The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-19
with the roof play grounds and kinder

with the roof play grounds and kinder
gartens.
The Baron de Hirsch school for immi-
grant children was described, as 1t now
stands In the district given over to
foreigners. $4,000 children alone, How
the American flag always floats above Il
and she described how these children
from foreign chimes saluted it in a dra-
matte manner which was inspiring, COM
mencing. I'VE the children of distant
lands"
She asked the question: "Why cannot
we have our Playground" She asserted
that IT the club took hold of it they
could make success Of it, And she
though, no where under Gods blue skies
was playground more needed than in
Butte. In the discussion which followed
Mrs. r. G. Young declared that next to
New York. Chicago. Philadelphia and
Boston no city in the United States need.
ed such thing more than Butte. Public
school Fairgrounds there were under
municipal control. She contended that
the supervisor Of such a playground
should be some one who could sympa-
thize with the children's amusement:
someone who had the spirit of play in
them. No guardian policeman. She spoke
OF the peculiar condition here. The
peculiar industrial conditions; the three
shirt system; father had to sleep and
the children In order to play had to go
out IN the streets. many being literally
forced into life of crime by this means.
Two things are God given, the home and
the church: the schools and the gift Of
civilization. There is too great a tend
ency to ask the school to do the entire
work Of the other two. She thought the
public Fairgrounds should not be on the
school grounds.
Mrs. ]. w. Gum, who has this matter
greatly at heart and who tried to agitate
1t q year ago. spoke earnestly. She
thought 1t the most practical work the
club could take up. She herself had
spoken to many men Of wealth and
standing and every one expressed q de-
sire to help in the good work If the club
took 1t up. The children are the future
citizens and a playground would help
them to grow up into good citizens. Mrs.
Majors spoke briefly on the subject but
furnished food for thought and by re-
quest Mrs. r.. G. Young told OF the good
accomplished by 40 women In Rhode
Island in day nursery. The discussion
was earnest and brought forth some ex-
cellent ideas.
Mrs. Spencer Workman read an able
paper written by Mrs. Lalie E. Charles
on Generations of Cooks" It was COM
prehensive and exhaustive, going back
to the very first days of cookery. The
dishes for which at one time each section
Of the United States was noted, We're de-
scribed. Their origin and also the dishes
evolved by English people and others
when set down far from their native
land. Colonial times and days were
spoken Of, in connection with the cook
ing extant at that time. Cooking in the
days of Queen Elizabeth, stress being
laid upon the pies, and the evolution Of
the pie in America to the dainty affair
it is today.
Food eaten by the Ancients, Greeks,
Egyptians, etc, was Interestingly de-
scribed. and the difference between the
food Of old and the food they eat today.
was noted. She spoke Of the hold French
cooking has on the world in general and
the heighth of perfection 1t has now
reached. She then took up the general
trend now to scientific cooking. Of the
fact that it is now generally acknowl-
edged that cooking is, or should be, an
exact science. That Is an adjunct to
rational life.
This paper called forth a discussion,
one member relating the barrenness Of
farm cooking, the few sources to draw
on. the lack of time to. do anything like
scientific cooking even IL the farmers
wives and daughters knew Of such
thing. Another member took the OPP
posite side and told Of how 1t had come
under her observation that scientific
cooking was coming into the farm lives.
That the wives and daughters were
it up; and also OF the help they
received from the experimental station.
This concluded the program for the
day.