Evening star., 1896-01-18
and a channg dish to learn anythins-a

and chafng dish to learn anything-a
woman can teach.
At the conclusion of the lesson the pupils
washed their own dishes, and put them up.
This washing and replacing Of q few plates
Is all the training students get in the work
OF keeptng a kitchen clean. They are
taught how to make a fire, and by turns
they fave the care Of the range. But for
all the hard, dirty work a maid is provided.
the attitude of the domestic science grad
uate toward securing and scrubbing being
Senator, who was charged with not being
able to spell. OF course, he couldn't spell,
he said. But what of it? He'd hire some
- Il oil that could.
Drudge Still Needed.
That the success of the new cook in the
higher walks of the kitchen still requires
the services Of a drudge below her Is not
so bad apparently, until we perceive that
domestic science studied in this relation to
the actual conditions of the home means
no relief where a limited income requires
q maid of all work or the housewife her
self do everything.
Baking Powder and Milk.
Subsequently I Joined a class of house
keepers during a lesson in baking powder
This went most elaborately into the chem
istry Of the subject and was followed by a
practice lesson in biscuit making. Follow
ing this I sat with a class in the normal
course and listened to lecture on milk
which began with the cow treated of its
diseases. departed thence to the stable, de-
fined the meteorological terrors lurking
there. then MIXED the cow, after sterilizng
the cans, and finally with further sugges-
tions OF bacteria en- route deposited the
mix on the doorstep of the kitchen. Thence
1t was diverted to the laboratory and
chemically analyzed, it's elements exhibited
In separate glass bottles. The milk was
| then taken up in the kitchen again. Pas
| keeping it were forthcoming, and next it
| was converted scientifically into butter and
! cheese. chemical analysis of each OF
| these products was shown In glass bottles,
| possible adulterations were disclosed and
| the nutritive value of milk, butter and
| cheese figured out in accurate percentages
| OF prote:d, carbohydrates, fats and min
| erals.
The Effect on the Average Woman.
The effect of all this on the average wo-
| mans mind would be simply to drive her
crazy with a sense of increased duties and
responsibilities. To know that there are
220 different kinds of microbes likely to
assail ones vitals in milk, to know that il
! milk Is sterilized too high it is unhealthy
and that if it isn't sterlized nigh enough
| 1t will probably kill the baby-why, the ill.,
tellect that can calmly know much and
| act under 1t amid all the other trials thai
| beset housekeeper must he unhoiy in its
mime.
A knowledge of chemistry and bacteriol
osy applied to the home is of immense
beneht to housekeeper but the study OF
| these subjects for it's own sake is so fas
clnatng that woman going into 1t is APP
| to lose sight Of domestic needs and allow
her excellence in the kitchen to fall shor
of anything in science
But while domestic science as she d
taught had filled me with encouragement
witnessing the method in chemistry In tn.
| presentation of nutritive values, in the
natter of dietaries and in the manifesto
| lon mad that the new cook Is to be su
rerior to housework after she arrives wher
went to lunch at Drexel and ate gradual,
soup, postgraduate fish balls, Junior celer,
salad and senior coftee-ahi the real proc
OF aomestic science Is In the eating. after all
| PAULINE PRY