The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-25

Supt. Sf ManltOWOc 90.
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Supt. of Calumet Co.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE IN THE SCHOOLS.
(lda Cragg Chatterson)
The extent domestic science should be
taught in our public schools is only to
be decided by the amount of time and
money to be expended; but surely enough
to prepare plain, wholesome meals, in.
Guiding the proper selection of food,
with instruction as to the nutritlve val
he, compared with the price. One of
the practical lessons in domestic science
is u visit to the markets to study food.
stutfs and the different cuts of meat fol.
lowed by instruction as to the best way
to prepare and cook such, so ~ to make
each palatable and nourishing, and to
conform to the daily needs of the body.
Then something of sanitation and by.
giene should be taught, to insure health
and cleanliness and if there be time
something of sewing and making plain
articles of clothing.
One lesson in the Alumnae Club
School of Domestic Science was the Civ
purchase a suitable lunch for child re-.
turning from school; each to take into
consideration the nourlshlnent contain.
ed in the food furnished, as well as keep,
ing strict account to the fraction of IA
| cent the class bought the materials and
cooked the lunch in school; none exceed
ed 10 cents, and there was great sur
prise at the varied menus furnished
Many other such practical lessons were
given.
The only argument that ever heard
advanced against domestic science in the
schools was that these things should be
taught at home, and the same argument
could be used against, reading, arithme-
tic, etc, bat with little intelligent
study along these lines and one will find
handles the plain things of life, that it
ia n science which requires our best ef
forts and thoughts.
1t was Gen, Francis Walker who once
said that America was suffering from
two great curses indigestion and alec.
holism-due 20 one and the same cause
the inability of the women Of the mid
die class TO prepare wholesome and
nourishing food And do not think
he need have confined it to the middle
class" If this be true, and with my ex
perience ~ director of the Alnmnae Club
School of Domestic Science believe il
Should we not insist upon snch instruc.
tion in the public schools as will relieve
women Of such an indictment, and il
not cookery and home science as inn
portant as any other subject?
Food badly selected, more badly cook
ed and most badly served, causes discon
tent, bad health and friction, causng
outbursts Of i'll temper among those who
by ties of blood are near, and should be
dear, and the home become unattructive
and i'll kept not only the family but the
nation suffers; and it is Il fact that n
well kept, well nourished child will
make brighter, better citizen.
1t is asserted that the largest part of
the worlds wealth il consumed in house.
hold expenditures, and that neither the
producer nor the consumer is acquainted
with or has knowledge Of the correct
principles governing such expenditures
Such being the case, it is Il subject under
the capital and labor problem, and as
such demands economic consideration
from men and women. Josiah Allen =
wife thus disposes Of the subject mo
ment may scott at the idee, good house
keeping and vittala play u most impor.
tant part in the home of married bliss
sometimes ! think it plays the highest
bugle in the orchestry
As women must know something Of
everything from dinners to dollars
plumbing to poetry, hygiene to hats, and
fractions to French, she will come near,
er getting it in domestic science than in
any other one subject. The highest
form of education il that which is Of the
greatest utility to the world, and to dis