Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-13

tee, was detained at home on account
of the serious illness of her husband,
Major Purdon. In her stead Mrs. G..
H. Parker of Leeds, submitted the
report of the committee, a summary
of which is as follows:
1t is a hopeful sign when the business
of keeping home has come once more
to be the fashion. TO be sure, it mas
querades under the various names of
domestic economy, household science,
home economies, and SO on; but the
vital element is there, and women all
over the country are interested in learn
ing the principles Of housekeeping and
i'll teaching them to the younger gen
erations.
There are reasons why the standard
of home making in the United States
has gradually been lowered. First, the
war took the bread-winners, and the
! woman who took keen pride in her
| housewifelv duties had to go out into
the industrial world. forsaking her ira
ditions and giving her time to affairs
! beyond the home. Again, hordes of our
| immigrants have come from the lowest
ranks of the old world with little or no
! knowledge of what constitutes right liv-
| ing And right living in its widest ac-
! ccptation means to produce sane mind
in a sane body, in order that healthy
bodies and wholesome morals may Gre
ate the highest possible class of citizens
| in our own countrymen and women.
With every year a greater number OF
our young women are absorbed into the
business world. Instead of training
for home life, it has come to be the
custom for a girl to discuss what she
| will take up-whether her entrance into
the realm of industry shall be in stem
| ography, typewriting, bookkeeping or
| millinery; and to that end she prepares
herself by schooling in whatever thing
she determines upon. Yet every one of
these young women expect eventually to
marry and found home, and what, if
real life work?
Some one has aptly said that as the
father asks, Can you ia Ike care of my
daughter?" the sons mother should in
quire, Can you so manage my sons
income that he will have as comfortable
home with you as with me?" Girls
should be urged to fit themselves for
the duties of housekeeping, just as they
| fit themselves for the need of possible
employers and there are schools of SCI
ence where for small consideration
such training may be had if it cannot
be learned at home.
Now scientific care of the home does
not come by instinct or by inspiration,
| -, ,- .,,,,,, fo,,J11, ho1;o,a Thoro ora
great and fundamental truths in the
sciences of physics, chemistry, biology
and economics, and it is these principles
that domestic science takes up and ap-
plies to the facts and acts of daily life.
| There are principles to be learned in
the production and preparation of food
and clothing, of sanitation, of hygiene,
of home decoration, of the management
of the income. AS the best and Sue
! cessful business man sees to it that his
| expenses are reduced to minimum, that
| there is no waste of time, energy or
money, so the mistress of the home
| should look to it that her house is run
on strict business principles.
Beyond few desulttary sessions on
household economy there has been little
| cr1Ort OF our CLUBS 1OI 1ull investigator
of the science of this subject, and it is
4he scientific element that we should
strive to attain. More and more are
the practical things of life being re-
duced to sciences-principles, evolved
by expert experimentrfs, and these rules
systematized for the benefit of those
who care to learn. More and more,
too, is the study of these scientific
truths urged as part of our public school
courses.
The women must realize the import
ance of the scientific study of home
keeping and in allowing no opportunity
to pass that may help bring it before
the public. The club women should
have lecturers with demonstrations, and
constantly press the subject upon the
attention of the public. They should
| neglect no opportunity to urge the
teaching of domestic science in the pub
lee schools. With a definite aim N
view, results vii follow in time. For
| # is true, as Mrs. Sigourney has said,
that "the strength of nation, especial