The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-15
JENKINS JONES GIRL
Pie-Creating, Bread Baking Girl in
Favor at 5Minnesota's Seat
Of Learning.
Prof. Maria Sanford Says It's High
" Essential That Girls Should
Be Good Cooks.

The Jenkins Lloyd Jones girl is en-
couraged at the Minnesota state uni I
versity Co-eds at that Institution are
instructed that erudition should not sup |.
made the other day at Chicago by Rev..
jenkins Lloyd Jones, when addressing the I
National Housewives Il association, was
warmly approved this morning by Miss
Maria Sanford, a prominent member Of /
the university faculty and recognized |
exponent of advanced feminine culture
Mr.. Jones declared that, "a girl who I
cannot make and bake bread, v compound
a pudding and wash and iron her own |
shirt waist is a fraud upon young Amer
lean woman hood.". ass-- : s :. .sZz |
And you, mothers and housewives
continued the pastor, you are to blame |
for the common feeling of your daughters
against kitchen service. This servant
girl question is becoming more vital than
trusts. tariffs, or anything else In the cate
CORY of unsettled things. It affects the
home and the family, the most sacred
institutions in the land, and has much
to do with the unhappiness of the ma
ton The idea that kitchen work Is mental
must be corrected, and thelesson must be-
gin at home and in every home.,''
Yes, Mr.. Jenkins is quite right" said
Miss Sanford, ANY girl that is too ig-
ought to be ashamed of herself ,.,s i
| .'Aousework is an absolute necessity in
most families. The majority of Ameri-
cans, I'm glad to say, can't live in board
lighthouses or hotels. The housework for
that majority has to be done 1t should
be done web. If it's done badly if the
work of. the house.. and more especially
the cooking, is not done we'll, the first
result is i'll health. Next follows discon-
tent 'unhappiness. And what evils could
be worse for any nation? A people that
are badly fed, no matter hoy much they
may pay for their food, must lose phys
t ieaI mental and moral vigor. A family
that's unhealthy and unhappy can't do
much toward advancing either civilization
i of Christianity. -" =,
r Everybody admits that much, 7 sup
pose. Yet the very woman who will make
the admission quickest will bring up her
| daughter with no practical knowledge of
4 cooking or, Of other Chousework. If. the
daughter has sufficient means when she
married, she will get this work done by
servants. But how is she to direct her
servants? How is she to see that her
household is we'll kept and her meals well
cooked. If she never burned her fingers
on a spider or sad iron? t., -. -
But in spite of mothers ambitions,
mothers dreams, all girls can't marry
prosperous husbands. Most girls can't.
It's pity, no doubt, but it's fact. And
heaven help the family that is kept alive
by, an amateur cook! r: =
Many persons think, of course, that
anybody can tell when foods well cooked,
or when homework is we'll done. All you
need, they say, is money to hire servants
But no housewife has to be told the diff
I ference between knowing that something
is wrong and knowing how to Set that
something right. -,
Yes this knowledge of homework is
fully as important as intellectual training
at shool or college. No girl, rich or poor.
should fail to learn housework, unless
she's determined to. pass al her days as
@ vestal and boarder But Homework
| should be taught at home. The mother
i is incompetent who can't teach her
4 daughter the art of housekeeping, which
+ is the art OF health and happiness H.