New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-02
MRS. j. F. STEvENSON's VIEWS.
EDUCATION IN DOMESTIC BRANCHES
NECESSARY FOR ALL WOMEN.

At the recent meeting of the International Young
Womens Christian Association in Montreal the
speech made by Mrs. J. F. Stevenson. president OF
the Montreal Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion. was most interesting. She spoke on the I'M
portance OF preparing educated young women to
fill the positions now opening elsewhere for teach.
ers In any and all branches Of domestic service.
She said NO one would deny that considerable
proportion Of the life OF the average woman was
domestic: It not domestic cooking alone that
required. but knowledge Of domestic arts gen.
orally required In order to take them through
life, as most Of them in the future to be the
head OF their own homes. Here Is schedule OF
what is required In the Montreal High School,
which may be taken as a fair sample OF the cur
rculum for Canadian schools for girls. both public
and private: Latin. French. German English lit
erature. English grammar. English composition.
history, Canadian history. geography. arithmetic.
mathematics. chemistry. Scripture. history ac-
counts. Drawing. spelling. elocution wriuhs'
botany algebra and geometry. And then, thcy
married them and turned them into the kitchen'
and then wondered what in the world was the mat
ter" For herself. Mrs Stevenson said that as
young girl she was never allowed to go into the
kitchen at home and what she had suffered during
the first year Of her married life was something
Many young married women were more ignorant
than their cooks and to illustrate THIS sne zee
butchers to order meat for dinner she hardly
s ss asked to sSs Of Put
two of them She also related the case Of plucky
little woman In the country who was In guam
dairy as to how to have her husbands shirts iaun.
dered for him. Well. she set to work and washed
and starched and roned them herself. but when
the time came to put them on II was found tnat
they starched all over.
You see, out OF much tribulatlon she nsa % g
learn" added Mrs. Stevenson what we want u
to train teachers who will be able to teach others
She quoted Mrs. Caryles experience OF long age
and her struggle over the making OF her first LOAF
OF bread. recalling the suffering during that night
OF loneliness when. as Mrs. Carlyle herself tells
1t: my loaf got put into the oven at the tune tnat
myself ought to have been put to bed. And re-
NAMED the only person not asleep in a house In
the middle of a desert. (Thls was at Craigenput-
took, Carlyle's Scotch FARM One o'clock struck.
and then g. and still was sitting there, my WHOLE
body aching with WEAKNESS, my heart aching with
a sense Of forlornness and degradation that l. who
had been so petted at home whose comt0ts nsS
been studied by everybody In the house. VINO nad
never been required to do anything but cuitvas}
my mind, should have to pass all those hours OF
the night watching loaf Of bread which might I1s
maddened me. till I laid my head down on the
table and sobbed aloud"
How many girls concluded Mrs Stevenson. arS
in the same position was Mrs. Carlyle! gn
should be educated that she can face her every
day life with and comfort