Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-05

sion and afording opportunity for Sc
lection, sociables are held each week at
the mission house, where the boys and
girls may meet and become acquainted,
and when any Indian boy shows
special preference for any particular
Indian girl the two enamored ines are
allowed to meet each other alone in the
parlor on another evening in the week,
carefully c%haperoned by one OF the
teachers. The woman whose province
1t is to perform this delicate and inter-
estlng duty assures you that in spite OF
the presence of the third party the low
ers are very demonstratlve and afec-
tionate.
Now, among the Indian boys at Sitka
there was at one time a lad named Pc
ter, who had formerly been at Mr.. Dun
cans boys mission at Metlakatla. In
due course of time Peter fell in love
with an Indian girl named Polly, court
ed her in the appointed way, and mar
fied her. OF course the first thing az
ter the wedding Peter wanted to take
his wife to the old mission and let the
Metlakatla boys see what q nice girl
she was, The permission was granted,
and the wedding journey was made on
the steamer down to the old home.
Once arrived there Peter went
into the old workshop, and Pol
ly, for want OF something better
to do, went into the kitchen, made or
der out Of chaos, and cooked a dinner for
Mr.. Duncan, the like of which he had
not tasted in years. Mr.. Duncan Is a
man of decided views and strictly old
school ideas. He did believe that an
Indian boy could be converted n
taught to be a law-2oiding, self-sup-
porting citizen. He did not believe,
like a great many other worthy men,
that an Indian girl, or any other girl,
could be- taught anything. he hal lived
for years with his boys, eating food pre-
pared by himself or by them. The din
ner was a revelation to him. He de-
manded to know who perpetrated the
surprise. Polly acknowledged herself
the sinner. The result was that when
Polly went home to Sitka Mr.. Duncan
sent six Indian girls with her. There
are eighteen girls from the Metlakatla
Mission now at Sitka, and the only
reason there are not more is that the
women at Sitka cannot accommodate
them.
Tho moral that adorns this tale is
this: II every woman's college incor-
pOrated q department where household
economies were taught scientifically
the fathers would see more sense and
reason in giving their daughters a col
lege education. 1t is true that mems
colleges do not require a course In car
pentry or tailoring, or any Of the prac-
tical arts, but why should they? You
can hire a good carpenter, you can buy
your clothing at a good tallor's, but you
can neither buy nor hire the fine exec
utive ability, the good judgment, and
tact required Of a ora who has a
house to keep. ever with servants to
Go the work. You may question why a
woman, any more than a man, should
learn to do all this. There is no better
answer given than the woman's reason,
because IT'S So" The very woman that
asks it most fiercely and grandly in her
graduation essay, when she finds the
man she likes puts her questioning
LslNb, JANUS up hCA OulhShy Nuu "lNASS
she knew less about comic sections and
more about the servant problem and
drainage. Our answer 10 the why is
this: Men nave been smart enough TO
get their work classified and arranged,
so they can hire it all done. Women
are several centuries behind them in
this.
The other answer to the why is that
woman's work in the house is Of such
a fine and advanced order that no one
can be found to do it satisfactorily
until housekeeping is made a
profession 10 be taught in the highest
schools In the land, and honored ABOVE
all others In the reward paid for 1t. Co.
operation has been and Is and will be a
| failure until women have some place
where they can be educated for ii as
they are for nursing, doctorinC, teach
ing and the ministry. 1t is a significant
fact that at the Congress on Household
Economics in Chicago some OF the
brightest papers were read by college
women
On the general subject Of rights
and duties of individuals in the
home the speakers were Annie Howell
Barns, President OF the Association OF
Collegiate Alumn!a, and Helen Hiscock
Backus, ex-President Of the same or
ganization and before her marriage a
professor at Vassar. The practical ap-
plication Of household science vas
presented by Prof. Lucy Salmon,
of Vassar; competition and domestic
service, by Prof. Katherine Conan, of
Wellesley College; the necessity OF
saving the time Of housekeepers by
keeping engagements punctually, by
| Mary Roberts Smith, OF Stamford Uni
versity. The record reads like the
promise OF the Millennium. 1t was a
man in northern New York who said
| that the only thing he could see that his
| daughter had learned when she came
back from school was how to eat an
| orange with a teaspoon, and he thought
he could have taught her thaNat nome
for less than $500 a year; and, indeed,
much OF the instruction gained, ever
woman finds in the practical work OF
| life, whether in writing or homemak'
ing, or the practice Of a profession, is
about as little use, IL it isn't a decided
detriment, as the graceful art Of eating
an orange with a spoon.
A VIOLENT TORMENT.