The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-11
MORE SCHOOL FAOS.
Cooking and Sewing Have Been Added
to the Curriculum.

to the Curriculum.
The friends of the proposed innova-
ton contend that the great majority
of girls who attend the public schools
in these grades will eventually become
wives and mothers, and that public
policy requires that they should be ac-
quainted with the ordinary duties OF a
household. 1t is pointed out that IN
the neighborhood of $45, 900 has been
appropriated for manual training in
the city schools for boys, and that II
is only fair and just that the girls
should be afforded the same opportu-
nifty for practical training.
At present there are three public
schools i'm Chicago in which cooking
and sewing are taught with professed-
ly good results. These are the Ham
mond school, Twenty-first street and
California venue the Charles koz-
! minski school. Fifty-fourth street and
Ingleside avenue, and the James NJ.
| Thorp school,. Eig~hty-ninth street and
Superior avenue. The cooking and sew
ing adjuncts of these schools are SAID
to be economically administered and To
be not only popular. but productive or
wholesome results. 1t is to these schools
tina the friends of the proposed inno-
walton pointed in arguing its practical
bility before the members of the board
of education.
Recently President Halle appointed a
committee to report upon the feasibil-
ity Of the plan and present
| dations should their report be faVora-
BILE TO the proponents of the cooking
sewing plan. The committee consisted
of Mrs. Evelyn A. Frake, Thomas Bre-
nan. II. II. Gross, Mrs. Ella G.. Hun
and Mrs, Caroline X. Sherman.
The committee prepared its report
and recommended the appropriation OF
$25, 900 for the establishment of 10 cen
ters." to be opened in September. The
sum was reduced to $4,000, bur the
plans will be carried out as fully as
possible. They will be so situated that
four or five schools will be able TO at
tend them, each sending its classes on
one or two days in the week.
1t is admitted on all hands that the
success of the venture will depend
largely upon the ability of those who
administer it to keep the system from
falling a prey to fancy sewing and
fancy cooking. This, it appears, has
been the weakness of cooking and sew
ing schools in other cities, and in this
connection il may be said that Chicago
is no exception. Thomas Brennan was
the only member of the committee &c
oppose the plan, but he finally consent
ed to agree to the substance OF tht
committees report.
Il have always been opposed to fads.
said Mr.. 1t costs a great ued
to maintain our schools, and there Is
no interest in Chicago which is of great
er importance. The average period OF
school attendance is less tina foul
years and the poor child can i'll AFFORD
to become a victim of experiments
whatever may be the ultimate success
Seven or eight years ago sewing SCHOOLS
were established in this city. The or
iginal intention was to then
economically and teach young girls L
make plain dresses, darn stockings, hen
handkerchiefs and do the ordinary sew
ing which is found necessary in the or
binary household. The fact was, thes'
schools degenerated into institution
for instruction in crocheting and fame,
work. consequently the scheme wa
abandoned.
Nov. l have no doubt that tn
board of education would be rendering
the girls of Chicago a service by pro
yfding centers i'm which plain SEWING
and cooking could be taught. Bu
what will be the practical effect OF thes'
ventures? Every girl ought to know
how to bake bread. and biscuit, broi
a steak, boil potatoes and make pies
she also ought to know how TO do plan
sewing, but when ii comes to frills