The San Francisco call and post. [volume] (San Francisco, Calif.) 1913-1929, 1913-12-31

Next week will mark an epoch for
San Francisco housewives. A free
course in domestic science will be
given in Hale's Pompeiian court for
the benefit of sll who are interested
In better and modern up to date
housekeeping methods.
1t Is planned to afford pleasure as
well as profit. Kate B. Vaughn, the
lecturer, who his been obtained to con-
duct this course. is a southerner with
all of the southern woman's predilec-
lions and prejudices toward the home
life and old fashioned genuine hospi-
tality, and she has a way of max
ing those who attend her lecture
demonstrations feel that they are
her guests. and entertains them In
a happy and pleasant manner. This
makes for the delightful social spirit
which is characteristic of Mrs.
Vaughn's schools.
This school of methods for house
keepers and cooks of all types and
varieties will be high class in every
particular. Mrs. Vaughn is an edu-
Gator of note and has spoken before
domestic science classes and women's
clubs in many OF the leading cities
of the United States.
She takes a broad and compre-
hensive view of the life work she
has chosen. She feels that the home
maker yields an unbounded infiu-
ence on all the work of the world.
She believes a woman whose duty
Is to make and care for a home can
not possibly have too much wisdom
and knowledge for the performance
of such a stupendous task. Perhaps
the best work Mrs. Vaughn does Is
to bring housekeepers to a realize
ton of the greatness and Importance
of their job. She Is 80 deeply In
earnest about this that she never
fails to arouse the same degree OF
enthusiasm In her hearers.
INTERESTED IN GIRLS
Mrs. Vaughn, with two daughters.
one of whom is almost grown and is
being thoroughly trained in domestic
science principles, and the other,
wee winsome lassie, still referred to
as my baby" Is interested in girls
everywhere and carries with her an
optimistic message to combat the
opinion that girls can't cook like
mother did"
And Mrs. Vaughn has good and
substantial reasons with which to
back UP her statement. In her
lecture tours which have taken her
into most of the large cities in her
own sunny south land. into many of
the important educational centers of
the east and this season into many
of the large cities of the Pacific
coast, she has come into close per-
sonal contact with the American girl
I'm her home life, her business life
and particularly in her school life
and has studied her very carefully
AS a result Mrs. Vaughn insists
that the girl of today is far more
selfreliant and far better fitted to
assume the duties of wife and
mother than those of a few genera
tions ago She says that, along with
the education which makes for true
culture. girls are giving attention to
fewer fancy fri1ls and more of the
Important fundamentals which make
for real usefulness, particularly along
home making lines.
Mrs. Vaughn says the introduction
OF domestic arts into public schools
and college curriculums has done
much to bring about this commend
able state of affairs. and that girls
know much more OF the science of
housekeeping. more about sanitation
and hygiene. and more about foods
and their digestible values. than their
mothers knew or their grandmothers
ever dreamed