Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-12-20
Governor of Utah.

the girls in the upper grades OF .ne
CITY schools. A Wisconsin paper coih-
menting on the results OF a rev years
az this teaching said that the cltlzehs
as a whola lived better and at less Cost
than they had done before the young
girls received this practical tralilhs'
The next step IN the line OF progress
WAS taken In 1855 When New YORK wy
and Boston made lessons In cooking
mart Of the regular work OF the ClS
schools. Two years later Philadelphla
followed their example. chicago also
established a number OF school Kitchens
About this time Pratt and DreNel IN
sttutes came into prominence
From this time on the numDer Vi
domestic science schools Increased rap,
idly. Oregon Colorado, ttah' anu
Montana followed the lead OF the older
| states and established strong domestic
departments in their Agricultural COLI
leges or universities,
During the past 1--WE years number
OF prominent universities nave lllro-
duced this work, Ohio. Missouri west
Virginia. Nebraska. Tennessee, Illinois
and Minnesota,
Manual training high schools have
been established IN nearly all the large
=.
| South. progress has been made but
slowly In this subject as In all matters
requiring practical and scientific knoWl-
! edge
The work In cooking introduced into
| the public school system OF the large
Eastern cities seems 20 have been high
| " appreciated by the public. New YORK
, CITY now has nearly so schools Whete
| cooking Is taught In the grammar
grades. Boston, always in the lead In all
public reforms. provides cooking les
| sons for bows as well as for girls Now
nearly all the leading cities Of Amer
| lea have made provisions for some IN
structlun In the household arts, either
! In the grammar grades or In the High
| school In most Of the school kitchens
! the puuils receive a lesson OF an hour
and a half once n week for three hall
| wears OF course this amount of In
| struction can not turn out accomplished
| cooks, and this Is not the object; but
| IL does help 10 bind the girl TO her home
center her interests there. and give her
! an increased respect for the science ana
! art OF cooking
or work In domstic science other than
| that done In public schools and IN in
stitutes OF higher learning Is i'm
| possible 10 describe the extent to which
II has deyeloped in the last few years
Too numerous to mention are the even
| ing cooking classes taught AZ private
expense for the benefit Of working girls
IN the large cities. the classes In sim
( rle hygiene and home sanitation held
for the benefit Of the mothers In the
crowded tenements: vacation schools
held for the teachers lectures and dem
! onstrntlons TO help the busy houEekeep-
err. and lectures given al state and
county fairs while hundreds Of w0-
mems clubs IN the country neighbor-
| b"oSs IN Villages and in cities. are
studying some phase Of household sci
| cnce
II the domestic science, idea has De.
| velQped thus from such small heglh
I rings 10 Us present broad field Of lniu-
1 cnce DURING the last half Of the nine
I tenth century what results may we
/ not hone FOR IN this new century when
J an shall fully realize that the physical.
I mental and moral development Of the
/ nation depends upon the quality Of It's
] daily bread