Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-17

I teachers % these classes the most sug-
cestlve and helpful aid And import
| ant as is the Increase In the quality
and quantity OF wheat or beets per
acre. stil more important to the coun-
try are the health and the mental and
moral well being OF the young people
who are expected TO raise these larger
crops
Tho last fact mentioned shows that
the help Of physicians viii be needed
for advice upon health and food topics
and upon sanitary living In general
But since the mental and spiritual
health u the future citizen r. in no
way less important a. an element Of
manhood and womanhood than IS the
quality OF the work or the quantity OF
the crops they raise, II viii be seen
that the moral and spiritual forces OF
the community should be enlisted IN
the same service
In other words this institute work,
70 be most effective. cannot be con-
hned merely 10 approved methods Of
agriculture II must include some of
the more general training Of youth.
and is therefore large undertakings
which IL viii pay the people to encour-
age.
Institutes for women. according to a
bulletin on the subject issued by the
Department OF Agriculture. are adj
vancing rapidly In 1905, twenty-one
states maintained women's Institutes
and seven others had women lecturers
on their regular force. There was
total Of 1872 meetings for country wo-
men held.
1t is believed by the writer of the
bulletin that the Institutes viii do much
10 pave the way for introducing domes-
tic science and household art into the
schools Of the country.
While the men learn TO quadruple
the crops the girls are learning 20 re-
duce the cost OF living almost one
half In the fields and orchards the
farmer creates new cereals and trees;
in the kitchen the women viii create
new and nutritious foods without the
use Of eggs butter and high priced
meats. As the young men eliminate
quilted hillsides by systematic tree
planting. the young women win elm
mate waste in the home by studying
textiles and by systematic buying TO
build up their wardrobes one season at
a time.
large institute is planned for the
Omaha National Corn Exposition to
be held after the seasons crops have
been gathered. In II, under Jessica Z.
Besack OF Columbia University. about
six hundred girls may work about
their ranges to secure actual expert
ence in practical scientific cooking. In
a big sewing room they may see the
results Of painstaking study Of domestic
art, exhibits OF women's wardrobes,
complete. attractive. yet built up by pa
tient and intelligent planning covering
a period Of years and reducing the ex-
penditure for dress 10 the minimum.
To eliminate waste in cooking and
table fare. 10 bake many things with
out eggs or butter, TO make palatable
dishes from cheap cuts OF meat. TO sew
on buttons so that the thread instead
OF the cloth shall bear the strain. to
learn 10 darn and patch with artistic
skill and speed-these are declared TO
be some OF the objects OF this institute
school for women. which IL 70 cost
practically nothing TO those who take
n.
II is moreover. positively entertain
ing 10 note that the projectors OF this
feature Of the Exposition claim that it
will be the forerunner OF a general
movement which will have for its OBJ
jet the Identifying Of homework and
the keeping Of young women on the
farms. "They will rush into the kit
chen" the promoters say. instead OF
into the Office. False ideas Of house
work have drawn young women into
the cities. They. have been genius
stricken or have conceived the idea
that they were created for better
things, than to cook and sew and so
have mapped OUT careers for them
selves. They went TO the city the
neighbors say-and there the history
ends abruptly"
We hope that the aims OF the
Omaha school may be In some substan-
tlal degree realized. We also hope that
our own state farmers institute work
may eventually he broad enough IN
scope and well enough patronized by
| the people 10 make actual that general
uplifting OF the younger people. OF
which we have spoken as well a. the
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