The San Francisco call., 1898-05-08

the railroad tracks in West Oak
 land has been started what it is
 hoped will grow into great school
 of domestic science.
 Other sciences have been making great strides during the last hundred years, but this one, which lies at the center and foundation of life, is in its infant stage, comparatively.
 There are more divorces and boarding houses in the United States than in any other country, and in no other country in the world does domestic service stand on so low a plane We have got away from the old idea of lady and prefer to be a woman. I like better the old English derivation lady bread giver." and the picture it calls up of the lady of the manor giving bread to the poor, nursing the sick, caring for the aged and teaching the young on her husbands estate.
 It is the Duchess of Northumberland, I believe, who to hold her title must carve in the servants hall at least twice year. This knowledge of all gentler arts was the distinction between the lady and the parvenu.
 Now We are emancipated and pre- sumably enjoy a lot of other things, but still there are many women who realize that woman's work is the highest, the most refining, the most dlfhcuIt or all the worlds work
 Florence Nightingale opened the door for trained nurses. You are acquainted with the quiet. competent woman who takes charge in case of sickness noWa- days but remember the nurse who was the best, that poor sick and worried Jeannie Welsh Carlyle could find. See ing Mrs. Carlyle very weak and III, the nurse assured her. "Oh, l can lay folks out foin. when they're dead"
 If training and the worlds approval make such a change in the nurses pro fession in a few years, what may not be done in the simple necessary home ser vice?
 Four-f -ffths of American divorces are for financial causes When the woman is no longer expected to know by some d. vine intuition how to manage house and family any more than the man is to trust to Providence to support a family after he gets one, many of these un- happy homes will disappear. The dis contented mothers of children born with all the taints of wretched environ ment will no longer be a disgrace to American women.
 A good many years ago Miss Louise Emery made up her mind that she could not afford to wear away her life over the books of her brothers rnercan- 
 wearing her out; she realized that women are not physically fitted for business life.
 Going to Chicago she entered a train ing school for home missionaries. Much of her work was among the jailS and reformatory institutions. Study ing carefully the men and women and the boys and girls there she became convinced that more sin comes from ignorance and want of something bet ter to do than from depravity.
 But how to help these women whose best instincts were either degraded or totally destroyed was the question that that beset her. It was like putting new patches on old garments or new wine into old battles; it was heart sickening.
 Huntington, daughter of Bishop Hunt ington of New York, with her model class in kitchen garden.
 Miss Emery found there what she had been looking forward to- She gave up refornlatory work and began the formative. A prosperous school in St. Paul with between two and three hum dred pupils was the first result
 The school once well started required her personal attendance no longer, so she determined to come West. At Den yer in the new Woman's Club building a large portion of the building was de- voted to class rooms for kitchen gar den.
 In Salt Lake City is another school Iii all these schools the instruction in kitchen garden is given by the ladies