The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-10-25

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to buy? How much time does she
idle away when she might be making
her own dress? How much money
does your husband pay out for dress
making that might as we'll go to
something else that you are doing
without? He does this to enable you
to keep up" with somebody else.
We have introduced sewing in our
schools here. Thru the kindness of
two Of our citizens, we have two
sewing machines at the school house,
and while ! do not expect beginners
to sew on machine, expect that
that every girl who graduates next
spring, will make her own gradual
ing dress, and she must cut the goods
and fit it herself. (Applause) The
girls can help each other in this work,
and they will do SO gladly, and 1t is
my purpose to have this all carried
out at school, and when they appear
at graduating time, the parents may
see how they look. (Applause)
The same things that l have said
about sewing, might be said-about
cooking. You have not the time or
do not take time to teach, but we can
do 1t in the school. The girls who
learns these things, lives better and
sets her table better with less money.
But fancy bear you ask how are
we to get the time to do all this.
You have plenty of time in school
If you will make proper use Of it.
Most of the real work is done in less
time than Is spent upon it, Two
hours concentrated thot and study,
followed by an hour of work with
the hands, will accomplish more than
three hours work on the lessons in
the book. The mind works very rap
idly when in proper trim for work,
and it gets very dull and stupid by
long Sltt1ngs on lessons.
You have SO weeks schooling here
each year, of six hours day. In
Boston we have % weeks per year,
and the afternoon session lasts on
ly from to 4 o'clock, and we con-
trive to give our children pretty good
education. We have kitchen with an
ordinary cook stove in it. Just an
ordinary stove such as you are most
likely to have at home. Not fine
range with lot of attachments that
are unusual, SO that when Mary tries
to cook something at home and spoiIs
it she will say to her mother, "Well,
II our stove just had damper here,
I could make good biscuit" Cap
plause) Then there is plain old
fashioned sink that has to be scrub
bed to keep it clean. We are par
ticular about this, because we prefer
to teach them just how to do clean
ing. / am willing to teach the doc
trine of sapolio. (Applause) There
Is also tank for hot water, bench
for the use of spectators, or class
taking observations, for at each les
son there is cook and an assistant
cook and the observers, and we have
the usual utensils for measuring and
mixing. The girl who makes a pie
has two spoons, tin cup, knife, fork,
pie plate etc., and while the pie lis
baking she is required to clean up
the table and her tools. How many
of you do this with your daughters?
How many of your daughters come
into the kitchen and make pie, pastry,
candy or something and then leave
everything in a muss for you to clean
up? We do not do it that way. Clean
ing up and putting the tools away
Is just as much part of the lesson as
the pie or whatever the dish
Is. We teach her how to scrub too.