New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-04
nv Mabel Hyde kittredge.

,,.h the other great professions u ''''
We used TO think that woman
,.couse she was a woman. could be
"a % make a home. and the natural
.,o, the women of the world were
.otbers of the world used 20 be con-
- oroof that they would know how
- their pa5ies, or If i'm doubt they
-. =, ask the grandmother. We are
n- ~. AZ last. and each young mother
's Guides rer profession leaves a help
'D ,ewfdered Grandmother in the back
- fss Samuel Merwin says the ac-
Mated experience Of tie ages in child
' -, is that grandmothers' and yet
''''i = authority no longer. for since her
5,y sclerce has stepped in.
HOUSEKEEPING A SCIENCE.
-. vholc housekeeping question is de-
~ -, ynon scientific MANAGEMENT.
,e.enev. skilled labor and effective tools
-. manufacturers discovered long ago
-. business was so dependent. We
..,sn took a long time learning our
,..o,-,n the great forward march OF
,oss We Jagged behind-but at last We
-. a live scientific profession, not dull
-.ss.b,ld chores 10 awake TO each morn
T,,r.s.ors as well as we women, failed
=. "a. the value Of this training. For
- m room was found in the educa-
,.,.l scheme to provide for this homely
..aav and when a few enthusiasts
,r.bsd a few cooking lessons into the
-, few months Of our school courses
.,rs seid IL was foolish: nearly all
,g,sss Il was enough. for. surely every
mia could learn housekeeping al home
"a vet these same educators read that
. nor cent Of our school children were
entering from malnutrition, not because
4 cruelty. or even poverty. but because
n ignorance regarding the buying ana
he preparation Of proper food.
COME TEACH US HOW TO LIVE"
Tor wears the chemist and the bac-
,.-iolosist have known that knowledge
q, tho value Of air and water. cleanliness
and sunshine. could prevent disease by
inducing conditions under which germs
could not live. and yet the poor home
maker nursed her sick children again
and again back 10 health, or saw those
Children sicken and die because she
hadn't this science Of living.
Now. al least every one wants tins
knowledge, and each year a great army
Of trained women answer TO the call 10
come and teach US how 10 live. The
iris from cur high schools have no
longer to choose between the shop the
factory and the position Of schoolmarm.
They can enter our domestic science
schools at the end Of their high school
year. learn the professions q household
science or household arts. and then go
forth holding in their hands a gift as
great as that Of the physician-greater. 1t
s5ema sometimes. for these domestic
science teachers prevent. instead OF cur
ing disease. Where each housewife Stun
bed along. blazing out her own trail. now
these scientists have opened the way
and placed guide posts al each cross
rad
What great new interest has opened
up to woman in this new profession. she
10 longer has 20 leave the home things
she naturally wants to do and take up
an uncongenial business. but she can sup
port herself by simply turning the nat
rfal home duties into a science.
Chemistry used % mean something far
away connected in our minds with unin-
ielgible words and a laboratory odor.
Now W hear the domestic science teacher
explaining to the tiny cook OF ten, who IS
broken hearted because her biscuits
Taste queer" that Il isn't just bad luck
that made her biscuits wrong, but that
sae added 10 the sour milk more soda
than the acid present could unite WITH
and 50 the excess Of soda was left in the
biscuit That little girl will never forget
mat chemistry lesson.
BEGIN EARLY TO SPECIALIZE.
What does Il involve when a girl de-
ermines 10 take a course in domestic
sslence and so make herself self-support-
ING! First, the time for that decision 10
oeiore entering the last two years Of high
school A pupil can begin to specialize
Win view TO this science while still IN
NnocA This will be the time for a girl
" decide, II possible. whether household
suehce or household art seems TO her
"V'e interesting. The former deals with
composition. preparation and use Of food.
Nhie the art study takes up textiles,
VV'ning and shelter. The next step is TO
'elu 'or catalogues. The training schools
e many-Prstt Institute. Brooklyn;
fathers College, New York; Drexel,
--iaoeiphia; Mechanics Institute, Roch-
Vs'er-are a few Of the largest in the
-aSI While In the West all the univer-
Nes nave excellent courses in both
~Vusenoid science and household art. The
rance requirements for some of these
'0snee schools are simply the four years
~.lling in high school or It's equivalent,
tons.
e matter Of cost is the next consid-
~''Oh 10 be taken up. The tuition aver
ABOUT 500 a year. but a pupil can
1aNy work her way through and Sc
1'e 'ne actual money expense. Also,
-, quite usual for a girl TO assist with
"o1se~ork in her boarding place. and