New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07

maks nleasaut homes but to DO Il at much less
cost than ct present and that win make dif-
ference in the work OF the Charities Department"
Domestic science introduced into few OF
the public schools OF New-York In 1885, and Is now
taught IN sixty-one elementary schools and also
In the girls high schools. All this progress was
made under the present supervisor. appointed In
1896 While the work was under mascuIins super
vision it succeeded admirably in the few schools
into which it had been introduced experimentally.
but no effort was made to extend it.
In most of the schools the group method OF
instruction is followed. the individual method IS
being introduced the principals ask for IL and
the equipment be obtained. the individual
equipment being placed in all the new schools In
the group method four girls are chosen as COOKS
and four as housekeeDers and while they do the
cooking and housekeeping the rest OF the class
observe take notes and criticise The next day
different OF girls is chosen TO do the work. so
that all get their turn Under the individual
method each girl has her own little stove and cooks
her own little dish, the table being arranged in
hollow square, in the centre Of which the teacher
stands. The one disadvantage Of this method is
that the cooking Is done in very small quantities.
but this is obviated by having the pupils combin9
occasionally in the preparation Of little luncheons
and other meals. The group method is most con-
venient for large classes, and was found to pro-
dgce m GOOD aS tb ne Saa nat
been able to make themselves at school
Cooking is usually spoken OF as the girls course
in manual training. but Mrs. Williams does not
any branch Of educational work. 1t is rather, the
crown and completion Of girls education for
which the instruction in other branches prepares
her.
at IS the application of all the studies in the
ricula OF elementary and high schools to woman's
work in the world ome-making and the rearing
of children. Our aim is not only to fit her for this
work but to prove to her that it is the highest and
best. the most dignifled and the most important
work in the world. and that, this being true spe-
cial training IS necessary Cooking has been looked
upon as something degrading, and has been left
largely for the last twenty-five years. in the Amer
lean household to the servants. To-day we are
teaching the girls that the nerves of taste. like
those OF sight and hearing. are nerves OF great
sense and capable of education.
Il hope the day viii come when n graduate or
our schools or colleges will consider hOme-malNing
and tho rearing OF children worthy of her highest
efforts, and to care for her own home or accept a
salaried position in rhe home of another dig
nihed as one in the school in the office. This
seems too great thing to hope for but not so i'm
possible. II think Of the wonderful advance
rnent in that branch OF domestic scence-nursing.
Twenty years ago. the nurse. like the hOusekeeper.
trusted merely to her womanly instinct To-day
she is required to have good general education
and three years special training; only ons year
less than that for a physician"
were taken in Public School Ne. o., the Sunshine