The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-03-31
KITCHEN TRAINING.

hIICHLINI ahAINLNu
A WORK WHICH HAS HELPED MANY
] PooF AND F'cs FAMlrs'
What 'sKitchen Garden rrainins" Hsaaa
How It Was Started and BY Whom.
Mis- Huntington's Great wori. for Her
Lei; 'r'.sss's s'''s's in ]. Mig O''.
"There is so much TO find fault with
and so much to wish for In sucha great
big, dirty city asF ours that sometimes
the good, sweet modest facts coAneeted
with our chsEitable instftutfons are over
looked, !" said i visitor to the Wilson En-
dustrial school and mission Is She came
away from there the other day. The
building at 125 st. Malk's place was
turned, nearly forty. years a0e, nom Q
factory into tho pleasant school house
which it now Is. This school, which was
the first insitution Of the Kind IN Amer
lea, is MOT endowed and u maintsined
entirely ~ voluntaiycsntklbutiea. Hrs.
Jonathan Sturges - The AFss. direstse,
and many Familiar naun6s s<e On tho list
Of msnagers. - ~ -
The fnatrou of tho Schod b Mhs
Emily Huntington, the originator Of ~
system Of kitchen garden training, .
branch of work now carried On NOT
only at the Wilson school end elsewhere
in this city, bot IN other Amerioan e3tiss
and in Cahsds, England, Es1snd. Scot
land and France. Miss HunAngton has
made the mission house her homo, and
here she watches day BY day tho results
sof. the methods which she has es*aA-
lished. - ,s
!. 1t is&iih Q fascinating interest that
one listens 20 the tale Of how BY Tho
merest chance Hiss Huntington, at
eighteen, just ont Of school and ready
to be ushered into fashions pleasures,
CHANGED to be taken BY . friend % vtsi3
a ragged school," and how to only
daughter Of fond parents put society
and the usual amusements Of yuutA
ASIDE and not in tho same manner, bat
with the sefhermotivs as her cousin, Fs-
Their Huntington, set herself about mis-
sion school work.
! .Nobody-oould work with Hiss Hum
ington's energy and her capacity for Or
ganizing without developing nov Me0
which should bring forth moro COM
plete work, % as time passed On and 40
gained experience, not only among tie
poor, but with her own class, she mAds
various discoveries. Ono was thst tte
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 a. well as tho poor. ~ SD
/. 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 woman. THIS was IN
1867. It was proved that most Of them.
no matter how well versed they were In
Latin and geometry, know absolutely
nothing about domestic scienoe, % ar
.raugements .were made Tor forming Q
normal class which should b divided
into companies, these companies 10 80
to the mission for resulsf days Of tesch-
ing. &saE .Fs. ss ...
These young women, as their psths
divided, removed 10 Boston, Chicago
and elsewhere and set up kitchen eaR-
dens of their own, with. the 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 Il. Dodge was one
of the fifty young women who Joined In
the work there, and It was no doubt b.
causeof the experience she gained 1t this
time her idea was conceived and 6evel-
,oped.
! The girls became Kitchen GARDENERS
themselves, and afterward, when mar
rage had placed some Of them n homes
of their own, they wrote TO the founder
of the system, you have no Aes hoe
KITCHEN garden helps me withlny serv.
ants and nay housekeeping. nd 10
others it. gaSe TIE means u hvselhood
when unforeseen U<useS q fUtune
made them dependent uDoa tbeir s~n
resources ..- -.
I :. must bs confused thne sNterlzn
gardenH- is . rather misieedA5 nane,
for i. sugsests 70 many . Iiaes :s
vegetables are sro<a Aus hitcha .ss>
When Miss Huntingtou ~ tGked SADus
the name, she aid: at ne0s taystean
by which all the int<icscies If dnaR
science are taught-EweepiaS A.sttss,
washing, ironing, waiting q t.biA &c.
] thought little Of ehanJAG H. nans
at one time becauss it vas coAf0NdsA
with the term vegetable sardsa, but
found nothing thss quite tu6 10 DAses,
and soon discovered thAG ~ fsos that
the name had TO b eapleined geve n
additional importance" Ss
The school hours aRe the sans hss q
.elsewhere-from 70 8. There Rscbps&
200 girls, ranging in Age from I've OtsA
and there are the usua lessons d Teua-
ing, writing and axitAmstic. VhAh eomo
under the head 9 stady. 1ls ts(3ni.0
in the kitchen garden brsnches i M
else than . systemafisea 1osa 1 4ay.
and this takes up . proportiooate part a
the school day.-Nsw Yorh THbum.