The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-19

| | erosity and that of the other State papers, ! who give them space simultaneously to address the different sections of Ala l bama, the committee of House Economies would assure you of their appreciation of the use of columns, shared each week | with associations all whose purposes are noble. We trust that your readers will see that we are out of sympathy with none | of these associations. Like the U. D. C., we would guard the welfare of the descendants of the old soldiers: like the D. A. R. our purpose is to preserve the gentlewoman of the old school; with the
 editor of one point of view we are in perfect accord and we hope the director of the State Historical Department shall | have among his archives a record of how Alabama women moved with as much judgment and energy to develope our | States resources as the Massachusetts women of the past have ever done in lending their aid to make Massachusetts a State quoted in every land, as one | whose citizens per capita contribute more | to the States wealth than do the citi- | zens ofSany other State. am, very sincerely, Mrs. Kate H. Morrissette. Chairman of Committee on Household
 Evonuomics. Ala, Federation Wo- l mems Clubs.
 Household Economies.
 Never before perhaps in the history of Alabama has a time ben more propitious
 than the present for feminine effort in | educational lines, especially education of 1 a practical nature. The Southern Educa- | tional Board composed of men whose suc- cess Is assured have addressed themselves | to the task of converting our State and
 her neighbors to the theories and methods of education which have made prosper | ous States less rich than Alabama and | other Southern States in natural re-
 sources. Now that we may confidently expect industrial schools to be establish ed in the not distant future all over the
 South, it behooves the women to see to it that we do our part in hastening the day of their establishment, and that
 we look to it that the special training for girls be as peculiarly suited to their future lives as the mechanical and tech nical and agricultural instruction Is for boys.
 There is a term used for this education of girls, future home-makers: it is Household Economies. If we enquire we i will learn that women in nearly every l State of the Union are interesting them- | selves to see that this education is pro- | vided for girls. It is. not too early to | study the subject and to make opinion | favorable to such institution. By the
 time the finances of the State permit it's | introduction we can have the people so l saturated with ideas of it's value and
 importance that it will be voted into
 every public school
 1 Totally ignorant of the subject when | our President asked me to serve on this
 committed. l set out to endeavor to learn
 all I could. Yet in the A B c class,
 desire to share with the clubs the infor-
 nation I have gained, and commence
 with setting out for them the most help | full and stimulating thing have discover
 ed-a record of how other States took
 up the study and how they progressed.
 This record is found in the report made
 in 1900 of a convention of the National Household Economic Association, or
 ganized in 1893, when every vice-presi-
 dent of States represented in the Asso-
 citation, reported, each, the study and
 work in her State.
 The summary Is as condensed as l
 could make it without staying its spirit.
 May l beg our club women to examine
 1t. and to ask themselves what we shall do?
 There are so many sides to the subject practical, ethical, sociological. artistic | and literary that surely it cannot be bar | red by the laws of any club. The musical | clubs can devote a day to music in the
 home and be in line with Household | Economies. Purely literary clubs can
 read Spencer's Biology. many of Huxley's | Essays, Tyndall on Floating matter in
 the air, and other literary gems and be
 in touch with Household Economies; and
 can widen the influence by putting these
 books in their town libraries.
 We are not ready to ask more than we
 have asked for our public schools-as
 Mrs. w. F. Johnston our forsemul chair
 man of Education Committee says. Always we are ready and anxious to l Co is. lot
 Household Economies. It is ancient as
 Moses time and new as the day of the
 latest born infant which depends on its
 mother for all the possibilities life holds.
 Let us put ourselves in touch with the
 Southern Educational Board whose Fix
 ecutive Secretary. Rev. Edgar Gardner | Murphy, has in every Sundays Mont
 gomery Advertiser such luminous elo-
 Quent words about the duty of the hour l as makes us thank our Heavenly Father | for answers to prayers, especially the l prayer which is work of Mrs. George B. Eager, Mrs. A. H. Munger, Mrs. R. D. l Johnston. Mrs. Erwin Craighead and all
 that band devoted heart and soul to the l children of our State. | Abridgement of report made in 1900 at
 convention of Household Economic Asso- | ciation:
 Arkansas.
 | First alphabetically by her States | name, and high on the list of vice-presi- | dents by personal character and attain
 ments, Is Mrs. Jennie Beauchamp of Lit | tie Rock. Not seeking to form a State | Association, but to interest the State Federation already ir existence, she has
 induced sixty clubs representing 2.50O wo-
 men to study Domestic Science. Such
 is the uniformity of opinion on it's i'm | portance, that their legislative commit
 tee of which she Is chairman will petition
 the next legislature for its introduction | into the public school system. Mrs. Beauchamp conducts a department | of Domestic Science in the Little Rock | Democrat which the editor sends free
 to every club in the State, thereby secur- | ing an uninterrupted interest. and she | employed last year a teacher who gave | lectures and demonstrations.
 She found an Arkansas girl eligible to the free scholarship (given a second
 time to the States in the Dread Institute Worcester, Mass.) domiciled her there, ig pIo yNla e., t&