The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-03-31
KITCHEN TRAINING.
A WORK WHICH HAS HELPED MANY
POOH AND RICH Families.

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A WORK WHICH HAS HELPED MANY
POOH AND RICH FAMILIES
What "Kitchen Garden Training /" Means
How It Was Started and by Whom.
Miss Huntinston's Great Work for Her
Les; k'r'sn..'. sisters in /" Big o'''. %.
There is so mush TO find fault with
and so much to wish for in such% great
big, dirty city as ours that sometimes
the good, SWEPT, modest facts connected
with our charitable installations are over
looked" saide visitor to the Wilson In
dustrial school and mission as she came
away from there the other day. The
building at ,125 st. Masks place was
. turnea nearly forty years %, nom .
factory into tho pleasant school house
which it now is. This school, which was
the first institution Of tho kind IN Amer
lea, is mot endowed and u maintained
entirely by Observation-Disclosures. Mrs..
Jonathan Stufges h The ARss. dreetes,
and many familiar nan,es aro On tho hss
Of managers. - - $780, a
The fnatrou of tho school Is Nks
Emily Huntington, the originator Of tAs
system of kitchen garden training, .
branch of work now carried On not
only at the Wilson school and elsewhere
in this city, but IN other American e3ties
and in Cshsds, England, Hslsnd. Scot
land and France. Miss 4uneington has
made the mission house her homo, and
here she watches day BY day tho results
sOf, the methods which she hes estah-
lished. . & Z. -
It is&iih Q fascinating interest that
one listens 10 the tale Of how by tho
I merest chance Miss Huntington, at
eighteen, just out of school and ready
to be ushered into fashions pleasures,
CHANGED to be taken by friend % vtsi3
ragged school," and how to only
daughter of fond parents put society
and. the .usu3l amusemeuts Of yustA
aside, and not in the same manner, bat
with the safne.motivs as her cousin, Fa-
Their Huntington, set herself about mis-
sion school work.
\ Nobody could work with Miss Hunt-
ington's energy and her capacity for or
ganizing without developing nov Mem
which should bring forth moro COM
plete work, 30 as time passed On and shs
gained experience, not only among the
poor, but with her own class, she nsds
various discoveries. Ono was ths* tho
leisure Of some of the young girls Of hse
acquaintance might readily be put to
good account, and another that kitchen
gardening might with profit be adapted
to the rich as well as tho poor.
She obtained the cooperation a some
of the mothers and the interest Of tho
girls, 50 that . meeting was called for
the purpose Of developing . plan Of
movement. Fifty girls met at the house
of one of the elder women. This was IN
1857. It was proved that most Of them.
no matter how well versed they were In
Latin and geometry, know absolutely
nothing about domestic sc&e0ce, 80 az
.rangements .were made for forming 0
normal class which should b divided
into companies, these companies 10 70
to the mission for regulsf days Of teach
ing So
These young women. as their psths
divided, removed 10 Boston, Chicago
and elsewhere and set up kitchen gar
dens of their own, with tho result that
the system has spread everywhere. II
might even be said with truth that the
other thought, that Of the Working
Girls clubs, emanated from this mis-
sion, for Miss Grace r. Dodge was one
of the fifty young women who Joined In
the work there, and It was NO doubt b.
cause of the experience she gained ss this
time her idea was conceived and fevel-
oped.
! The girls became kitchen GARDENERS
themselves, and afterwsrd, when mar
rage had placed some Of them In hones
of their own, they wrote TO the founder
of the system, you have no iAea hox
kitchen garden helps me withsmy sorv-
ants and my housekeeping. md 10
others it, ga1e tie means u livelihood
when Unforeseen UFsxSes 8 fUtune
made them dependent uDoo Neir swn
resources. 4
:. must b confessed thnt '0terhn
sardeua is . rather misleedh5 Hane,
for it. sugsests 10 many liaos :zA@o
vegetables arc srofp foe Gtcha s<@
When Miss Huntington va Asked SaDxt
the name, she said: at nsans fNygtean
by which all the intxicacies Of d1n.SS
science are taught-Sveepi45, aassks,
washing, ironing, waiting q 6bhA &c.
I thought little Of ehaR5ing tn nsms
at one time becauss it vas coafocnde4
with the term vegetable sosasa, but I
found nothing that Quite tuGo 10 Dases,
and soon discovered thak ~ fact that
the name had to b explained sevo II
additional importance" Sz -.
The school hours ere the sans hess -,
elsewhere-from 70 9. There RSchpA
200 girls, ranging in age from I've - ~
and there are the usual lessons d reuua-
ing, writing and axitAmstie, With cora
under the head 9 st.dy. 1ls tse,maa.
in the kitchen garden brsncbes u hSaB
else than systemakisel fosA u paay.
and this takes up propertionAte part a
the school day.-Nsw Yorh Tribune.
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