The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-12-15
AN UPLIFT MOVEMENT
Domestic Science is of Interest to
Young and Old.

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In connection with the Shor
Courses to be held throughout low
, this winter, the Domestic Science
: Department of the Ames College IL
sending out some interesting letters
The Mahaska County Short Course
will be held in Oskaloosa December
26 to 81. inclusive. All who expect
to have a part in the meeting will be
interested in the following statement
recently received by Secretary F. F
Everett: . -r Al III
tuberculosis costs $1,000, 100000 a
year. The control of crime costs as
much. Add to that the immense sums
paid yearly for the support of the
aims house, the schools OF feeble,
minded and the asylums for the in
sane, you will then have an approx
mate estimate of the enormous was
ties which are distinctly and emphati,
cally preventable but not immediate,
ly preventable, but none the less
preventable. b..
Domestic Science works with the
thought that prevention is the only
wise policy because it save time,
money and human souls. We believe
that the earnest. n1ited efforts of all
thinking men and women along these
lines which make better homes, will
reduce sickness, imbecility and crime
as no other method can do. Domes-
tic Science begins at the root of the
matter. Its first aim is to re-enthuse
the experienced housekeeper. We
must have her interest and enthusi-
asm because we expect the best hous-
keepers in every locality to act as
vital forcs in spreading the gospel of
Good Home Making. We want the
young women to catch the spirit. Our
earnest hopes for splendid homes for
the next generation lies with the girls
and young women who are in the
formation period.
We sometimes hear women say,
"Oh, l am not interested in Domestic
Science, l have been keeping house
for twenty years and l think | know
all that is necessary to be known
about that" If it is true that the
housekeeper finds it possible to learn
her business from start to absolute
finish in twenty years, then hers is
the only business where such is true.
Go with me to doctors convention
and you will find the man of sixty as
interested and as receptive to new
ideas as the man of twenty-five. Go
with me to conventions of lawyers,
preachers, farmers, teachers or bust
ness men, and youi will find the same
thing true. Why are these men
found at these conventions? They
are there because they appreciate
the value of cooperation and the ne
cessity of an exchange of ideas.
If this exchange. of ideas and the
refrigeration is so necessary to the
men and women of all of the occupa-
tions, is it not equally important that
home makers shall continue to study
their business? Are you willing to
acknowledge that home making is
less important than any of these oc'
equations? l am ready to say that
it is more important than any OF
these. If the home making lags IN
interest the home goes wrong. If the
home goes wrong the community
loses the successful good citizens
that are needed to make that COM
munity live up to its possibilities.
Domestic Science does not mean
simply a few new recipes for making
few new dishes. 1t means some
thing infinitely broader and more
useful than that.
1t does not mean simply few new
ways of making new pies and cakes.
1t means a study of those subjects
which will help to give us better
milk and more of 1t, better butter
that brings a better price, more
fresh air in the homes, school and
church, and cleaner back yards and
alleys, a greater number of clean
markets, cleaner hotels, restaurants
and bakeries, more bubble fountains
and fewer public drinking cups, clean
railway trains and street cars that
are s"Gll dllSu dI II CiuShN At'N~A 1907
a greater number of attractive farm
homes and and town homes, more
money spent on good standard books,
we'll chosen pictures and good heat
ing, plumbing and lighting plants in
country and town houses, more coun-
try homes with running water and
convenient bath rooms.
Domestic Science interests itself
in school as well as home improve
ment. 1t helps to give us more rural
schools that are clean, attractive and
conveniently arranged, more rural
schools that have we'll kept lawns,
more rural schools with cases OF well
chosen books in some corner.
Domestic Science is world wide
movement which has for its aim the
betterment of all home and commun-
ity conditions. II aims to aid In
making more of these homes which
shall give US manly, wholesome,
courteous boys, homes which shall
give us fine girls who are prepared
by good training, good health and
fine character to make splendid
homes for the coming generation.
How can you become a part OF this