Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-26
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Astronomy Versus Housekeeping

'NSH housekeeping
- HE ws a bright college girl and she a saying, I'm college. they
and Hsa a great ms "nnSr 4 tbmsa ii and md astronomy str and ancient s history,
- existence But they left me ignorant of the very things that sur.
carpets. nothing of furniture. And now that have come aI to- the time time that at
n uo ounce 20 on moo sSod these things tor myaelt I am as helpless AZ If I never had
every home-makeT needs and uses daily"
Yet perfectly helpless when confronted with the real problems Of life,
hasn't a single idea upon the subject Of drains in in tm4 cellar la ~I She pu I an
ne ~ cs lore or OF botany at her hnser-ups. but she does not know the food value
before a tS.m mt isn't Pst the .,. girls a..1 fault ,. They master r eagerly all that 4. put
I ber Aad aIoa,tnn" they ar compelled to depend upon those who make out
the battle of. life for themselves that they discover they have fed upon
Many Of us know It IN our w m3 s rnsr saplafe 16saq oo n n m 49, r.
S e foiG sn neDss ,n snn. Ut US IL. not note, conjecture ~ tma, It is 40 p@sinisn One sue;
sec~sa tnet was OF any practical value to her from her years of schooling
and historical data. All the rest, she said, she had absolutely forgotten
that she had never heard Of again after s she n had left Sfs school, ~ho 'Oo Is ,o sas1ss
sbso s9% 6a a, san a Il" que questions s,s IS she had come across terms tina. were
sooao,isFy, AND she wa no. a Indifferent student. She had graduated
these very branches had been 100.
So it does eem as IL a lot of valuable time is wasted. and that boys and
girls are sent forth from school into the world to And it a very dineren,
'"" what g an, ms. ~ s mo ma 70 expect,
% Ia We "a buy suitable clothing for our bodies. clothing that viii give
~sar 4 warmth and that is a honest equivalent for III money. If w.
M knew new t these Qualities and insisted upon having them in the fabrics we
We ought to be taught how to ga. FOO that is nourish,ns and the
I'm n ,r u Individual needs how to prepare 1t properly, how to expend
We ought to be taught how to furnish q home artisuoaly, comfortably,
We ought to be taught how to earn our living, not n a hsphagard wav
10 b. accepting whatever chance may thrust upon US, but In the way we
Earnest educators are endeavoring to bring about this sort of educs.
zion Vi they are having hard work to make their efforts felt. The
current is all the other way, largely because OF inertia O. the part of the
public, In some cases because of Indifference, and else because othe
methods re in force, and what Ia" is good enough for
But those who have suffered from this sort of education thoss
h see that their children are not getting the education that will be
actually useful should sweep conventions and prejudces aside and make
she effort to give them what life calls for.
This desn not meal that the fine arts and the beautiful things If the
world are not necessary. They all have their place. But bread and
butter is more essential than cakes and whipped cream. The fundamentals
should ONE frst-ths things that help to the making of a useful and
wel-ived life. The frlls cal be added later. But now, many Of use have
3 towering superstructure with very little foundation. And when we 90
out of the sheltered classroom, and the winds of adversely strike lis, the
suDerstructuret topples owe sd We have nothing left.
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