Evening star., 1911-05-28

ness college course Of their brothers and
thereupon have with US generation OF
check. bank draft and post fAhce
money order explain, by their very ap-
pearance. their variation from type; who
can tell why is a railway time table without
batting an eye. and who are able at
glance to distinguish a set OF doubleentry
books kept by an expert from a three ply,
copper-rivtted wash boiler or Paris
frock with broderie incrustations all up
and down the front of It?
Or shall we. setting aside and repudi-
ating either as utterly out OF date or
completely unwomanly both OF the
courses Of study hereinbefore indicated.
proceed entirely along the lines OF tho
domestic science expert and produce a
large army Of pink-cheeked. white-crap-
ed, perfectly elegant housekeepers who
measure every ingredient in glass
masuring cup. thus avoiding the slight
est suspicion OF germs. microbes or other
bacilli, boil the water, and place upon
the output the pure food stamp now de-
manded by the interstate pure food regu-
lations lately put forth by many Of our
most advanced general assemblies7
These are serious and important ques-
tons.
Shall we who have been called the
professional marriers' Of the world be
educated for romance, for business life
or for the domstic field?
Shall 1t come to pass that life shall
readily reached by means OF short
pause at the hymeneal altar, as a path
Of duty to be trod without fiinching from
the typewriter to the preparatory pur-
chasing for our annual white goods sale,
varied only by the occasional excursion
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clinical thermometer; or shall the human
race appear to our broadening vision
supply as a large collection Of people
waiting patiently to be fed upon the per
feet ration1
There are those here and there In
numbers sufficient to encourage them to
rush into print in defense Of our happy
homes and to demand passionateiy that
the innocence OF our young girls shall
without finching for the first proposition.
Then again, there appears a capable
lady who demands that girls Of the pres
ent age shall be placed at no unfair dis
advantage as compared with their broth
ers. but that they be trained TO meet and
fight the world as 1t is. and not be per
mitted to butt their heads. all wrapped
up in pink mists. against the hard rock
OF our prevailing commercial standards
But II Is the Sclentlncally domestic
education which is bringing out the larg-
est number of people in Its support.
Teach our girls to cook and keep
house" they cry, because mother doesn't
do II any more. and II our girls fail to
learn how to cook and keep house. upon
them be the blame when this great re-
public shall come down in ruins upon the
heads of its citizens"
'.Send the girls to some good cooking
school," they demand. "and let them
learn how to keep house SO their hus-
bands do not have to go to the corner
grocery and lunch on crackers and cheese
because their wives don't know how to
nut a decent meal on the table
There's something in this idea. too.
shouldn't wonder.
Yet. not wishing to rush headlong into
a state of opinion. have notion that
ia like to see II there mightn't be some
thing In some other ideas.
For instance. eliminating as almost en-
ttrely useless the first line OF thought
II might be well worth while considering
that every now and then a girl occurs
who has a holy horror of cooking. who
at the same time shows a marked and
emphatic taste and capacity along certain
other lines of endeavor
This, you declare should not act as a
bag 10 prevent her from doing her duty2