounced herself ready to lend any as
sistance the ladies might demand. She
then subsidized, dropped into chair,
and for about five minutes the innate
modesty of those assembled threatened
to get the better of their original inten-
ton, and turn the affair into Quaker
meeting. Finally, Miss Carrie Hol-
brook came to the 'front.' apologized for
the baShtulneSS of Mrs. Virtue, the
leading spirit of the movement, and
stated the object of the meeting and the
plan that had been suggested for attain
ing it. The plan was to establish a sort
of combined training school for domes-
tics and employment bureau at Mrs.
Virtues home, where any lady on the
payment of certain sum, say s. per
year, would be entitled to hire servants,
or send servants, lacking in any partic-
ular branch of domestic kno Wedge, for
instruction in that branch. Mrs. Ewing
was then called upon to tell the ladies
just how to go to work to establish such
a school. She soon gave them to under
stand that their plan was not practical.
Several years ago, backed by prominent
women of the place, Mrs. Ewing en-
deavOred to establish a training school
for servants in Chicago, and she said
the outcome of it was, they found house
keepers could neither force, coax nor
hire their domestics to attend the
school 1t must be made a training
school for mistresSeS as we'll as
servants. Housekeepers cannot push
servants in ahead Of themselves, and
as long as they rise superior to the
work of the kitchen their servants are
going to strive to do the same. When
ladies acknowledge their own ignor-
ance and display interest in their own
perfection in domestic economy it is an
easy matter to lead their servants in
the same path. Reform
MUST BE MADE FASHIONABLE
before the star-eyed goddess stands any
show of obtaining hold on the fair sex.
Mrs. Ewing would have the school of
domestic economy in st. Paul an inSti-
tuition where all classes of women-even
the young thing who knows nothing
about r0lling-pins but to cover them
with velvet to hang button hooks Oh
may get sound instruction in the sci
ence of good housekeeping. The need
of such school is so vital that if
it is started right it will run in
obedience to natural law. American
hOusekeeperS have a big reputation
abroad. The emperor Of Japan has in
stituted school in Toxic where Japan
csc young women are instructed in
housekeeping On the American plan.
But Mrs. living thinks the reputation
is undeserved, and that if the emperor
could know the inner history of Ameri-
can housekeeping he would protect his
female subjects from it's fearful bond
age. American housekeepers are the
SLAVES OF THEIR SERVANTS.
They do not dare to assert their rights
to their own souls if the kitchen queen
shows any desire to set up claim to it,
They and their families eat heavy bread
soggy pie crust, tough meat, and watery
potatoes. and go uncomplainingIy on
to chronic dyspepsia and an early grave,
because the ignorance of the average
housewife is such that if the manage
ment of things fall into her hands the
last state of the family is worse than
the first. American men are the
most patient, wonderful beings on
earth. Mrs. Ewing says she often feels
like going down on her knees in
reverent alteration before the American
husband. His loyalty to his wife is
marvellous. He ruins his digestive APP
paratus forever ON the stone his wife
gives him when he cries for bread, and
while he is suffering the worst, he meets
with virtuOuS indignation the idea that
anybody can teach his wife any thing
Of
tenthS of the drunkenness against
which good women work, lies at their
own kitchen doors. The hands of the
ignorant cook pave the way to the
saloon. Men go from their home tables
hungry, with the bad taste of innutri-
tiouS food in their mouths, and are lit
tie to blame if they do take a glass of
beer, or a drink of whisky for their
stomachs' sake on their return down
town. Mrs. Ewing declares, mo
young woman has any moral right
to marry unless she is instructed in
the science of domestic economy. What
we are depends OH the food we eat and
the homes we live in. The grand
women Of America have been too much
given to soaring above and beyond
is the beginning of all wisdom. Mental
development, reform, charity, begin at
home-in the kitchen"
The plan of organization proposed by
Mrs. Ewing is like that of the school in
Richmond. Ind, with which she is at
present connected. 1t began with
cooking school which is to grow into
comprehensive training school. A fund
of $500 was necessary to start with.
This was obtained by issuing stock. 100
shares at s. per share. Different classes,
housekeepers. domestics, school girls,
have different days for instruction.
The Institution is self-supporting
and its stock is selling at premium.
September being deemed the best time
Tor opening, the ladies of st. Paul have
concluded to establish a school then
after the plan suggested by Mrs. Ew-
ing. In the meantime it is proposed to
institute temporary school, in which
ladies skilled in some particular branch
of cooking will give voluntary instruc-
tons to domesticS and hOusekeepers. A
body of men, known as the examining
board of gourmands, will be appointed
to pass judgment on the cooking done,
and it is intended to give the newsboys
the benefit Of the victuais prepared at
the school. A meeting will be held
next week to elect officers and complete
the organization. Mrs. Ewing promised
to be present. and agreed to show the
women how their school may be made
to put moneyin their treasury, as well
as palatable food into the stomaciis OF
its patrons.