Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-05
Something Of . Famous Indian In.
surrection and How q Woman
Quelled II.

me association was incorporated IN
1895. largely by the efforts OF Miss i
Sckles. who is a pioneer in the cause,
having interested herself in it twenty
years ago. The story of how she came
Into the work is very interesting. While
yet young girl she became con-
Isfirmed invalid. and her physicians gave
her no hopes of a recovery. Her break.
down was the direct result OF improper
food, which had not supplied to the
growing body the nutrimentit required
During the hours when she lay with
nothing to think of but her sad condi-
| ton, she began to see what an import
ant thing proper food was. IL its lack
IScould so seriously affect a life. She had
been told by her physician that medi-
l5cine could be OF no aid to her, and the \
treatment she prescribed for herself was
good wholesome food and .lealthful ex-
ercise. AT length her work had its re-
ward, for her health was restored. But
her Interest and her experiments were
1 not allowed to pass away with her in-
Iivaltdism. and she determined to devote
time and talent to what has since been
christened domestic science.
There We're many difficulties in the
work, Chief among which has been the
Interesting Of the women, on whom, of
course, deyolves the chief labors Of
home making and keeping. 1t is a sig
lnificant fact that Miss Sickles expresses
when she says that the club women,
Who one might imagine would take most
4 kindly to the work, do not do SO. Often
i times when they do seem to have such
an interestai 1T is only ephemeral and can
be given no more dignitied name than
fad. Miss Sickles, who is of a philo-
Isophical as we'll as scientific mind. and
can give the cause for every effect she
\ observes. says that the reason for this.
A in her opinion.is that when the pleasures
of higher education We're opened to-
women they hailed the newer opportl1-
mites for Industry which followed In its
wake as an emancipation from the do
nestle work. which had come thru ig-
lsnorance and neglect to be synonym.
for drudgery. The special work with
women Of that class Is to show them
\ the dignity and responsibility Of the
home work. 1t has been just as difficult,
or even moro so to gain hearing with
4 the women OF restricted means and pow
|serty and their lack of interest has as
4 logical a cause, the lack of time to de-
vote To the learning of new methods.
4 The chief work with this class IS, OF
\ lcoursa, too show how much easier the
work vii become II done in tile sctenti-
i 3fic ways which are being worked out
4 and formulated into general rules. AM
Il other fact which is worthy Of note is
that the men, when they learn Of the
broad scope of this movement, are cas-
A lily Interested. This has been of great
4 service TO Miss Sickles and her co-woris-
|ers when they have appeared before
LEGISLATORS asking appropriations that a
woman might find 1t as easy to learn
4 o2beS housekeeper as to be q piysi-5
4 clan, lawyer an astronomer or bot
anist
II any one has thought that cooking
was the one feature Of the domestic sci-s
lence work. it is we'll to know the five
branches which the association claims as
its special works. GEOLOGY. hygiene ana
chemistry of foods. right use OF right
muscles, home nursing and sewing. In
lrellity II is seen that cooking. while o.
4 great Importance. and. perhaps, the one
In which the greatest interest is taken,
lis only one part OF the whole. "Hygiene
and chemistry of food" is an index to
the way in which cooking is handled
ijforSi tits not at all q matter of recipes.
but one Of knowledge OF what foods are
needed to build up the tissues OF the
body and then sustain them.
II is the fond hope of the association
that when the various activities Of do
q nestle work are better understood the
i stigma which attaches to 1T will be re-
moved. This will be the solution OF the
4 servant problem, which is becoming a
serious one to the American home
q When 1t is seen that health and
strength depend on the treatment ac-
corded in the home, when cooking Is
seen to be as closely related to chem
istry as medicine. when 1t is seen that
she who cares for the home should be
nurse. able at once to recognize the
lsymptoms of disease and know how 10
ward of illness, 1t Is the hope that
many women who now rush into the
lpractice OF medicine will see how near
4 ~ allied to 1T Is the work OF the domes-
tic and will prefer the latter. To one
capable Of performing SO much work
in a systematic way honor must be
4 given as to a worker In any profession
a who does his work we'll, and so the
strife between mistress and maid will
be ended.
Miss Sickles has knowledge whereof
she speaks, for she Is physician, lawyer
and chemist, as we'll as one versed In
!: all household lore. She is at present on
y her way to western Nebraska on work
connected with thescorn crop. in which
} she is much Interested. claiming its
food properties are unexcelied and Of
J, far more nutriment at the same cost
than the cheaper grades OF wheat -four.
The great corn exhibit which visitors
!. to the Paris exposition Will see this
summer was made possible by the work
!. Of the association. after the plans had
been abandoned as too extensive by an
other org anixati ton.
AIthos Miss Sickies has given 50 much
OF her time TO the theory and practice
OF domestic work. she has found time
for many other activltles. With one Of
these Ii connected story full Of his
ltertcal interest. For sone time she was
tptancipal 8os ths government school for
IT. Inlians q Fir Hlege. 8 =. She