The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-17
The Modern Girl.
(Chicago Tribune.)

'rThe girl who reaches the age of %
and can't cook a cake or pie or can l
make a shirt waist or trim a hat is
not true woman-she is sham, and
her parents are responsible and ought
to be punishable for misdemeanor
Jenkin Lloyd Jones had this and more
to say yesterday at the weekly meet
ing of the National Housewives asso-
citation, and he was applauded, too.
Three hundred and fifty women lis
tened to talk l made on Browning at
an Evanston woman's club yesterday,
the speaker continued, land there are
only thirteen here to listen to me talk
on housewives. This attendance shows
the trend of the thought of today. Wo-
men are nowadays occupied with dis
cussions of Browning when they ought
to be teaching their daughters how to
bake bread. When 1 talk on sub
ject like this I shut my eyes for fear
may see a housewife in the audience
PIANO VS. KITCHEN RANGE
Mr.. Jones ridiculed the practice of
sending daughters to Europe to learn
how to play on the piano-an art which,
he asserted, is never used after mar
riage.
THE modern girls spend hours at
their pianos and easels, but they are
ashamed to be seen presiding over
kitchen range" he said. Girls who
go to Vassar and Smith and other COL
falls after they have wasted hours
of labor on it. but 1 tell you it's no
joke at all-it's an everlasting disgrace,
an unmitigated shame
The modern girl who bends her ener-
gies to social conquest, and "dabbles
with every fad' came in for a share of
denunciation, and then Mr.. Jones
turned his ridicule on the domestic
science schools. where the chatting dish
is substituted for the old fashioned
cooking stove.
THE chatting dish is the greatest
humbug that was ever brought into a
mans home" he said. do not think
that you are teaching cooking when you
teach your children how to make fool
things on that silly contrivance.
WANTS TO FOUND A SCHOOL
Il am willing. even anxious, to as
sist in the founding of a technical
school Of cooking, the diploma of which
viii mean to the women what a sheep
skin from the Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology means to the men. i
would prefer to found a technical school
o. domestic science than a University
OF Chicago.
Il have come here to tell you a plan.
If you will send a committee to me I
will not only suggest way that such
school may be founded, but L will also
supply the building"
The thirteen members of the assoc
citation applauded the idea.
I knew the Lord would raise up
somebody to help u.s. exclaimed DR..
Mary Seymour.
You are the best friend we have in
Chicago" declared Mrs. Augusta Levi.
Mr.. Jones plan, although it was not
announced at the meeting, is to devote
floor at the Lincoln center, which he
will erect on the site of All Souls
church next year, to a cooking school
SMILES AT PUBLIC TRAINING
Incidentally Mr.. Jones laughed at
the domestic science courses to be found
in the public high schools.
why, they think they are teaching
cooking there" he exclaimed, land
they devote thirty minutes a week to
the study"
In dealing with the "hired girl prob
lem, Mr.. Jones blamed the housewives
for the conditions which make it inn
possible for them to secure good help.
Chicago is full of them,' he said,
whose boast it is that they came to
Chicago barefooted But where is
there d woman whose boast is that she
began life washing dishes at 81 a week.
The woman who washes the dishes is
often not as shallow or as low as the
woman who sits in the parlor at the
piano and lords over her.