The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-02-29
DOMESTICSCIENCE.
Its Importance Emphasized in
Public Address Saturday
IDEAS OF AN EXPERT
Mrs. Baker of the Extension Diyis-
ion of the Agricultural School
Gives Talk

Yin
The practical value of educating
boys and girls along lines that will
enable them better to cope with ex-
listing conditions when they leave
school, was set forth in two addresses
delivered in the public school build
ing Saturday forenoon and evening by
Mrs. Baker of the extension division
OF the Agricultural School at St. An
thony Park. In the morning Mrs.
Baker spoke on the home, the prepar-
alton of food and balanced. rations,
emphasizing the Importance of having
the girls learn home economy in all
it's branches.
In the evening the seating capacity
of the high school assembly room was
taxed to accommodate those w h O
wished to hear Mrs. Baker. Her sub
ject was industrial Education. "
Mrs. Baker read from carefully pre-
pared manuscript a paper covering
the field exhaustively. Mrs. Baker
has pleasing appearance, is cultur-
ed lady thoroughly familiar with her
subject and held the attention of her
audience, in which there was good
sprinkling of the masculine gender,
throughout.
In opening her address Mrs. Baker
referred to the fact that Specialize
ton is the watchword now in all lines
of business, and that with it goes a
specialization of work, with the logi.
cal result of better product at a
cheaper cost price. Half a century
ego the converse was true. Then tha
village store contained little OF
everything. Now the different lines
of merchandise are divided between
dealers who specialize, each in his own
line.
The same is true of farming The
old-time farmer who cultivated his
acres on a hit-and-miss plan is nc
more. In his place has come the man
who farms with his brains; in
fact it takes more brains to run a
farm and run it right, in these TWEEN.
tieth century days, then it does to
successfully conduct mercantile bus
mess.
In the school of less than fifty
years ago the three ''R's" were taught
and that was considered sufficient tc
fit the boy and girl for practical life
Now something else is demanded
The hand as we'll as the brain must
be educated. Mental a nd manua
culture go hand in hand and neither
should jostle the other out of the road
to learning. The graduates of. oul
schools, averred Mrs. Baker, must fill
places in the modern home, the mod.
ern shop, on the modern ar M
Hence the necessity of fitting them
for their positions. "What will 1T
avail our boys and girls" exclaimed
Mrs. Baker, 'if they know all about
literature, science, language, mathe
matics, if they cannot successfully
manage their homes, their business
their professions? They must be
fully equipped to fill the positions
awaiting them.''
Proceeding, Mrs. Baker said: ''NC
scheme of education is a success un
less it touches and uplifts the people.
The speaker went on to emphasize
the Importance of home-making. She
would have the girl leave the public
schools perfectly equipped with al
education and a training that would
make of her a first class housewife
and mother, with the ability to pro
perly train, her children in the same
lines. She placed great emphasis up
on economy, sanitation and simplicity
as three of the things necessary t.
make the modern home what j
should be.
Following Mrs. Bakers address Mis-