The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-01-20
NATION TO TEACH
ROUSEKE EPINC
Government Plans to Teach Do
nestle Science to Women.
TO AID THE FARMERS WIVES
Department of Agriculture Has the
Project Under Way, and Details of
the Movement Are Already Decided
on-"Farmers' Institutes For Wo-
men" Is the Slogan.

the Movement Are Already Decide
On-"Farmers' Institutes For VIZ
men" Is the Slogan.
Convinced that the country
not getting the necessary training
the way to manage a home and b.
cause of the fact that instruction
domestic science is for the most pal
confined TO students in towns and cite
the department of agriculture has tai
en- up seriously the question Of how t
train the women of the rural district
to do their work and manage thei
homes.
The individual brought up in tn
country may suspect that the farmer
| wife knows more about running HON
properly than her sister in the city, bu
! the department of agriculture doesn'
| feel that way about It. 1t finds grea
need for instructing the farmers wlve
and daughters in domestic science an,
purposes to make beginning through
farmers institutes for women.
Results Of Ignorance In Home.
According to a report on the subjec
by John Hamilton, farmers institute
specialist OF the department of agricul
ture, comparatively little is being done
in training women and girls who live
in the country in domestic science oil
the management of the home. The
rural schools do little. and other op.
portunities are few. Ignorance in the
home of the proper way to manage it,
Mr. Hamilton points out, means food
improperly prepared and sanitary con-
ditions neglected. Moreover, the selec-
ton and cooking of food and the keep
ing of things clean are not all the items
in the duties of the countrywoman.
Other problems exist, such as those
connected with the rearing and educa-
ton of children, the clothing of the
family and the social, intellectual and
aesthetic Improvement of the housewife
herself.
Radical Change In Methods.
According to the census of 1000,
there were 37,244.145 women and girls
in this country. About SO per cent, or
over 100000, lived in the rural dis
tricts. Mr.. Hamilton says that to reach
this great multitude with even limited
educational facilities for the study of
domestic science and household art
will require. as Mr.. Hamilton views it,
a radical change in the methods here
tofore pursued. The introduction of
the study of domestic science and
household art into the rural schools,
the high schools and the normal
schools is only Il part of the work that
will be required.
winter schools for adult women
will have to be organized" says Mr..
Hamilton. Movable schools in large
numbers will have to be sent out; suit
able demonstration schemes will need
to be devised; expert advisers to visit
will have to be en-
ployed, and publications adapted to
the capacity and needs of rural house
wives will have to be introduced into
their homes"
Institutes For Women.
Farmers institutes heretofore nave
been largely conducted for men. If
women attended, they have had to con-
slider the same subjects as the men, as
4 rule. But now the movement for
distinct farmers institutes for women
IS rapidly growing. and it is considered
)y the department the best agency at
present TO increase the countrywom-
ms knowledge of domestic science.
LAST year 49, meetings for country
We're held by the farmers in
titute directors in the several states.
The work in such institutes is far from
perfect, but Il is in the right direction
AS in the case of many other things,
'ther more progressive nations in such
matters are far ahead of the United
states, though the American finds it |
lard to realize il. Austria, Belgium,
sweden, Norway, Denmark Switzer |
and. France and the German states !
ave for many years been conducting |
chools of domestic science and home |
economies specially adapted to coun-
~ people and also courses of study in |
heSe subjects in fixed institutions in