Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-08
KITCHEN TRAINING.
4 WORK WHICH HAS HELPED MANY
POOR AND RICH FAMILIES.

What "ilitchcn Harden Trnining." Nicans,
Nov II Was started aud by Whom.
Sis uuEtington's urcnt work Tor iior
Les Fortunate sisters Ia Iig city.
"There Is 10 much To find fault with
and so much 20 wish for in such great
big, dirty city ~ ours that sometimes
the good, sweet. modest facts connected
with our chnritablc Institutions arr over
looked said u visitor to tho Wilson ln-
dus,rinl school and mission ~ she came
away from thcro the other day. The
building nj 1875 81. Marks place was
turned, nearly forty years ago, from n
factory into The pleasant school hslso
which u now is. This school which was
tho first institution Of the kind IN Amer
ira. Is not endowed and Is maintained
entirely by voluntary contribution. Mrs.
Jonathan Sturgcs Is the first director,
and many familiar names arc ON the list
OF mauagerg.
Tie matron Of the school Is Miss
Emily Huntington, the originator Of the
system Of kitchen garden training, a
branch OF work now carried on not
only at tho Wilson school and elsewhere
IN this city. but IN other American cities
aud In Canada, England, Ireland, Scot
land and France. Miss Huntington has
mado tho mission house hcr home. aud
here she watches day by day tho results
Of tho methods which sho has cstab-
lishcd.
It "a with a fascinating interest that
ono listens to tho tale uf how hy the
mcrcst chance Miss Huntington. ut
eighteen. just ont 0f school aud ready
10 bo ushcrcd into fashions pleasures,
CHANGED to bo taken by friend to visit
ragged school, and how the only
daughter OF fond parents put society
and tho usual umuscmcnts of youth
aside, and not In tho samo manner, hut
with the Same motive a. her cousin, Ia
thor Huntington. set herself about mis-.
sion school work.
Nobody coald work with Miss Hunt
ington's energy aud her capacity for or.
ganizinB without developing now ideas
which should bring forth moro com.
plcto work, so pa time passed on and shr
gained experience, not only among tho
poor, but with her own class, She mndC
various discoveries. ono was that tho
leisure of some Of the young girls OF hen
acquaintance might readily 10 put e
good account, and another that kitchen
gardening might with profit bc adapted
10 the rich ns we'll as the poor.
She obtained tho cooperation Of somt
Of the mothers and the interest Of th.
girls 30 that meeting wag called fol
tho purpose Of developing n plan oI
movement. Fifty girls met NJ the hous,
Of one Of the elder women. This was /,
1867. II was proved that most Of Thorn
no matter how wcll yerscd they were IL
Latin and geometry, knew absolutely
nothing about domestic science, so an
Tangomena were made for forming
normal class which should DO divided
into companies. these companies to &,
10 tho mission for regular days Of teach
ing.
These young women, ns thcir path
divided, removed TO Boston, Chcag,
and elsewhere aud set up kitchen gar
dons OF their own, with the result tina
The system has spread everywhere.
might even be said with truth that tn
other thought, that Of tho Worldn;
Girls clubs, rmanatod from this mis-
sion, for Miss Grace II, Dodge was on
OF the fifty young women who joined il
tho work there, and II was no doubt he
cause OF the experience she gained at thi
time her idea was conceived und doycl
oped.
Tho girls became kitchen gardener
themselves, and aftorwnrd, when mar
Tiago had placed some of Thorn in homo
OF their own, they wrote to the foundo
Of tho system, You have no idea ho,
kitchen garden helps me with my sorN
ants ana my housekeeping" and +
Others u gave tho means Of liyelihoo
when unforeseen reyorses Of forum
made them dependent upon their owJ
resources.
lt must DO confessed that "htche
garden Is u rather misleading namt
for It suggests TO many place whor
vegetables nto grown for kitchen us,
When Miss Huntington was asked abou
Che name, she said; ut means q systoi
bS which all tho intricae!CS Of domesti