Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-11-22

prompted them TO toss in disgust sue
unpaiatable, unappetizing food in tn,
waste cans. and saunter off to IN,
store to buy something more attractiy,
and possibly very unwholesome? Will
this information in sight can you tall
about home being the place to teach
cookery? How many of the average
home makers and housekeepers can
tell you the value of foods from a
physiological stand point or prepare a
menu or arrange meal with any
scientific knowledge? How many
know anything of the value and i'm
portance of household economy, or of
the many labor saving devices to be
had so cheaply? The waste in many
homes is appalling, and who is to
blame? Certainly not the homemaker,
for she has received no training in
these things, no instruction has been
given in the chemistry of food and
food values. | am extremely loyal to
alma mater, but | could have wished
many times in later years that the
time spent in the study of chemistry
had been productive of more practical
results. Beyond few formulate and
the analysis of water, and perhaps one
or two experiments of similar nature
| remember nothing definite of several
years work. Suppose had heen
allowed and required to make tests of
milk from n standpoint of purity :;
to test baking powders and buffers,
sugars, etc, regarding their lack of
adulteration, how appreciative
might have been when 1t became ex-
pedlent to take course in Domestic
Science. ! might have been spared n
costly year of preparation and the
financial loss attendant upon fur
Tough for year.
Did you ever pause to think thnt
the only science in which every
human being is vitality interested
daily and three times day is the one
most frequently omitted from the
curricula of our high schools-n cur
i'S"i" So ilcH In sciences TINT III
would Ito honor to n full-ne,igcd
University. Again, we employ the
cheapest labor and consequently the
most ignorant to prepare our meals
and deliberately trust our health to
those to whom we hesitate To trust
anything else, and this is in the Goth
century of enlightenment; We stand
up and discourse by the hour on
digestion and value of foods to our
classes in physiology and when the
bell for dismissal rings the matter is
ended. Prof. Ritche's carefully pre-
peared table of food and food values
is to be studied from the text and
that il alive have done our duty.
We teachers complain often that
our pupils do not assimlate our in
telllectual offerings, they are 80
stupid and dull. But we forget that
II sound, well nourished body is con-
ducive to readily receptive mind.
A visit to many of the isolated homes
in most communities is an eye opener
as far as the lack of the things goes
The question of proper nourshment
of the pupil is deserving of serious
consideration for it is not actual want
but Ignorance of how to prepare the
material that is so in evidence. The
report of the American Educational
Society for 1908 gives most interest
ing data and advice along this phase
of school life, and will furnish in
terestlng reading for any teacher. If
| had to live in some communities
I'd take my text. Domestic Science,
and I'D preach it until they needed
or until they put me out. to boards,
patrons, children, everybody and
anybody.
BOSTON. New York City and Chi
cago have long since realized this
tate of affairs and have remedied it.
| am firm believer in this statement,
that what is good enough for the city
child is not quite good enough for the
rural child, for surely they deserve
and merit the very best from the
very nature of their isolation.
1t has been my pleasure to spend
weeks in observation in New York
City schools, especially in the East
side, which is the dumping ground
for the outcasts of Europe. The
school populato ion is almost entirely
of foreign birth, representing every
nation on earth. Here is where New
York spends her money. One of the
most interesting sights ever wit
messed in class room was a class of
Yiddish girls-5O, ranging in age
from 10 to Id, file in the Domestic
Science Department, and according to
previous training each one to her
appointed place, and without a word
from the teacher begin to prepare
and serve daintily a luncheon that
was credit to any one, the only
instructions being the written direc-
tions and supervisory caution of the
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