The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-01-16
SCHOOL NEEDED
TO TEACH WIVES
The Rev. Jenkins Floyd Jones
Has Soma Peculiar Ideas.
E0YS ARE GIVEN IRA MING.
VIII Should Not Girls also Receive Technical
Instruction Institute Of Domestic
Arts and Science Needed,
EOYS ARE GIVEN IRA MING.

Chicago. Jan 1.-THE National House
the Rev Jenkin Lloyd Jones that the
the average American girl, the graduate
OF finishing school, was untitled to be
a wife. He has been deluged with let
ters since from angry girls, who say they
are fitted to be wives. and when the right
man comes along they will show Mr..
Jones. The reformer thus explains his
views:
I believe In the higher education OF
woman TO the fullest extent. | believe
in the organization of Browning classes
and Dante circles for women. But the
girl Is unit FOR wifehood or mother
hood who cannot prepare with her own
hands a palatable meal, make her own
dress and darn acceptably her husbands
stockings
The amount OF domestic infeliclty. Inc
briefly and divorce scandal that can be
traced directly to the incompetency of
the woman TO keep and make home de-
Gently. within the prescribed means OF
her husband cannot be overeshmated.
The man thought he was marrying a
wife. If he has found instead that he
has married a human butterfly how can
IL end except In disaster and disgrace?
Unattractive homes. uasanItary cooking
and wives unreconciled to the simple life
make drunkards and keep the divorce
courts busy
GIRLS DISLIKE HOUSEKEEPING.
The new education presented by the
technical training and the application OF
science TO the practical problems OF life
| has yet scarcely touched the education
OF girls. The one department OF industry
| most intimately connected with the life
OF the individual is untouched by special
| training
Girls grow up with contempt for
that industry which alone makes life
tolerable Housekeeping IL in practical
disgrace. IL not theoretical and home
making Is I'm contempt In the minds OF
the majority Of girls, unless 1t be posi-
BILE 10 exploit the home from the cap
italistic standpoint. unless there is money
enough 10 hire help
This accounts for the rush OF girls tC
the shops. tho stores and the mills. Nor,
than any other one cause. IL accounts
for the pathetic army who are travel
ling the short road TO death represent
ed by the awful irony expressed I'm th'
phrase social evil"
II is because girls dread the disgrac,
OF being kitchenmaids and seek tn
hneries and the Incidence of the parlo
and its privileges that they put them
selves in the way OF temptation an,
before they know it fal victims pri
marily to q defective education. n falls
home standard. There Is nothing i'm IN
country today that answers for the train
Ing OF girls which the great technica
schools OF the country provide for tn
training Of their brothers.
There are technical schools oS~~iinina
Of electrical chemical and sanitary ongi
necrlng for boys. but there are no school
, for domestic engineering from which
, diploma is credit and an introductio
into lifcs work The so-called "dumcs
tic science" as taught at present Is y
: best but leisure class fad pursued wit
frills and afcctations.
SCHOOL or DOMESTIC Arts.
There is no need 50 imperative. n
place where q little capital will accom-
plish pa much. as I'm the founding cf
= school Of domestic arts and sciences o
, broad practical lines. Not "a six-monthl
2 course In cooking 20 which Is given
2 3o-minutcs' legsson once n week. or
Y six months course for an hour a wee
= In n cutting and dressmaklng schoo
! where more attention is paid 90 the ia,
oring OF soups and the manipulat tion
2 the channe dish and the proper trlmmln
Of fancy aprons and hats than 10 IN
larger fundamental questions OF how
feed the masses.
J The question of dress I'm all its Il,
partments should be lifted out of tl
realm of fashion into the realm OF a
and science such n school could con
mand the inspiration OF not only a T.
, expert educators but the most comp'
! tent instructors IN the realm OF ec,
nomics and ethics. 10 should be brougi
: / IN touch with men and women eduCatoi
, 7 Who can bring intc tho ciesa-roDms %
, Inspiration ~ science. literature and Diff
tory.
These schools should tc adapted 80 M
Younger as veil az grown-up girls an
women who arc not content 10 Occup