The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-02-02

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
the art of providing comforts and lux
| urics for the home, is the dream OF a
group of Chicago women. says Chica-
go dispatch
These ladies say they do not wish to
| be looked upon as extreme propagan
dists who would found corneryatorleS
| 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, the
home, is declared to be in need OF fos-
/ tering care. The danger is said 10 be
| greatest in the So called educated
classes land among those who are
| striving to attain a false education
| which they consider higher"
| 1t 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
curricula studies in chemistry of foods,
bacteriology and sanitation.
| Particularly Is 1t designed TO save
from a life of tea drinking and scandal
mongering the girl who comes out OF
school, i'm which home management and
| home occupations have found little
place. Such girl, while taught TO de
| mand a reason for everything. is In
| many cases intrusted with the conduct
/ of n 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. 1t is too confining, and the pos
SCISSOR of it too often turns to frivoities
| when she is not abusing her servants to
her neighbors
The Chicago Woman's club MS body
is championing the movement, and It's
| president. Mrs. Charles Henrotin, is out
spoken in her advocacy. The club de
voted an afternoon recently TO discus
sion Of the subject after listening to a
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 encourag ging sign.
II think domestic science should be
taught i'm pnblic and private schools, =
said Mrs. Henrotin. "This idea. which
was frowncd upon by most educators
at first, has been gaining ground in the
last two years. An active educational
movement along these lines has been
going on i'm quiet way. and now it has
reached such proportions in Chicago
that it is planned TO take up the propo-
sition with the board of education. This
is not a fad, but serious work along
right lines"
| I'VE have i'm the United States 15.-
OOO, 900 private homes" said Mrs. EV-
ans 1T is a safe conclusion that
every home must have some kind of a
housekeeper Add to these 1o,o0o,ooo
ho,isekeepers 100000 domestic work
ers. and we have at least 11,ooo,ooO
women engaged in homemaking as
against 100000 in outside occupa-
lions. Homemaking, occupying as 1t
does 170O0.00O women, who hold in
their hands the comfort OF and health
Of so many other millions, has no place
in our census and the future student
OF these records may well suppose that
only 5000. 600 out of the 24,OOO,0o0 of
the sex were doing nothing. This labor
Of maintaining household. rearing
children and struggling with the serv-
) ant problem is considered worthy OF
no record. Why? Because the women
who pursue II have belittled it, have
} failed to organize, classify, uplft.
"Our present educational system un-
Ats the woman for her home life by
lowering her ideal of the home, while
) Il does not as a rule fit her for any
. thing else that is useful. The absolute
) incompetency of the average girl when
| she first comes from school is only
fully realized by the parent who tries
to fit her into usefulness in the home
or the friend who seeks to find her EN-
plOyment elsewhere"
A y0PaciOus Monster.
/. The most voracious of all marine
beasts Of prey Is the orca or killer
whale. 1t reaches a length of twenty
, five feet and its jaws bristle with
. teeth from four to six inches long and
ss sharp as a dirk knife. Its digestive
power is proportoned to the tremen-
, dous efficacy of its jaws. 1t seems also
r to be an atrocious glntton. as one speci.
, men examined contained insits stomach
thirteen porpoises and fourteen seals