Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-09-27


Gordon and Margaret Duckett, form
erly of Greenwood, South Carolina, en-
tered the eighth and first grades re-
spectively, Monday morning.
1t had been planned to have morning
sessions only on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of this week, but lowing to
the fact that the Carnival was post
poned, school was held as usual.
The various literary societies elected
officers for the year 1928 Friday at
ter school, with the following results:
Hawkeye Society,"
President-W barrow.
Vice President-Ka Watson.
Secretary-Cecil Johnson.
Deliver Society,"
President-Rufus Culver.
Vice President George Hamilton.
Secretary-Henry Patterson.
Roosevelt Society,"
Harley Gill.
Vice President Jessie Smart.
Secretary-Laura Cameron,
Roberts Society,"
President Winifred Evans.
Vice President-John Kakac.
Secretary Emily Hunting.
An editorial in the Ladies Home
Journal for October is of interest to US
because we have recently established
q Domestic Science course. Being new
in the work, we do not know whether
the statements made in the editorial
are true or not, but if they are, we
trust the mothers of Cresco will be
forewarned and that the work here in
Cresco will not suffer because of their
indifference, as it seem to have done in
other places. The editorial follows:
ALREADY the Domestic Science course
and schools, even as far as if they have
gone, are bringing salient point to
the surface: that their efforts with their
student in the classes are not supple
mented by the mothers in the homes.
Girls in these domestic courses and
schools are found to be keen in their
interests in home economics for the
first six months; then their interests
begin to wane. Naturally it was at
first thought that this was due to the
girles themselves and to the youthful
habit of firing of a. novelty. But the
fact is being brought out that at home
they are not encouraged by their moth
ers; that they are not allowed to 60 in
to the kitchen, and the mothers are
apt to make light of what they call
new tangled notions about housekeep-
ng.'' The result is in the cases of
scores of girls that what is begun in
born of natural instinct
Is killed at home by lack of encourage
nent. and q mutual desire is allowed
% come to an unnatural and untimely
md. 1t will, indeed, be tragic ar
alignment of the home if it is found
that in the end the present tend
,ncy to teach normal girls the normal
lessons of their lives is discouraged in
The home, the very place where every
should be put forth to give
these lessons the chance to expand and
develop. This same criticism is COM
ing, too, from the schools where the
care of babies and sex hygiene are be-
ing taught; the killing encouragement
of which the girls meet in their own
homes and at the bonds of their moth
ers who refuse to recognize that the
new and more enlightened ways of
housekeeping, child care and child
trsining are aught but "new-fangled
notions"
C. L. Tiss and wife of Mason City
visited the formers brother, Prot. A.
|. Tiss and wife, the fore part of the
week.
j The Cresco high school football team
is playing the first game of the season
with Usage High School at the latter
place today, (Friday.)