The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-12-31

engaged in housekeeping rs against g.
Oo0, OOO in outside occupations.
Homemaking occupying the time as
it does Of 1000, 600 women who hold in
their hands the comfort and health of so
many other millions does not now re-
ceive in any marked degree particular
attention in our present educational sys-
tenn, which in reality units the woman
for her homelife by taking her from the
activities of the home for so many years
of her life that she has little time in
which to cultivate taste for house.
keeping.
Again, the mode of living in the best
appointed homes excludes the girl from
participating in the work; in the average
home there are so many foolish mothers
who in their efforts to give their daugh.
ters the same opportunities for society
and so called culture rs is afforded the
girl in the home of wealth, assume all
or nearly all of the household labor and
excuse their daughters by saying. 80,
| want them to have good time. | dc
not want them to work as hard as have
had to work " In the homes of the
poor. there is so little of the necessary
equipment and the work must be done
against such heavy odds of careless,
sloven Indifference and under the guild.
ance of such unqualified mothers that
it does not appeal to the daughters. The
woman who has to depend upon the
help of shftless irresponsible girls from
such homes will bear me ont in these
statements.
These girls are often found in the
same attitude toward house work as was
the little girl in the cooking school OF
one of our cities. She insisted at first
| that she didn't like to wash dishes be.
cause she couldn't bear the smell CO the
dsh,rag.
The canning factory and the bake
shop have combined to deprive girls of
the opportunity to learn this most wo.
manly of arts.
A groceryman in our town expressed
himself very forcibly, if not elegantly
the other day, on this very phase of life
when he said in disgust Many women
of this town are 80 abominably lazy that
they make their families live ont of tin
cans the year around" If you have
ever noticed the barrels of tin cans
that adorn so many back yards you
will realize that the grocer spoke the
truth
If yen have ever observed the attitude
of the average girl toward her mother
yon can see how unqualified such mo-
theirs are to teach their daughters.
Have you ever heard young Mist
announce to her mother as she came
rushing in from school, Mary want.
me to 90 up town with her. In
going. Can 2" If You have, YOU
may have also noticed the weary, care
worn expression of resignati on the face
of the mother as she said, We'll, don't
stay long Doubtless such n mother
has said time and again in the presence
of her daughter, II want her to have a
better time than | have had, and hel
idea of a good time is to excuse her
daughter from any responsibility what.
ever pertaining to household duties
daughter with similar ideas boasted
whel the girl was married to laborer
who was earning probably 81 50 per
day that her daughter had never done a
washing in her life nor had she ever pre-.
pared "a meals victuals alone.
There are many girls who have never
| sewed Il seam or cut ont II garment, have
never worn IL thimbe, who practically
know nothing about bread, cooking
vegetables or even making fire in a
stove. They may know how to sweep
and dust the parlor or set the table or
make fudge, bnt the careful, economical
planning of a wholesome and we'll bal.
anced meal has never come within their
experience.
A young woman graduate from n re-
putable high school went into the coun
| try to teach the first cool morning she
| requested of her landlady, Please
show me how to make fire in the
stove, and her inadeQuacy was 'phoned
all over the neighborhood before night
A young matron recently married was
asked how she liked housekeeping ant
her reply might fit the average bride OF
today. She said 20, | think | shall
| like it when learn how" The boy nj
| the store was heard to say soon after
wards, The boss is mad this morning
Guess he had to get hls own breakfast
| again.
The children lunches in the countr,
schools are evidence enough that mo
theirs are lacking in n knowledge o
| nutritious foods. Boiled cabbage spread
on biscuits constituted the lunch of one
small boy in a school visited recently
while stewed pumpkin served in the
same way was the daily lunch for two
or three weeks of family in schoo
where once taught.
Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones, who con
ducts the State Fair Cooking School nj
Springfield each year told me last Octo