The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-17
GIRLS In THE HOME.
WHY OUR DAUGHTERS FAIL AS MODEL
HOUSEWIVES.

Greek Roots and Latin Derivatives.
There is an old saying that the sons
Of great men are never the equals OF
their fathers. which may be accounted
for by some reversiOnary order of nature
or by the lack of the self education and
developing circumstances which had
formed the characters of their parents.
What is true of the sons of remarkable
men is also sometimes equally true OF
the daughters of women who are eff
cient in the home and the reasons are
often easy to discover.
The vigorous and competent mistress
of a household who, through long and |
faithful service, has become as expert in
its management and oversight as the |
head of banking house or business firm |
in these respective positions sometimes
makes the mistake of exacting no assist
ance from her daughters, thereby de-
priving them of valuable knowledge,
which might prove to be of incalculable
benefit in later years 1T is easier to
do thing myself than to show any one
how to do it, says one housewife An
other thinks that her grown up daugh-
tiers must not be tried with any house
hold details, as their time must be re-
served for their music, their French,
their dancing lessons and the claims of
society.
She unselfshly desires that this time OF
life may be period of perfect happiness
and thinks that girls of so much intel
ligence as her own are possessed OF VIII,
when occasion requires, develop every
necessary qualification for model house
wives and mothers Of families. But,
alas, this is not always true, and the
short sighted kindness of the mothers
sometimes proves the vain regret of the
daughters i'll later years 1t is mistake
to fancy that this period of life should
be devoted to ceaseless dressing and
pleasure or even to intellectual culture,
TO the total exclusion of all other
knowledge. The girl who is fitting her
self to earn her living in any way will
be benefited by preliminary course of
domestic training, which (for girls
marry who plan different careers for
themselves may serve her III good
stead. and the girl who locks forward
to matrimony as the natural desidera-
tum for woman is handicapped and
i'll fitted at the very outset of her career
with this education lacking. There are
many women who III some critical do
nestle situation would thankfully part
with some of their knowledge of Greek
roots and Latin derivatives for little
skill in nursing delicate infant and
practical information about preparing
it's food on which its life depends in
some transition period, or even in some
trying episode in the kitchen, to be
able to make loaf of good bread, cup
| of fragrant coffee and to give intelli'
gent directions about the preparations
| for dinner to the chance Milesian whom
she may be forced temporarily to accept
| as the presiding occupant of the kitch-
en-. There is nothing like little prac-
teal experience in household as il
| other, matters. The girl who has had
no training of this kind, when she has
home of her own, may suffer painful.
" from her inexperience, with currants
that will not "jell" and loaves of heavy
cake which she is forced to burn to hide
her ignorance
In we'll to do family which | once
knew, where the mother made all the
purchases (Which, by the way, is alsC
excellent practice for the daughters)
the girls were expected to take turns
each week in the care and oversight o.
the large parlors, sweeping them with {
carpet sweeper, brushing the plush fur
niture and busting carefully the books
and ornaments, and in the ordering, su
perintendence and actual making OF the
desserts for dinner each day and cake fol
supper or luncheon, and the exercise II
the care of the rooms was just as bene
fetal to the health as some OF the gym
nastics so fashionable nowadays, ant
the practice and skill acquired in tn
making of cakes and dessert were quit
as interesting as and a great deal NOR
useful than much of the fancy work OF
which young women spend so mucl
time and eyesight.
To know how to make golden, ligh
sponge cake without the use OF soda
baking powder, good, wholesome gin
gerbread, delicate, nutritious dessert
and jellies, is an accomplishment not T.
be despised by even an intellectual girl
for the stuff sold by many bakers unde
these names is in comparison as chaff t
wheat. 1t is true that there are now eS
changes where these may be purchase
in many places, but one may be situate
far from any of them or the means ma
! be lacking to purchase them.
/ knew one girl, al only daughter
who was brought up IL "a luxuriou
, home, where a lloihCr aud two aunt
carried on the most ;Qrisito ystcm {
. housekeeping, a.Ccd by the lest scTrSai
that money coa.a .ct.Io I.-e GaG%t
ter either inkcIit'Is a. .CcG.Cd G. inih.h
unconscio..alr 81 ,Gre a al To
, details Of the ae t.DtitAt C.
partmen,s OF tie .... noid. the Il
stairs work, ,hc k.'cilcS, The Laundry
for, although as a gi!l lie was shi7lae
from evcry tuae0. Nhen SIC wSs Il a.
head of her cy---::. toascl,.,. she bccanl