The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-15
Tho Kitchen Rises.

Bad news for the a~nti.monopolists comes
from Missouri. AS the Hon. Bill STONE
sometime Governor Of that State and still
trumpet Major In the Bryan brigade, would
say, "The cloven hoof of the octopus is
s~trangling our domestic hearths with it's
upas.tree fange." We learn from the st.
Louis Republic that ian enthusiastic gath.
ering Of servant girls from all over the city
assembled in their hall at 1923 North
Broadway last night to discuss the social
problem and establish q constitution and
bylaws for the government of their order"
The object of the now trust Is set forth
sufficiently in the preamble of the consti-
tuition
"The man object OF the Domestic Science Club 10
TO render all possible assistance to the advancement
OF domestic service. and to bring about q better
knowledge OF tho true meaning OF domestic service.
We hold that IL is the sacred duty OF every working
woman 10 work for the emancipation of their fellow
beings from ignorance and class consciousness.
"we recognize our limitations and feel the time
has como for us to organize that We may no longer
be classed as menials, but that as the health of tho
whole family depends upon tho despised kitchen. We
demand TO DO recognized with all so-callcd inteili.
gent labor, and our efforts shall be TO educate and
agltate until all domestic work will receive its true
place in the world OF labor"
The Domestic Science Club means to
found a cooperative home where domestics
out of employment may hoard and lodge.
Boarding houses will cry out at this devel-
opment of the trust. The club will also
establish a school of domestic science and
n free employment bureau. The intelli-
gencc offices will lament these forms of
combination.
So far as it Is permissible in the days of
a~nti.monopoly, we congratulate and ap-
plaud the Domestic Science Club Of st.
Louis and wish it success and imitators.
We cannot agree, however. with the re-
marks of the preamble about the "despised
Kitchen" No person but an anchorite of
the desert despises the kitchen or its divin-
tiles. They are the subject of hope FIRE.
| q~uently, of despair sometimes, of fear usu-
! ally, but never Of scorn. They hold our lives
in their hands. They are always powerful,
often dread and mysterious, more often
kindly. Public policy, private happiness,
domestic peace, everything from a good
conscience to a good complexion, may and
often does depend upon the labors, benefl-
cent or unintentionally maleficent, of the
rulers of the kitchen.
How often has the purple light Of love
been quenched by lukewarm soup! How
many hearts of honey have been turned to
gall by q non of underdone potatoes and
overdone roast beef! Jumps in the oatmeal
may keep the divine from the heights of
contemplation. We have known divorces
to come from the habitual juxtaposition of
fish and beefsteak in the refrigerator.
Great poems have remained unwritten on
account of crumbs Of cork in the claret.
Astronomers have been called very far
down from heaven by doughty macaroni.
In short and In long, everything from art
to zoology is dependent Upon the kitchen.
States can't be saved without it. Anything
that improves the skill and comfort of it's
sovereigns adds to life and the attainment
Of happiness.
Prosperity and success to the Domestic
Science Club! 1t can do more for civilian
tion and human felicity than u million
Legislatures sitting continuously for a
million years.