The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-26

A summer school of domestic art ana science for married women.
 This is the laudable scheme of Mrs. Thomas waverly Palmer. wife of the president of the Alabama Girls Industrial school at Montevallo.
 The teachers of the state have their summer schools at the university and the various normal schools of the state, the farmers have their summer schools at Auburn, the bankers have their stated conventions for discussion and the dis semination of information among them selves and all other lines of business and profession have their institutional ad- vantages, but not so the drudging house. wife. sg Mrs. Palmers idea is to assemble the housewives of the state in an institute at Montevallo during each summer for one or more weeks
 The industrial school has admirable equipment and advantages for the study questions that are of peculiar interest to women.
 IL lo very ihiPoi eohl eii1e "ifiiC siiS farmers of Alabama are improving their condition and advancing the cause and profession of agriculture, argues Mrs.
 Palmer, that the farmers housewife im- prove the conditions in the home. The home is the foundation of domestic and business happiness.
 Good bread is an inspiration not only e. +la h,,t tbo ria ppiff of mankind It takes art to bake potatoes right. Education is a good sauce for corn mullins. Hygenic cleanliness is product of information. Good biscuits are potent for civilization and morality. Clean floors and tidy walls, as little as you thing of it, inspires deep blowing and intensive methods in agriculture. A
 sweet kitchen is Cupid's favorite sabiding place.
 "Then it is very important that the housewives of Alabama become deeply interested in home economies" says Mrs. Palmer. This is an age of educational uplift and the agricultural interests are in the forefront of the movement.
 While the farmers of the state are rapidly improving their conditions and their methods their wives should be awake to every advantage for the inn provement of the home conditions. They should prepare themselves to give practi- fical sympathy and aid to their husbands.
 We have here at the industrial school most excellent equipment for the instruc- ton of housewives in the domestic arts and sciences. It belongs to the state, Is for the benefit of the people, and they should be given the advantage of every opportunity offered
 "A short summer term at the school could be made not only pleasant but most profitable to the married women of the state. It would be made a pleasant out | ing for the tired housewife and she would have an opportunity to study the best
 methods in cooking, sewing, housekeep- | ing, dairying and the many other things l that tax her mind and energies every day.
 we will soon have completed here one of the finest and best dairies in the south It Is planned on modern lines and should be a fine object lesson to the people, The housewife should be able to inform herself of the best methods of handling her dairy products in the man. agement of this dairy. Since milk is
 one of the most important foods for child and adult 1t is very important that 1t be
 handled with the greatest care. Proper
 handling of milk often means life or
 death
 | "Absolute cleanliness is imperative. Sc
 it is with every other department of
 the culinary system of the household" l Mrs. Palmer is very enthusiastic over
 the idea of the summer school at Monte vallo and is receiving hearty response
 to the suggestion.
 l She is a most admirable and efficient I helpmate to her husband who Is labor. ing hard for the success of the Alabama Girls Industrial school. A large part ol the success that has been attained Is
 due to her sympathetic advice and help