Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-01-03

'tN 90 III sll u V'h
Mother the Best Teacher.
Cooking schools are a very poor sub.
stitute for the kitchen and the house.
hold of II really good ~housekeeper. They
deal too entirely with theory. and cook
ing Is above all things q practical art.
On. | know. of course. that the girls
who go to the cooking schools have ac-
tually tn cook. But that is lust once.
IL is doing ii every day. under different
circumstances. meeting different little
emergencies. tina makes the really good
cook. Cooking schools are a whole 10,
better tina nothing. but they are u
whole lot worse than the hone training
which our grandmothers gave our
mothers.
BY which I do not mean to saw that
every oma should pare bles.
and dress fowls. and bake the bread for
her own table. But she should emphat-
ically know how. and So be able to SUI
pervise those whose business 1t is to-
90 II for her. III depends on circum-
stances as to how much cooking u wom-
an should do. No woman is too rich
TO understand and practice the culinary
ART. And d woman who is u really good
COOK Is u long way on the road to being.
IA really good h~ousekeepe..
TO a really good h~ouSekeeper. thu,
servant problem is not such "A bugbear.
she can get along without servants if
~ oAiN - StIltTtIIN aDIe
to keep servants wh,A, she gets them.
or to train new one when she is OBJ
llg"d to do so. So she does not let IL,
drive her out of her home and into a
hotel or a boarding house.
Ana a very large proportion of the
divorces occur among occupants of no!
tells and boarding houses. The logic,
oi the situation points not to "A federal
marriage law. nor yet to Il uniform
divorce law-for the views of the states
on that subject differ too widely TO
make II probable that they could he
brought into agreement-but to the
ounce OF prevention which is proverbi-
ally worth a pound of cure. 1t seems,
10 m" mat the most effective preventive.
is a thorough knowledge of cookery,
The Crying Question Of Divorce.
Divorce Is undoubtedly the crying
evil of the day. According to the CEN,
sus OF 1900 there was AT that time in
the state OF New York one divorced
person for every 241 married: in Penn-
s%ylvania one for every 2lS married:
Massachusetts had one divorced per-
son for every 1873 married persons: CAL.
ifornla and Connecticut. one for every
us. followed closely by Rhode island
and Illinois with one for every III
Michigan. II for every 100: Maine
n for every seventy-six. and New
Hampshire n for every %siytv-one
married individuals.
Things have certainly improved since
then. So far az statistics are to be had.
they indicate that New York CITY has
now, In proportion to It's population.
fewer divorced persons than any city
in the union. There is only one divorce
there to every forty marriages.. Bal
timore comes next with Il divorce to-
every twenty-eight marriages.. Phila-
delphia is third with one for every
twenty: Pittsburg and Washington are
tied for fourth place with one in every
eighteen; Boston. one for every four
teen; New Orleans, one for every thir-
teen: Milwaukee,, one for each eleven,
Chicago. n for each nine; Louisville.
one for each eight; st. Paul and Cleve-
land, one for each seven; INDIANAPOLIS.
n for each five; and San Francisco
and Kansas City. one for each four.
This is Il record worth bordering
well-a record that religious bodies and
sociological students are bordering,
we'll, a record hat Uncle Sam is pom
dering well n which Is making the,
possibility Of a federal marriage law., 1
even though 1t could be Accomplished
only by q constitutional amendment.
loom large on the horizon: a record.
moreover. which makes DIR. Wiley's
ounce of prevention worthy of careful
consideration.