Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-20

1T Is to deyelope power over circum-
stances and conditions that the manual
training element Is advocated as an In
tegral part of public education
How few forms OF training can be
given that will so readily develop
power over circumstances and condl-
tons as training In cookery. 1t has
all the advantages of hand and brain
work that any manual training has
with the added value of scientific train
ing.
FORMATION OF CHARACTER.
This science training Is OF inestimable
value to the young girl as an aid In the
formation of character. She lives too
largely in the realm of the emotions, of
prejudice and sentiment, is too ready
to 1uinu at conclusions instead of care
fully Weighing evidences.
Women as class do not sufficiently
respect the laws OF science; they are too
much bound by habit and tradition.
II woman had properly recognized the
value Of science applied in the home
would the productive arts of weaving
dyeing, basketry and ceramics, that
generations ago were her blrthright,
have passed out of her hands? She
has little left now but some OF the minor
processes of housekeeping, Has she
not indeed sold her blrthright for a
mess Of pottage?
Woman still does the most of the
work OF preparing the food for the
world, but IL she Is not willing to be-
lieve In the principles of science and
apply them to her cooking and thus
remove it from the realm of luck,
chance, and guess work. Il too must
pass out of her hands.
There are many advantages that the
girl desires from her manual training
In domestic science that are not strict
~ unitarian or educational. yet are
OF the greatest Importance. May we
not term them of sociological value?
To keep the young girl In sympathy
with the details of the daily life of the
family IL one of the benefits she derives
from her training In domestic science.
AS the girl enters womanhood she de-
sires TO break away from the restraints
Of home life. and is apt to think It's
daily affairs petty and sordid, and its
duties drudgery
III as she enters high school she
Is given a course In domestic science
that is largely manual training will IL
not serve to bind her to the home and
give her new respect for Its duties?
THE KITCHEN LABORATORY.
She VIII be taught the history and
development OF foods, their preparation
for the market and their composition
and uses I'm the body. Then In a large,
pleasant kitchen laboratory the girl
Will prepare with her own hands some
dish from the food classes she has
studied. She viii be taught to measure
with eNactness. She will be taught
correct proportions and principles and
she VIII know that they are correct
for she VIII see them work out satisfac-
torily She viii be taught the reason
for every process step by step; she will
be taught extreme neatness, daIntiness.
and dizziness I'm handling her materials.
She win see the principles OF physics
applied In the management of the
range.
After such lessons and practise will
II be possible for her to feel that cook
cry is drudgery?
'Drudgery does not exist for those
who know the reason why"
Later I'm the course the girl
VIII be given more advanced work I'm
the chemistry Of foods and the labora.
tory Will be less Of manual training.
when the young woman's school DAYS
are over and she returns to aid her
mother In the duties Of the home. or
Incomes mistress Of new home, will
she not feel that her school lessons
have led her directly to her lies
work. WIN she not take to heart the
Injunction of the good book and Look
well to the ways Of her houehold?" A
woman thus trained can never be sal.
isfied to turn her home over 10 the
care OF incompetent help. she viii so
direct and instruct those In her employ
VIII enthuse and inspire them with her
own belief that II requires brains and
SIKH to properly perform the work OF