The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-27

Element, the people of this country
and particularly of New England. lived
to a marked extent upon naturally CT
ganized foods. The people of Plymouth
and Massachusetts bay colonies at the
very outset used water as their beY-
erage, and at the time they were per-
haps the only people in the world that
drank water more freely than they did
ale, beer, wine or spurious liquors. 1t
was not until well into the eighteenth
century that the New Englander e
came addicted to the drinking of cider
and rum, and the great flood of inter1-
perance that cursed the entire country
sixty years ago, did not appear until
after the American household had DIS
carded it's rye and Indian corn bread
made of the whole grains, for that
made of bolted wheat flour. Not nut
what wheat is superior to corn as toCd
for man, but that the brown bread Oh
our New England ancestry was III
superior to the impoverished, disor-
ganized. and unnourishing white flour
of today. Let it be understood ttlt
food products made from the entire
grains of any cereal are far superior
as food to the disorganized ana IN
poverished white flour SO generaily
used in the homes of this country. Ire
fact that every nation or country IN
the world that eats white flour LOT lts
principal food is either dying, cor
mant or degenerating, poverty-striek-
en- nation, is proof of this.
The New England kitchen, sunni as
it was. was always a place of abund-
ance of wholesome and platable foods.
The farm in those days supplied the en-
tire living except it be small eXpendl-
lures for tea and spices. Every girl IN
the household knew how to card, SPIN
and weave the wool and fax into all
needed articles for apparel or otherWlse.
When she left the parental root 10 set
up housekeeping for herself and nus
band it was always with a thorough
knowledge of household science. 1t was
the womanhood that went out from
New England and settled that ever-ex-
panding region called the west. Never,
as / have said, was there better
equipped domestic science, for to know
all the details of housekeeping was
religious duty of the colonial New Eng
lander 1t was knowledge of early
New England household economy that
made the development of this country
possible and that has saved it thus far
as land of religious and civil liberty
What are the mothers of the land doing
today that this legacy of their grand
mothers may be preserved to future
generations? The home is the unit of
nation. Teach your daughters how 70
wisely keep house, how to select and
prepare foods that will develop and
nourish the body, mind and soul and
you will have one of the greatest safe
guards the family and community can
possibly have No people can live and
prosper on disorganized or adulterated
| foods, and there never has been nor IS
there a nation on earth where foods are
/ disorganized and adulterated as they
are in this country today. Thousands of
/ girls and women are out of employment
simply because they do not know how
/ to do any particular kind of work. The
maiden of colonial New England was
never in this predicament, for she had
| been taught how to manage mousse
| hold. She could be her own dressmaker,
could make butter and cheese, could
direct the cultivation of a kitchen gar
den and could make a loaf OF bread
using for materials those that bullt the
perfect body for the abiding place OF a
sound mind.
! This country should have the best do
nestle science in the world, but If this
is brought about. it must be by the
women of the land. The establishment
of the Dread Institute as school OF
domestic science, is the result Of rec
ognition of this imperative need OF more
light in the kitchen, the chemical labor
atory of the home.
At the close of Mr.. Perky's address,
the guests were invited on a tour OF
INSPECTION Of the institution. under the
escort of the pupils, each OF whom
conducted a squad of visitors.