The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-01
Afternoon Session.

The afternoon session of the parlia-
ment was devoted to household econom-
/, les. The paper on the subject was pre-
pared by Mrs. Ella P. Hubbard of Los
Angeles.
Among the many valuable suggestions
and thoughts OF the excellent paper were
the following:
| Neither the very rich nor the very poor
are guilty OF much waste--the former
because OF inherited thrift, the latter
because they eat everything. The peoplt.
of moderate income living from hand to
mouth are most wasteful. Extravaganza
in foods is natural fault, springing
| from over production of food supplies,
but the arabic lands have been largely
| brought under cultivation, the great
F, stock ranges are becoming exhausted,
and the time is not far distant when our
exhausted resources will teach US the
folly of our waste. There are two plain
duties of the housewife: to look care
fully after the health OF her family, and
to live within her means. To keep the
household in good physical condition
there must be an ample supply of proper
materials, properly cooked. The object
of cookery is not alone to please the
palate, but to furnish the elements
necessary to the support of the body in
right proportion. The worst waste ia
not in what is thrown away, but in the
poorly cooked, indigestible, non assim-
liable foods furnished the body. "if
there is anything sadder than unrecog-
nizad genius it is the mig
understood stomach" The great de-
mand .is for scientific cookery.
A union in the kitchen of old fashioned
economy and new-iashioned chemistry
would redeem the world. Cooking
schools and the teaching of cooking in
the public schools can do much, but it
is from the schools Of domestic science
that we may hope most. From them
women go forth trained to the work of
the household as nurse is trained for
the hospital or man for his calling.
They will do much to dignity and ele-
vate the work which is now wickedly
thought to be degrading. When intel
ligence is demanded in the work, then
will the work be respectable. Wages
should be graded according to work.
Unwholesome food is sin against the
individual; waste of household supplies
is a sin against society. Nineteen
housekeepers out of 20 do their own
work. Life must be simplified in the
use OF all the labor-ssving devices pos.
sible.
Cooperative housekeeping was
touched upon, but the employment of
specialists in cleaning, baking and
other homework was considered more
practical. 4
Mrs. Hubbard described electrical
cooking as she saw it at the worlds fair,
and prophesied great relief in the near
future from the use OF electricity in the
kitchen.
Mrs. Hubbard closed her excellent
paper by saying: "When the modern
woman shall 80 shape her life that
neither the home nor the community is
robbed OF her moral or mental force
through her over physical exerton;
when her homs shall become a spot
where all virtues may take root for
the healing of the nations; when the
heart Of her husband may safely trust
in her; when her children grow to ma.
turity with sound minds and morals in
sound bodies, then may she indeed
realize that in looking well to the ways
OF her household che has fulfilled the
noblest lot that falls to woman. Then
may we hear no more of household
drudgery, nor that the housekeeper has
nothing to show Tor her work. While
the picture of the artist grows dim with
age, and the marble of the sculptor
crumbles, and the book of the suthor
mlldews on the shelf, her work shall
live, and of her it shall be said, as OF
that good housewife of old: Many
daughters have done virtuously, but
thou excellest them ALL"
DOMESTIC SERVICE.
Mrs. Mary d. Gould OF Los Angeles
opened the discussion. She said:
The problem of domestic service is not
one of recent date nor of local character.
From the days of our grandmothera
the position of mistress and maid has
been variable and in our rep dblic often
interchangeable.
The relations OF these two fsetars in