Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-08-11
DOMESTIC SCIENCE.



Department Of vomen's Progress TO Ne
Seen at the worid's Fair.
Domestic science Is subject Of great
and growing interest to the community.
1t seems to me that one Of the most de-
hghtful features Of woInan's advance in
all lines ia the compelling Of better
methods in the home, for with broader
views and better opportunities women
are beginning to see that '.the old way
Is not always the best way; that the con-
ditlons Of life for women have changed.
thanks to the noble women who many
years ago ventnred into new ways, hold
ing the ground won SO bravely tin
women should recognize the newer, bet
ter way, till today women are awake.
and at Chicago, under the leadership Of
Mrs. Potter Palmer and her staff Of
women. Lucy Stone, Mary A. Liver
more, Julia Ward Eowe, Ednah d.
Cheney, Susan 3. Anthony, Mrs, stan
ton and their comrades, viii see as never
before the power Of women manifested
In public work.
Domestic acience will be illustrated IN
the department Of liberal arts in Chi
cago by an exhibit of the New England
kitchen work This work, which is sci
entlfic and economical in character. VIZ
developed by Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel
OF Michigan and Mrs. Ellen H. Richards
OF the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology. Cooking il done by gas and the
Aladdin oven.
In the Women's building at Chicago
there viii be model kitchen, where
cooking school methods will be shown.
and modern kitchen fittings will prove
how really artistic practical kitchen
can be-
Domestic science, which covers the
sanitary, hygienic and chemical depart-
ments of life, is most fully represented
by the work Of Mrs. Abel, Mrs. Rich
ards, and Miss Marion Talbot of Chi
cago university. professor devoted to
the teaching Of this work to classes Of
men and women. Miss Talbot. q daugh-
ter of DR.. |. T. Talbot of Boston. con-
Quoted the domestic science work at
Wellesley college before her caIl to Chi
cago in the spring of 1892. Schools and
colleges are adding this work to their
course OF study very rapidly, fact
which promises much for the future
housekeeper. Girls cannot graduate
from the public schools of Boston unless
they have taken the course in cooking.
Through the generosity of Mrs. Mary
Hemenway the first public school kitch-
en- in tSe United States was opened in
the Starr King schoolhouse in Boston
during the vacation school term of 1885.
This work was in charge of Miss ANY
Homans, now principal of the nor
NAL school of cookery at 9 Appleton
street. The public school kitchens of
the city of Boston are under the direct
charge of Miss Annabel Hope. charm
ing little English woman, a niece of Rev.
Brooke Hereford.
Inc Boston cooking school founded by
Mrs. Samuel 7. Hooper. well known in
charitable work, is center of good in
fuence at Ia fremont street. under the
direction of Mrs. Dearborn. while the
department of domestic science of the
Boston Young Women's Christian asso-
citation, 40 Berkeley street, under the
supervision of Miss Anna Barrows. ia
broad in scope, practical and successful.
The Cooking Teachers club of Boston
was organized in 1892 under the presi-
dency of Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln. The
mem bers must be graduates of cooking
schools. There is an honorary member
ship OF those invited to Join on account
of their connection with domestic in
terests.
The Columbian Association of House
keepers, whose president is Mrs. John
Wilkinson of La Sale avenue, Chicago.
are doing grand work which will mate
rialize at the Worlds fair. Mrs. Wilkin-
son is New England woman, a daughter
of picturesque and historic DeerfeId.
This housekeepers' association possesses
practical value for all women, and as
the membership covers all parts of the
country it proves a powerful lever in
raising the tone of domestic problems.
Miss Juliet Corson will have charge of
New York's exhibit Of cooking schools at
the Worlds fair. This exhibit is to be in
the New York state building and is un-
der the direction of the New York state
board of woman managers of the Column
bian exposition. Miss Corson spent the
early years of her life in Boston, in the
charming district of Mount Pleasant,
and her New England training has de-
veloped into grand practical work
Marion A. Mcbride. in Boston Woman's
Journal