The Penn's Grove record., 1893-08-25
HOUSEHOLD L
SCIENCE.
By Morton A. Mcbride.

Whatever touches home life with
added comfort, health and pleasure
deserves not only recognition, but
careful consideration, and to-day the
domestic problems are receiving more
attention than ever before; their treat
ment comes within the province OF
science, and the solution of many pro
blems gives the housekeeper O simpler,
more direct method OF work, rendering
Il possible to meet the demands Of life,
with their growing ramiications, by
the application OF exact methods. The
training OF school children to exact
work proves one OF the most important
factors in the solution OF the questions
which belong distinctly to homo life,
for the mistress must understand her
work II her assistants are to produce
the best results.
One Of the most important features
of political economy is domestic
science, for the strength and power of
q nation is in exact proportion to the
purity and strength and power OF the
home; and the home, to be powerful,
must be healthy in tone, both mental
and physical, and physical health is
based on pure food OF the highest
grade, 30 prepared for consumption
that the greatest possible amount of
nutrition shall be secured for the sup.
port of life. This work is of para
mount Importance to the individual
and the community, for people well fed
are capable Of greater service in every
way, and with good health ZONES a
general lifting Of the whole trend OF
daily life.
The Agricultural Congress at the
Hague passed resolutions tending to
improve the food supply of the world.
The central idea is to have national
boards in each country, and local
boards who would at once notify those
in charge at various points IL impure
food was found in the channels of COM
merce.
The question of pure food legislation
is being agitated in all parts Of the
country, and many leading dealers are
placing their goods firmly before the
public, determined to follow such pre-.
sentation by hard and thorough work,
which must result in crowding out the
cheap and impure goods which have O
foothold in some places.
Domestic science in New England
centers n educational work, and
It's influence is felt all over the coun-
try. In Boston girls cannot graduate
from the public schools unless they
have taken the course in cook
ing. The work Of the Massachu-
setts Institute Of Technology, di-
rected by Mrs. Ellen Richards,
hes had a deep and broad foundation
for solving the problems of good food
at low prices, as demonstrated ct the
New England Kitchens, 142 Pleasant
street and Salem street, Boston, also
on Hudson street, New York City. In
these kitchens cooking is done by gas
and with the Aladdin Oven, which
Mrs. Richards calls 'the sole accurate
instrument known to cookery" House
keepers are deeply indebted to Hon.
edward Atkinson OF Boston for his
production Of the Aladdin Oven, an
oven of such construction that its
working capacity is simply marvellous,
and its simple construction commends
1t to any one who will give it q test.
Food of any mount placed in this
scientific oven will fairly "cook itself"
il the most simple plan is followed.
Food must be prepared as for any kind
of cooking, bnt the use Of earthenware
or q fine quality of baking dish is i'm
portant-important at all times-more
important il possible when long, slow |
applications OF heat are to be made.
When the food is prepared to place it
In the oven at the right time is the all
important item, a very triie with which 1
to tax the memory when the alternative |
is a hot. humid morning in the kitchen, \
a weary mother or o~verbeated, cross
servant because some favorite dish Is
ruined or extra duties demanded alb
sence from the kitchen. ALI this
trouble is done away with by the !
use of the Scientific Cooker, for /
the large box-like affair which stands IN
your kitchen is q perfect pIcture OF
calm content, and the kerosene lamp
which burns beneath 1t is not burning |
to the full capacity. but if you touch
the metal bands of the oven you will
lie surprised at the heat they hold, and
peep into the oven will satisfy you
that cooking is the only business on
hand, and the dinner will come out
luscious. each dish holding its own
particular qualities fully developed, |
without any hint of the other articles
with which it has been closeted for
This over has been used over
a kerosene lamp or a gas burner with
equal success, so that the oven will
equally the demand of. city or
country homes. 1t it is certainly the
most important invention of the pres
emit day and Of paramount Importance
to women.
Large ovens for hotels and families,
smaller ones at low prices for very
families, or for the thousands
who must economic and yet must have
good food, the securing OF which
would do moro for morality and hap
piness than anything else could do, |
while the Importance OF good food at
low prices in large quantities would go
q long way toward solving the vexed
question Of intemperance, an evil which
can be driven out almost completely |
from the homes of the poor by the in
of simple food scientifically
At the Rhode Island State Fair in |
there will be a demon
kitchen, 1O0x30 feet, fitted
the newest goods which house, |
keepers are interested in. Cooking of |
plain food will be shown in various
forms, choosing the food preparations
which are easily prepsredand possesses
particular qualities OF nutriment and
digestibility.
Cooking will be done by gas OF oil, |
and cooking utensils will be given par
prominence. For bread boards, |
bowls, bread trays, water