The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-12-31
MANTOWOC WIS.,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3d. l9OS


could not fashion garment for baby.
Tell me, friends, when and where shall
our girls be taught these arts when the
homes Of today present such conditions.
hear someone say, Let the No
theirs Club solve the problem" and l re-
ply, Aye, verify but they can never
reach all the mothers and have not yet
reached any considerable number of
them Not enough, | am certain, to in
sure anything like proper education for
the girls who are to be the housekeep-
ers and home makers Of tomorrow
A former Superintendent of Indiana
polls schools has said that the education
that teaches boys and girls to earn
money and does not teach them how to
spend it, is failing in half its duty. and
| insist that the education that teaches
a child to know and feel without induc-
ing him to act is failing in at least one
third of its duty. Surely there is room
for criticism at this very point in onr
present day education.
The whole scheme of our education
for girls, says an English professor,
lis wrong in it's fundamentals The art
of homemaking, if you please should be
taught rs a science and rs art
The question of food and drink is no
longer beneath the dignity of men and
women 1t is now recognized as fnnda.
mental and it demands the best thought
of educators.
Among certain classes the ravages of
strong drink and even the divorce court
attest the ignorance of the housewife.
The teaching of household arts in the
schools is aimed at these evils and its
progress is encouraging.
Many citizens have been led to real
ize the imperative demand to meet not
only such conditions as have been emu.
merated but also to meet the demands
made upon the public school rs II medi,
um for AmericaniZing the hosts of
foreign born children brought yearly
within its Influence.
ln the we'll equipped cooking school.
girls of all classes are brought together
the girl from the home of wealth
where Bridget or Christine reigns SUI
preme and would resent the intrusion of
an unframed Miss upon her realm; the
girl from the home where the mother
excuses her daughter from household
labor; and the girl from The home where
the family lives out of tin cans are in
structed in clean, economic, nutritious
cookery. Efficiency, helpfnlness, the
dignity of labor, desire to contribute
something to the worlds work are in
stilled into the minds AMI hearts; while
for the other classes standard of living
is established which may change the
whole current of their lives.
But hear some teacher say, That
is all very we'll in graded schools where
special teachers are employed
Let me tell you friends, of school in
my own town where the eighth grade
teacher has undertaken to instruct in
the 1th and 9Th grades. True, the board
has given her the necessary equipment
but without the aid Of Il special teacher
she Is doing most excellent work among
the girls and by her tactful and efficient
plans is doing much to counteract the
prejudice which still exists in the minds
of some of the mothers who even yet
resent this effort to help the girls.
Another teacher in my home town.
without any special equipment but who
has both wisdom ana zeal has undertak.
en- in the sixth grade to work ont some
problems in sewing and cooking among
the boys and girls.
Listen to the report made by these
self same children after year of effort
and success.
My dear Miss Barbre-
We are going to try to write you
a fnll report of ouI cooking for the past
how much we like it, We even stay ut
home from roller skating to do our
arithmetic and geography SO we will
have time to cook and sew in school
The boys say that cooking is more fun
than Christmas.
We have our cooking lessons every
other Friday afternoon from 3I5 to 3:45
and our sewing lessons on each Wednes.
day if we have no lessons to make up
We tried attaching tube from II
gas Jet to plate That did very well
for the things we boiled but the things
baked too slowly so one of the boys
brought three holed gasoline stove
While we were having the L. S. in
history we had six lessons on the differ.
ent ways Of preparing corn; each time
four girls and two boys had charge Of
the work And while the things were
cooking, three pupils previously selected
by Miss Porterteld, told M what corn
would do for each part of our system and
the different things corn contains.
The boys always want to do this part
but we do not let them do it all, for we
think we can write story as well ~
they.
We cooked lst scalloped corn, 2nd.
hominy, 3rd. fritters. 4th corn oyster
18th. corn pudding 9Th corn bread. Then