The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-01-26
SCIENCE OF
THE HOME

1 partial SXpidlatlOn IN the SlTlQeS -naue
by the Department of Household
science. the auxiliary to the Farmers
| Institute which at its annual conven-
tion in February will represent Al
] county organizations. The president
/ Mrs. Mckeene, of Springfield, in her
| review says: Just as the boy needs
the study of mathematics and other
higher branches if he is to become a
! merchant, he needs to study the use
of his hands, If he is to become a
tradeS-nan; So if he is to become
| successful farmer he must study the
chemistry of the soils, the crops best
| suited to them. And SO our girls
should be taught the chemistry of
| foods, the best methods of preparing
them, and to plan and make the gar
| neltS sac must wear A girls natur-
al destiny is home-making. So wide
spread has become the recognized
need of such knowledge that our city
| schools are meeting the demands bv
| introducing the various branches of
| domestic training, and the boys and
girls are being taught the best meth
| ods of handling their respective tools.
| from the primary grades up through
the manual training and high schools.
! The more lighly educated girls are
these days the less they know about
home making, according to an investi-
CATION reported by student. "A
young married man in Chicago, told
me that he had no married friends
| among all the young men wlom he
knew, who were not head over heels
in debit, says the report. 1T was a
startling statement from a man with
a large acquaintance. Some will say
| that the cause of this is simply So
cial conditions, such as tae price of
rent and food materials OF course
this does make il hard, bat YOU can
not look into these homes individually
| without seeing that there is a better
explanation back of it all. The girls
have not been properly educated for
| their business. French, music and La
| tin fail to help young housekeeper
| when she is hopelessly at the nercv
of an inpudent, ignorant extravagant
| cook. Nothing in her past experience
has taught ner how to keep accounts.
Her hardwood floors are washed witt
| water because she knows no better
and it costs to have the finish restor-
ed. Good food materials are ruined
by poor cooking"
The cheaper cost of living in Cana
ia than the United States, revealed
by the investigations into relative
prices of meat, vegetables and other
| necessities now and one and two
years ago, proves to be a homely but
| mpelling reason for tae exodus to the
new lands of Western Canada. II
suddenly hobs up as a factor in the
| migrations of Uncle Sans uneasy
millions which probably was not con-
sidered by officials of the Canadian
/ Northern and the Grand Trunk Paci-
| fic in estimates that the total mum
Der of emigrants from the United
States would grow from the 100000 OF
1909 to 125,0O0 in 1910. The cheapest
| cuts of beef were found to be 10 cts.
per pound in Detroit as compared VITA
| 5la cents in Canadian city about the
| same size. Cabbages were 8 to l.
cents in Detroit as against 5 to cts
in Canada, turkeys 25 cents as com
pared to 20 cents, chickens Is as a
gainst IL cents, salt pork 90 as against
13 cents. While the consumer in De
troit pays 30 cents a pound for butte
the consumer in Alberta pays only 3
| cents, and in other words the farmer
| If Alberta is getting more for the
butter he sells than the farmer near
Detroit, a heneficent condition which
has been made possible by the estab-
lishment of government dairies along
the new lines of the Canadian Nor
thern and Grand Trunk Pacific by
the Albert Government Moreover
plug tobacco. always more or less es-
sential in farm work. costs two and
three times as much in the states as
in the Dominion The cost of wool
ems and cotton fabrics has become
so much higher south of the inter
national boundary than north of il as
result of the tariff reductions" un-
der the Payne bill that clothing does
not begin to cut into the household
budget of the settlers in Alberta, as
1t does everywhere in the United
States be it a wool growing orwool
spinning section or not. The same Is
true as to shoes. The result of the
inquiry is likely to increase the i'm
ports across "the line"
Trains to California leave Chicago
loaded to the platforms of the last
extra Pullmans. not only with tourists
but with mechanics and farmers wac
are looking mp the region of smal
farms for intensive farming and elini
nation of the help" problem. The
trials caused by the lack Of compe
tent help In the middle west, ever
III Continued on Paee Four.)