The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-24

mother.
Our girls are not to blame for the
false ideas they cherish. Their rear
ing has been such as to make the
American woman today the embodi-
ment of selfishness, and cause her to
abhor the very thought of dishwash-
ing or bread making, or indeed any
personal service.
1t is the right of humanity to be
happy and almost all it's mistakes
are made while engaged in the mad
chase for pleasure, while two-thirds
of her votaries have no more concep-
ton of her face than if they were in
deed blind led by the blind. And so
they fail to recognize her when she Is
overtaken.
Unless a man is more than human
Or Leslie will not be happy in
an unpleasant home, and almost
anything may result The woman
and not the man is essentially the
| home-maker.
He may not even know the cause
; of his dissatisfaction, but will in
| stinctively turn more and more to his
business and his clubs and all posi-
bilities of true happiness are lost.
Among the things humanity must
have for perfect development of body
and mind is perfectly prepared food
and many a life failure-yes even
crime has resulted from violation
of the law.
Great thinkers have seen with the
gravest apprehensions, the tendency
to the disintergration of the home
life and have awakened to the fact
that no other calling can in any way
compare with that of home-making.
And the time is not far distant
when the study of domestic science
will become compulsory as it already
is in Germany.
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course in domestic economy shoul ID
be part of every marriage contract.
If this were true the divorce-mill
would close grinding, for want OF a
grist.
Since our talk is of domestic SCI
ence, we will only add that as mat
ter of balance there should be upon
the other side of the contract-a GER
tificate of manual, agricultural or
some industrial or professional train
ing that should assure the ability of
the husband to provide such living
for family as would forestall the ne
cessity of the wife becoming a wage
Garner, and leave her free to be-
come the ideal home-maker and
house mother.
In the meantime let us change our
false ideals if we possess them or if
they possess us, and give our girls
a chance to acquire the art as well
as the science of housekeeping.
No matter what the social standing
of your daughter. She should have
domestic science. She may become
the chance of a systematic course in
the mistress of many servants, or she
may serve others. In the first case
the training will do more to solve
the servant problem than anything
else possibly could-yes, and, in the
second case as well. For under the
proper teacher she has learned the
law of love, the only law necessary.
Pocatello has been fortunate in
many things, and in nothing more so
than in the Academy of Idaho.
To a prominent woman of our city
is due the fact of this institution pos
sessing early in its history a chair
of domestic science but our women
have not availed themselves as they
ought, the benefit and pleasure to
which it entitled them.
1t was indeed happy day when
the study league accepted the most
gracious offer of Miss Bales to deliver
before them a series of lectures, and
it has proven to be the most profit
able chapter in the history of the
club, and that is saying great deal
for Miss Bales, when We reflect that
some of the most advanced and not
able house wives of the northwest
are among the league members.
But we have not yet told you the
best of Miss Bales; she is the discov-
erer of the Philosophers stone by
which she transmits all domestic
service into pleasure. If any further
proof of this statement is necessary
just get her girls to talk about the
woman and the work. We feel that
very few can compete with Miss
Bales as a teacher and in her far
reaching influence upon the homes
of Idaho, for she is the possessor of