The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-02-14
WOman'S Club Meets on Wednesday
Afternoon and Study Practical
Subjects of the Home.
MRS. BELLE LEACH ESSAYlST
An Interesting Discussion Follows thu
Paper, in Which Many Interesting
Points Were Brought Out.

building Wednesday afternoon. The
subject under discussion was "Domes-
tic Science" Mrs. Belle Leach, the
essayist, treated the subject IN very
practical way and a long and lively
discussion, led by Mrs. Chas. Allen,
followed the reading of the paper.
Three sub-topics under the main ques-
ton were treated in the discussion,
pertaining to meat eating as opposed
to vegitarianism, diet as opposed to
exercise, and a new idea in the train
ing of domestics.
From the day on which Eve served
Adams first lunch up to the present,
women have realized that the way to a
mans heart is through his stomach,
not his brain. All civilization, reform
and progress center in the home
Governments exist for its protection.
But homes are different. Some are
places of inspiration, comfort and
pleasure, others are the breeding
places of vice and discomfort. Why
the difference? The New England
home was the model of thrift and in
tegrity. The men and women OF New
England, the product of these homes,
were of staunch and sturdy character.
The good home is the rallying point OF
all social and civil power. In Sw1tzer-
| land professional household schools
have long been established, where
young girls are instructed in all that
pertains to domestic life. The city of
Geneva not long since appropriated
$50 900 for new building for house
hold school, in which the instruction is
free. The kitchen garden is the little
sister of domestic science. 1t was
founded in the interest of children of
poor parents It is conducted IN way
to pleasantly combine play and work,
promote self respect, and make life
to1era BILE and often pleasant that would
be otherwise miserab BILE.
The American has been proven
bially lean and 1ank and lily fed ma
ton up to within the past few years,
Notwithstanding her abundant re-
sources. We have lately been learn
| ing much and have yet much to learn
| from older countries on the subject of
domestic science. 1t has been proved
that the external evidences of age are
warded off by proper diet. There
would seem to be rebound from the
old idea that the brain activity is pro-
NOTED by fasting. The teachers in the
public schools first investigated this
idea aud found that the who1esome1y
fed children were the best students.
The first school for domestic science
| in America was in Boston. Washing
ton had the second, and the third was
estab 1ished in Milwaukee in 1897. Wis
consin has branched out in this line
all over the state, recognizing the wis
dom of it. Evansville has one OF the
most complete of these schools. Hot
lunches of hygienic food we'll prepared,
are served at the nominal sum OF ten
cents, and the children who prepare
them are taught the why's and what's
concerning the materials and their
usage. They are taught that good
cooking is a means to an end, the end,
| good health. In Eau Claire the Wo-
mans Club has carried on summer
cooking school.
| Not only in foreign lands, but in our
own country, much time and money is
spent in the education of the men and
| women to live. The Chicago Univer-
sity leads all, perhaps. The pupils in
domestic science learn not only the
com bination of materials used, but the
nature of the materials themselves.
Microscopes and test tubes are part
of the kitchen parapherna1ia. 1t has
been said that over six hundred mil
| lion dollars are wasted in American
| kitchens yearly, and one half the mon
ney earned in America is spent for
food. There are schools springing up
all over the land for training house
keepers, the mistress and maid must
work hand in hand in order that the
desired result may be reached. A
| domestic science school is as neces-
sary for girls as a commercial COLI
1epe for boys. A better care of the
home and body will enrich the state
physically, morally and financially.
The Greeks gave their first attention
to the body. Many eminent people
have given names and recipes for
various dishes. The time will come
when women will furnish a hygienic
kitchen, and domestics must have di-
p1omas for domestic science college.
Science will in the future revolution
ize kitchen drudgery as it has already
done. Think of the range, gas, cleo
tricity and hot water heat provided
from a central station. The time will
come when our meals will be served
from shop like our present bakeries,
through pneumatic tubes or on auto
mobile carriages, and with better ser
vice will come a reduction in the cost
of living. It is said that a chef in
Paris has already solved the problems,
and in a pill or a tablet provides q
a1ourishing meal for the family.
: When we shall have learned better
how to nourish the body the life of the
Individual and the life of the nation
will be improved.
The club will not meet again for