Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

versity are held by the University Of Mis-
souri,, and the model Kitchen is so arranged
that Il can be transferred % any point
where It's use Is required.
Kansas State Agricultural college issues
bulletins on bread making and other do
mestic subjects and holds lectures ana
demonstration courses In different parts OF
the state. sixteen OF them last year. Iowa
State Agricultural college gives such
courses at farmers Institutes, women
clubs, county fairs, teachers institutes
schools and colleges. one member Of the
college faculty gave IN seven recent months
226 such lectures outside the college.
In Colorado the state Agricultural college
holds extension courses one week in length
all over the state, for which fee OF 81
is charged each pupil The average num-
Der Of women attending such courses is 200
At one held in winter in a mining camp
women walked to and from the class
through the snow from points three miles
distant.
Colleges in Railroad Cars.
Cornell Instituted the reading course for
farmers wives, which has now 11SOO mem
bers; It has organized rural women's clubs
for the study Of domestic and cultural sub
iects, and holds an annual home makers
conference during farmers week at the
college, with exhibits of the model kitchen,
laundry equipment and labor-saving de-
vices Of the homo economics department
Of the university and lectures and DEM
onstrations by members of the staff.
Two southern states have developed the
most ingenious system of taking the gospel
Of good cookery to the people. Maryland
Agricultural college bought the second hand
private car of a railroad superintendent,
containing kitchen, hot water device and
lockers for stores. 1t was fitted up with
chairs, blackboards and stereopticon, with
an apparatus for making acetylene gas
for the latter. This car runs through the
country to give lectures on domestic
science and agriculture. Miss Anna Bar
rows Of Teachers college has made lee
ture trips on this car.
The North Carolina Department of Agri-
culture runs two similar cars, which are
furnished and hauled free OF charge by
one of the railroads OF the state. These
cars were used for thirty Institutes last
year, one Of them being used for the agri-
cultural lectures and the other for domestic
science work. The report Of the superin-
tendent declared that the results were
specially satisfactory with the latter car.
These cars come the nearest OF anything
in America to the travelling cooking schools
of Germany and the travelling college Of
Italy in which the Department of Agri-
culture sends instruction to the farmers.
This new movement for scientific instrlc-
tion in hOusework jumped directly from
America to Japan. Miss Ume Tsudas Eng
lish institute in Toxic is one, of the three
private institutions for higher education in
Japan whose graduates receive government
license to teach in secondary schools with
out further examination. Miss Tsuda
spent thirteen years in America completing
her education by a postgraduate course
at Bryn Mawr. Her domestic science de-
partment, the first in Japan, Is under the
charge of Miss ,Yoshi Kawashlma, a gradu-
ate of Simmons college in Boston.
With hundreds of teachers being trained
In the universities. with thousands of
housewives in attendance at university ex-
tension courses, and with millions of girls
taking housework as part of their public
school course, it seems likely that cooking
and housekeeping are going to improve
very signally in the United States 1t is
really new thing in the history of the
world that the taxpayers money should
be used to teach women how to keep house
This capture Of public funds for such a
purpose is due to the women themselves
Originated I'm the Beecher Brain.
It. originated with American women and
in the Beecher brain. So far as any in
vestigator has been able to discover Cath
crime Beechers Hartford Female seminary,
opened in 1891, was the first school in the
world to teach girls anything about the
care of the home. This was sixty-two
years before the first public school kitchen
opened in America. rhe book published by
Catherine in collaboration with her famous
sister, Harriet, in 1S4O was likewise the
first book of the kind on the subject Of
domestic science
Some things in that book make quaint
reading nowadays. In her preface Cath
crime deposed that men can secure di-
plomas. certificates or other, credentials
which will fix their authority to speak on
any given subject. But no such source ex-
lists from which she may draw. credentials
ana therefore she Is obliged to state what
authority she has to speak on the matter.
She therefore, relates her training under
her mother, her aunt and her stepmother
and tells what good cooks and housekeep-
ers they all were.
The whole movement for the incorpora-
ton OF domestic science in the educational
system is essentially only carrying out
OF the idea of the Beecher sisters as ex-
pressed in this paragraph.
The book opens with a chapter on THE
Christian Family" and goes on to "The
Christian Home" 1t treats of every house
hold theme from the moulding boards to
the care Of the sick. from rolling pins to
sanitation, ventilation, dressmaking. care
OF infants, domestic amusements, social
duties and the training of children. Each
branch OF which. it treats has now a
highly specialized literature Of its own;
nay, salads, soups, each feature of the
menu has its own literature.
When the other SEX" continues the
preface. are 10 be instructed In law,
medicine or divinity they are favored with
numerous institutions, richly endowed, with
teachers Of the highest talents and ac-
auirements with extensive libraries and
abundant and costly apparatus. With such
advantages they devote nearly ten Of the
best years Of their lives to prepare them
selves for their profession.
''Woman's profession embraces the care
and nursing Of the body at the critical
periods of infancy and sickness; the train
Ing Of the human mind in the most impress
sible period OF childhood, and most OF the
government and economics Of the family