Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-29
FOR DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Chicago Women Interested In
 Project of National Scope.
COLLEGES TO TEACH HOME WORK.

How Group of Women Would Train
 Girls For Management of Homes.
 Mrs. HenrOtin Declares That Pres ent Methods Are Educating Young Women Away From Their True Sphere.
 Domestic science taught in all schools and universities attended by women, with college degrees for managers of households and general recognition of 1 the art of providing comforts and lux uries for the home, is the dream of group of Chicago women, says Ch1ca- go dispatch.
 These ladies say they do not wish to be looked upon as extreme propagan- l dists who would found conservatOries of cookery where professors of pastry and doctors of doughnuts would ex- pound theories, but they do desire to spread the doctrine that women in all grades of life ought to be learned in economics of the home-in the laws of hygiene as in the languages.
 The foundation of national life, tho home, is declared to be in need of fos- tering care. The danger is said to be greatest in the so called educated classes "and among those who are striving to attain a false education which they consider higher"
 It is proposed to form an association of expert housekeepers who will take up the question of domestic science with public educators and enlarge the scope of the School of Domestic Arts and Sciences established in Chicago three years ago. The promoters of the association hope then to go beyond the confines of the city and state and induce the great institutions where feminine students go to add to their curricua studies in chemistry of foods, bacteriology and sanitation.
 Particularly is it designed to save from a life of tea drinking and scandal 1 mongering the girl who comes out of school. in which home management and homo occupations have found little place. Such a girl while taught to de- mand a reason for everything, is in many cases intrusted with the conduct of a household where she is given no reason for anything except usage. TO the mind trained in the average uni yersity such an occupation is not worth while. It is too conining, and the pos sessor of it too often turns to fr1volltles when she is not abusing her servants to her neighbors.
 The Chicago Woman's club as body is championing the movement, and its president, Mrs. Charles Henrotin, is out spoken in her advocacy. The club de voted an afternoon recently to discus
 ~s1 oe @Io ioa% 1iSfpnjnCr q paper by Mrs. Lynden Evans, who is
 the head of the School of Domestic Arts
 and Sciences. The fact that within the
 last few years the universities of Chi
 cago, Wisconsin and Michigan had be
 gun the teaching of chemistry of foods
 bacteriology and kindred branches was
 hailed as a most encouraging sign.
 ''I think domestic science should b' . taught in public and private schools
 said Mrs Henrotin ''This idea, Whicl a was drowned upon by most educators at first, has been gaining ground in thu last two years. An active educatlona movement along these lines has beer going on in quiet way, and now 1t ha reached such proportions in Chicag' S that it is planned to take up the propo S sition with the board of education. Thi A is not a fad, but serious work alont right lines"
 eve have in the United States l5, A 100000 private homes," said Mrs. E7 ans. "It is a safe conclusion tha 8 every home must have some kind of \ housekeeper. Add to these 100000
 housekeepers 100000 domestic work CTS. and we have at least 100000 H women engaged in homemaking a against 3,OOO,O00 in outside occupa q tions. Homemaking, occupying as
 does 17,OoO,oOO women, who hold i q their hands the comfort of and healt A of so many other millions, has no plac x fin our census, and the future studen
 of these records may well suppose tha
 only 100000 out of the 24,OOO,OOO C
 the sex were doing nothing. This labo < of maintaining a household, rear1n M children and struggling with the ser7
 ant problem is considered worthy C M no record. Why? Because the wome
 who pursue it have belittled it, hay M failed to organize, classify, uplift.
 ''Our present educational system Ill < fits the woman for her home life b
 lowering her ideal of the home, whi
 1t does not as a rule fit her for an. N thing else that is useful. The absolut A incompetency of the average girl whe M she first comes from school is onl K K fully realized by the parent who tri' @ to fit her into usefulness in the hon @ or the friend who seeks to find her en
 ployment elsewhere"