Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23

FARMER AND HER ADvIcE-rHE WORK OF THE
NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN
At the meeting at the Arno Saturday sftsr-
noon Of the vasszr Alumne Association Fran
css NJ. Abbott read an interesting statistical
paper respecting college-bred women. The
question. she said. is no longer. Can a woman
get a college education? but. Is 1t expedient
for me to provide one for my daughter? Many
people are still doubtful about the results. At
first it was said Latin and Greek injured the
health. Thousands of irresponsible statements
founded on prejudice and surmise appeared In
the newspapers and magazines, but when a
vassar womsn-Mrs Annie Howes-Barus, IL
published her compilation of health statistics
the scientific accuracy Of tina. record fell like
frost upon the swarm Of buzzing iTsect-hke
items. Scarcely o chirp has been heard since.
People now wish to kno how college educa-
ton affects a woman's after life. The first
question everybody ask is Do women gradu-
Ates marry? Out of the whole number of
graduates a little more than So per cent have
married. To speak by the card. at graduation
\ college woman stands one chance in three
Of marrying. After ten years the scales are
about even, 20 per cent nearly Of the students
Of that period having married. After twenty
years the chances two to three that she is
married. Whether more Of the Vassar women
would have become matrons If they had never
seen the college it is impossible to state.
AFTER MATRIMoSY TEACHING.
After matrimony the profession that claims
the highest number of graduates is teaching.
Many have attained high rank. One has become
registrar of Barnard College, four professors,
one lady principal and tventy-three teachers
have been furnished to Vassar from her own
graduates, one instructor 20 Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology. two professors and two
teachers to Wellesley and two teachers to Smith.
Many are at the head Of private schools Of their
own. Others are teaching in high and normal
schools. No statistics can measure the infu-
ence these women have had on the education
OF the present generation
OTHER PROFESSIONS
There are thirty-nine under the head of
literary workers. Twenty-Five graduates have
received the degree MD. and nearly all are
practicirg physicians. Eleven out of the
twenty-five have married. a fact which does
not seem to have interfered with their profess
sional work. There are sixteen in tho division
of art instructors, which means giving other
than book instruction, music, painting indus
trial work and physical training. Eight are
carrying on scientific researches, in biology,
physiology, mathematics and chemistry. Four
announce themselves farmers Two are
helping to make dictionaries editors on the
Century and Webster's Unabridged. Two
are engaged in astronomical work. one at the
Harvard, the other at the Yale Observatory.
ing thirty-seven different occupations have
been assumed by Vassar graduates.
WOMAN on FARMING.
Mrs v. p c. Barlow, '70.a farmer in Wiscon-
sin, read paper on Farming as a Business
There is not business, she said, which re-
quires for its development and best success
that its manager should ''fence into the private
grounds of his intelligence more thorough
and practical acquaintance witha greater num-
Der and variety of subjects There are soils,
seasons and seeds, hedges and bitches, road
making, fence building, blowing, sowing, hoe
ing, reaping. moving, stacking. threshing,
cleaning and storing. Acknowledge of mechan-
les il necessary in order to understand the COM
parstiye merits of implements and utensils and
how to use and preserve them. There must be
Q knowledge of zoology sufficient to taxa in the
nature and requirements and desirable points
Of domestic animals and q knowledge OF veterin-
ary surgery to understand their diseases. their
preservation and cure Botany must be prac-
tically learned in order to manage the roots
weeds, trees, fruits and flowers OF chemistry,
the same, the husbandman must know the ele-
ments Of his soil in order to apply the right
manures and fertilizers. He should under
stand enough of entomology to overcome his
enemies the potato bugs, chintz bugs, cabbage
worms, apple worms, meal worms, moth mill
ers, Hessian flies and all the kindred host Of
parasites. He should know enough of archi-
lecture TO choose plans in building suited to
and economy, durability and beauty. He
must understand human nature in order
to select competent help and SO secure
faithful and thorough work. He must
know how to keep exact account of all
Investments, expenditures, sales and losses
and from them learn how to take his bearings
He must keep track OF the markets; know how
much wool Australia and South America are
going 10 furnish; what kind of harvest and
weather they have in England; how much wheat
Russia and India can spare, how much is locked
up in the grsraries at home. He must keep
watch of railroads, legislatures and third houses
He must know what the pork packers, the
mil!er-, the butler and cheese makers are do
ing. he must know something of the laws of
trade, protection, tariff and of taxation in gen.
eral. lie must note the rates Of transporta-
non. He must understand the value Of system
and order.
raising will pay the skinner, but mi xed hus-
bandry, at least in the opinion Of one woman,
Is the only way Of probably conducting the
business of farming for the future.
THE NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN
Mrs Mary Parker Woodwork read q paper
on the New England Kitchen, of which the fol-
lowing Is an abstract Says Edward Everett
II ale: Il count il one of the most important
things that has been done in the past year. 50
The New England Kitchen il the materializa-
ton of an idea some time ago conceived in the
active brain OF Mrs Ellen III. Richards the In
structor In sanitary chemistry in the Boston
Institute Of Technology. 1t was with the peo-
pie who have q small sum of money to spend
each day for food that Mrs. Richards de-
termined to try her experiment in the interests
Of wholesome living. Her first question was.
viii these people buy nourishing, palatable
soups and thoroughly cooked cereals in place
Of pies and cakes If they can be furnished a,
moderate prices? A house was hired in the
midst Of the poorer population of Boston and
the routine begun. The kitchen was started
primarily in order TO learn how the people
really live, how they cook. what they buy ready
cooked and what peculiar tastes and prejudices
they have. As a means Of doing this il was
deter mined to study the cooking Of two things-
the cheaper cuts OF beef and the cereals-and
TO offer for sale the results of the experiment.
There have been many attempts on the part OF
sanitary cranks To induce people TO eat what
vas good for them, there have been many
attempts on the part Of business men to utilize
some hygienic theory for profitable manufac-
ture, but here was attempt to educate the
people to like what was good and nutritious by
serving it from day to day.
The successful issue did not come at once
Each Dish was perfected only by the co-opera-
oon OF the whole neighborhood after repeated
testing and commenting. 30 that fnally wha,
might be called . cosmopolitan favor was OBJ
tanned
THE INSULTS.
Now at noon each day Q constant procession
Of pitchers, pals and cans, brought by men
women and children Of many nationalities 70,
pea soup or beef stew. bear witness that really
good food " appreciated and will be purchased
HSra at La Ia ~ 80