The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-12
THE HOME.

happy environment of vigorous
childhood. The satisfactory supporter
and encourager of manhood and wo-
manhood and the sure solace and re-
fuge OF old age" 1t certainly ought tc
! be all of this. il could not well be
ideal and be less But how many
Ideal homes are there? How many
homes are the pure source aud happy
environment Of Vigorous childhood!
How many are satisfactory Supporters
ana encouragers OF manhood aud wo-
manhood? How many are the sure
| soiace and refuge OF old age? Why
are we, an intelligent and civilized
people, SO very far from realizing he
best in home life? 1t certainly is not
because We do not desire to have ideal
homes, 1t must be, then, because we
DO not know how TO provide such
homes. And that in truth, Is the
reason What does the great mass of
The American people know about tho
best methods OF developing vigorous
| children? What does it know about
the great subject on which DR.. True
touches in his demand for pure
source and happy environment OF IA
rigorous childhood? What does II know
about making The home the Supporter
and encourager OF manhood and wo-
manhood? What does ii know of the
methods that would lead to the home
protection of the aged? We have
much to learn in our search for hap
piness We have only lately discover
ed that home making Is science -
he greatest science some say, which
man or woman can study We are
.rying to teach home making in our
schools, but the work has just begun.
FIFTY years ago men would have
laughed at the one who suggested
hat the home should be conducted on
scientific principles They would have
meered at the person who advocated
the instruction of our girls in hone
economies. They would have scorn-
July declared that there was nothing
to be done about home that could
not be done by any woman, whether
she was possessed OF brains or not
IL course it requires intelligence and
raining to make good stenographer
or bookkeeper Of the average girl
10 man ever disputed that because It
concerns his world. But d. for maxi
ng good home. pshaw there is
nothing to that but getting a wife, a
place TO live and few children. Pro-
vide the essentials, and the home
makes itself
We proceeded on this theory until
ibont twenty-five year age. Then we
began to realize, as q people, that
While we are making great strides in
business and industry and many Of
he sciences. We are not providing
ourselves with homes hat were much
VI an Improvement over those that
our forefathers had in the days when
he republic was born Perhaps our
attention was called to the matter by
he uprising of factors that threatened
he destruction OF the home The
boarding house, the family hotel and
he apartment hoHse have developed
narYelously within the past few
5ears Nor have they been supported,
wen in a large measure, BY single
men and women. Their best and most
profitable patronage has been from
antilles that have become dissatisfied
With home life as they knew It. We
anne, somehow, 10 understand that
here was something wrong with the
ONE. Pioneers in the field Of inyes-
igation were not long in establishing
he cause. They charged f., and right
y, to ignorance Of the best methods
If home making They preached their
gospel far and wide They are still
preaching 1t and thanks to them, the
PEOPLE are at last awakening They
ire giving thought, perhaps for the
| ir5i time in the history Of the human
ace TO the well-beinS Of future gen
| rations The old idea that what is
| bSJA EiictADA4 A0i AI4V IN 5ODu FAbhE ~
or my children" Is losing its once
Teat army Of supporters One can
| lot clyg to that theory now and ex-
>ect his neighbors TO show to him the
| aspect that is due to intelligence.
Tor the intelligent man knows the
| world on3+ - every child, regardless
| II It's parents Conditions, every eduea-
| ional advantage that the times at
lord. Thus only may we hope TO pro-
| Tess. The future OF the race Is dark
| indeed Ii no child is to be given ad-
| yantaees that its father and mother
| lid not enjoy We educate children
n order TO have better men and WON
IN than lived in the rays when We
went 10 school. We are not 80 much
Interested in making them quicker
1t figures as we are In giving them
/ better understanding than we have
If how to live. When men learn how II
i've, the millennium will have come
We are far, far. from it now, but We
ire creeping closer, and one of the
Test evidences we have Of the fact Is
hat just now we are giving attention
o the difficult science Of home making
the science To which the women oil