The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-08
harvested and the country faces a
prosperous holiday and promising
new year. a great domestic science

prosperous holiday and promising
new year, great domestic science
laboratory Is to- be opened at Omaha
inconnection with the National Corn
exposition. Jessica E. Besack of
Columbia university is to be director
of the woman's department at the ex-
position. She will be in charge Of the
domestic science kitchen.
The Cost to Be Little.
Here six hundred girls may work
about their ranges to secure actual
experience in practical scientific cook
ing. In big sewing room they may
see the results Of painstaking study
of domestic art, exhibits of women's
wardrobes, complete, attractive, vet
build up by patient and intelligent
planning covering period of years,
reducing the expenditure for dress to
the minimum.
Cost of such course to the girls
Is practically nothing. During the
two weeks of the exposition the con-
vents and girls schools of Omaha
will open their doors to the girls and
they may stay free of expense while
attending the lectures by instructors
from dozen state colleges and
schools. while working in their modef
kitchens and dining rooms under the
eyes of the experts.
In the kitchen they will learn to
cut out all waste, to use the least pos
sible amount of expensive materials,
such as butter, eggs, milk and sugar.
To bake many things without eggs
when eggs are scarce and high IN
price, to bake without butter when It
is high. and to substitute these foods
for other things when the egg and
butter market is down and the farm
er's wife is compelled almost to give
away the products of her dairy and
poultry yard.
The making of palatable dishes
from cheap cuts of meat, as the ships
cook converts salt pork into dishes
rivaling the city chefs creations and
serves it in SO many styles that pas
sengers relish Common pork" daily,
is one of the things the girls in the
big corn show kitchen can learn dur
ing the two weeks from December
to 18.
These dishes are combined with
others equally as cheap to make a
! wholesome meal at the minimum of
cost. For instance, hot German po-
tato salad has bacon in it. 1t utilizes
both the bacon and the drippIngs,
costing less than it costs to serve
bacon and potatoes for meal.
While attending the short courses,
caps for wear in the kitchen, aprons
for home wear, plain print cloth
dresses are nade.s
Not the least Important are the lit
tie things, sewing on buttons so that
the thread will bear the strain rather
than he cloth, and the work of SQUARE
end button holes.
One OF the lines of work in the
woman's department for which gen.
erous prizes in gold. are offered is
darning. The scSsre tfMrning of hos
iery and the patching of wooden goods
are two desirable things for any
young woman to master. To encour-
age efficiency the exposition offers
prizes of from 50 to $25 to the young
woman doing the best work in patch
ing and darning.
Will Keep Young Women on Farms.
Art needle work is luxury. But
to be able to put art into the plain
sewing for the home is an accomplish
ment which any young woman may
! well strive to master.
| Thus the short course in domestic
science and art is to be the fore
runner Of the movement which will
have for a result the dignifying of
housework and the keeping of young
women on the farms. They will rush
into the kitchen instead of into the
Office. False ideas of housework have
drawn young women into the cities.
They have been genius stricken" or
conceived the idea that they were
created for better things than to cook
and sew, and mapped OUT careers
for themselves. They went to the
CITY," the neighbors say-and there
the history ends abruptly.
Then men are universally the
same. After all, they would rather
have their "samp and milk" If served
amid clean. and pleasant surround
ings, and by homespun beauty pour
ed.
BAD WRECK.