The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-11-13
NATION TO TEACH
HOUSEKEEPING.
Government Plans to Teach Do
nestle Science to Women.
TO AID THE FARMERS WIVES

Department Of Agriculture Has the
Project Under Way, and Details Of
the Movement Are Already Decided
on-"Farmers' Institutes For Wo-
men" Is the Slogan.
Convinced that the countrywoman is
not getting the necessary training in
the way to manage home and be-
cause of the fact that instruction in
domestic science is for the most part
confined to students in towns and cities
the department of agriculture has TAX
en- up seriously the question of how to
train the women of the rural districts
to do their work and manage their
homes.
The individual brought up in the
country may suspect that the farmers
wife knows more about running home
properly than her sister In the city, but
the department of agriculture doesn't
feel that way about 1t. 1t finds great
need for instrncting the farmers wives
and daughters In domestic science and
purposes to make beginning through
farmers Institutes for women.
Results Of Ignorance In Home.
According to report on the subject
by John Hamilton, farmers institute
specialist of the department of agricul-
ture, comparatively little is being done
in training women and girls who live
in the country in domestic science or
the management of the home. The
rural schools do little, and other ops
portunities are few Ignorance In the
home Of the proper way to manage It,
Mr.. Hamilton points out, means food
improperly prepared and sanitary con-
ditions neglected. Moreover the selec-
ton and cooking of food and the keep
Ing Of things clean are not all the items
In the duties Of the country
Other problems exist. such as those
connected with the rearing and educa-
ton of children. the clothing Of the
family and the social. intellectual and
aesthetic Improvement of the housewife
herself. ,s
Radical Change In Methods.
According to the census Of 1000.
there were 37,244,145 women and girls
in this country. About 35 per cent, or
over 100000. lived In the rural dis
tricts. Mr.. Hamilton says that to reach
this great multitude with even limited
educational facilities for the study OF
domestic science aud household art
will require, as Mr. Hamilton views 1t,
a radical change IN the methods here
tofore pursued. The introduction Ut
the study of domestic science aud
household art into the rural schools,
the high schools sand the normal
schools is only part Of the work that
will be required.
sWinter schools for adult women
will have to be organized" says Mr..
Hamilton allowable schools In large
numbers will have to be sent out; suit
able demonstration schemes will need
to be devised: expert advisers to visit
country women will have to be en-
| ployed, and publications adapted to
| the capacity and needs of rural house
| wives will have to be introduced into
their homes
Institutes For women.
Farmers institutes heretofore have
been largely conducted for men. II
women attended, they have had to con-
slider the same subjects as the men, az
rule But now the movement for
distinct farmers Institutes for women
Is rapidly growing, and it Is considered
by the department the best agency al
! present to increase the countrywom
! ans knowledge Of domestic science
Last year 732 meetings for country
women were held by the farmers In
stitute directors in the several states
The work in such Institutes Is far from
perfect, but 1t is In the right direction
As In the case Of many other things
other more progressive nations in sucl
matters are far ahead Of the Unite(
States, though the American finds
hard to realize It. Austria, Belgium
Sweden. Norway, Denmark, Switzer
land. France and the German state
have for many years been conductinl
schools Of domestic science and hom
economics specially adapted to coun
try people and also courses of study II
these subjects In fixed institutions Il
towns and cities.
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