The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-07
THE HoME-MAkINo pRoslr.
BY Teaching the Girls . Refor,, =.
Housekeeping May be Wrongly,

BY Teaching the Girls . Refo,,
Housekeeping May he Wrought
Mrs. Eta Morse Hudders bold.
new key to the domestic problem. az.
Ia education. of course" she said ths
other day. But it is the education :,
our future, rather than our pressn.
servants. 1t concerns itself with IN
children, those who have nothing To nm
learn and no bad habits TO get rid .,
whose minds are still pliable and in
questionable. For example, bay.
found 1t an utter impossibility to teach
full grown woman how to hold n
broom properly, and not one full grown
woman in n hundred holds a broom
properly. She presses upon 1t and
holds it sideways and digs the dirt Nm
out of the carpet in q manner as revolt.
ing as it is impotent. What she shou,d
do is to hold the broom straight up ard
down, and sweep with short, light
quick strokes close to the carpet. II,
Just the same way with hundreds Of
other domestic details. Women ara
not only hopelessly ignorant of them.
but apparently are incapable of mas.
tering them unless the training begins
at an early age. My plan proposes to
establish cooking schools in all the
thickly settled dictricts of the CITY
in which school children may be taught
not only how to prepare foods in the
best way, but what foods to buy in or
der to attain the greatest amount Of
nutriment at the least cost. The prac.
teal force of the plan is at once appar.
emit, as an article on Our Girls in Tene-
ment Houses says: If we begin to
train little hands as well as little minds.
and wait long enough, we shall have
trained, il not reformed, grandmoth.
ers. The working girls clubs are do
ing good work, but they do not begin
on material early enough to achicva
the best results. 1t Is impossible to
overestimate the value of having the
earliest teaching correct To my
mind, it Is the solution of the domestic
problem, which is nothing more or
less than skilled service in the home.
by domestic problem however, I
do not alone mean the servant prob
lem That is, indeed. portentous
question, but not so portentous nor 50
important ms the domestic question.
When the latter Is solved it will mean
reform in hundred ways. More than
half the trouble of this world comes
from women not knowing how to be
homekeepers not housekeepers
though precious few of them are quail
flied for that = but perseryers and
cheerishers of the home. This is true
of all classes of society, but especially
OF the poorer classes. Give work.
ingman good dinner and insure him
quiet comfortable, do-as-he-pleases
evening, and he will be much less like
ly to frequent the liquor saloon. That
treads close upon the heels OF the tenn
perance question, and in much more
practical manner than most answers
to it do. But the wife must know
how to provide and prepare the dinner.
and also how to insure the evenings
comfort. All this constitutes home
making, an accomplishment that Is,
unfortunately, much out of fashion,
but which is the keystone to nothing
less than national prosperity. Tbs
is the object of our plan-home-mak
ing. OF course, our great and imper
alive need is funds. The manufae.
turers have already donated enough
appurtenances to equip several kitch-
ems, but we want to employ the most
competent teachers, and to do that
takes money. In time. we hope that
the same plan will be adopted by other
cities. Every community must see tho
value of promoting the home spirit
and that can only be done by making
homes attractive. Why, at present.
the average child Of the slums doesn't
know the meaning of the word home
N Y Sun.