Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-28


her duty in relation to outside things that
| influence her home. but at the same time
/ she realizes that size must make her own
spect to the things that are there located.
1t may be her duty to lead a crusade for
clean streets. but this does not absolve
her from an obligation to keep a clean
kitchen.
| She believes that bad homes and uncom-
Portable homes result in bad and uncom-
| Portable lives. and that even the woman
of the best intentions may fail through
lack of knowledge to do for her home and
her family what she most desires to do
| Therefore. the modern woman insists that
the basis of good housekeeping is edu-
cation in the science of housekeeping
| With the entrance Of woman into other
| professions generation ago there came
a temporary neglect of matters domestic
SO that there was ground for the COM
PANT that the woman OF higher educa
t!on was not competent homemaker
Now. the pendulum is swinging back and
the supreme Importance of the work of
women in the home is becoming so well
recognized that most of the higher insti-
| tut1ons of learning to which women are
admitted. are supplying courses of study
| in home-making. These courses of study
are put little less complete and elaborate
| IMAM are the courses preparing for medi-
| cine. law and the other learned profess
SONS: The time is past when it is con-
ceded that any woman can manage
| rome without special preparation. The
changing conditions of modern life have
pfousht so many complex problems into
the nome that woman cannot hope to
solve them without knowledge Of many
| arts and sciences.
-,
The modern home is equipped with
more or less intricate plumbing system
The woman in
Must Understand charge must un-
About Plumbing. t thiar 40 So . m e
| rangement i'm order to take proper pre-
cautions to avoid the pipes becoming
clogged up. involving needless plumbing
bills and insantary conditions. Some
times this requires knowledge of chem
'stry also, a s a careful housekeeper re-
Gently found to her cost She attended
lecture upon sanitation and cleanliness in
which the use of I've in drains and sinks
was advocate She instructed her cook
| to put I've in her kitchen drain each day.
Presently the drain was clogged up and
a plumber had to be called. He found
that the toO-free use of I've had caused
hdiu soap 10 10TH INSIDE the pipes, De-
| cause the cook. being rather a careless
dlshwasher. had thrown a considerable
amount of grease into the drain. This
| united with the I've and formed a soap as
a slight knowledge of chemistry would
have suggested.
| A few years ago the liberality of
George Stout of Menominie, Wis. made
possible the establishment of a school for
homemakers which has become recOS-
nized as model of its kind not only in
lie ht,f OH r. Of
training school for domestic science
teachers, because it was shown that
many young women desired to take a
technical course in domestic science who
had no desire to teach, and, therefore,
were unwilling to take pedagogical work
This school. which was opened in 1897,
took for it's basic considerations the eco
nomic, scientific, artistic and ethical con-
ditiOns which must be combined in the
making of home. 1t is planned upon
the principle that the family is a bust
ness organization. a social unit and an
ethical force. The woman is the admin
istrative officer of the business organiza-
ton of the family. 1t is assumed that
the man provides the funds for carrying
on the business of the home and that the
woman disburses them properly.
The scope of the work i'm this unique
but practical school is broad. but is SUBJ
divided into many
Scope of Work courses. The
in School Broad. the house i,se,f
and includes sanitation decoration, fur
nishing and house management This
last is especially important, and, in order
that the studenets may learn it prop
erly, cottages are provided in which they
may keep house for a year.
The course in business management in
this school of home-makinP includes a
thorough study in comparative values
which is intended to fit the young woman
to secure adequate results from the
money expended. 1t also gives instruc-
ton in the proper proportionng of the
family income among the different lines
of home expenditures. the systematiZing
and keeping of family accounts, the Or
ganization and division of household Ia
Dor, the question of domestic service and
many other topics. These subjects first
are considered in theoretical discussion
and afterward put into practical applica-
ton in the supervision and care of the
homemakers cottages. which is a part
of the second years work in this school
Many other Institutions make a special
ty of instruction in hOme-making. Las
year Columbia University in New York.
opened magnificently equipped new
building for this purpose. 1t also prints
numerous bulletins which are available to
home students. One of its most practical
publications is monograph entitled THE
Feeding of the Children in a Family with
an Income of $500 a Year" Cornell Uni
versity also has published a number of
bulletins upon the general subject of
child feeding, and both of these institu
tons provide excellent courses upon many
home-ma king subjects. Each year hum
dreds of housewives go to the University
of Wisconsin to attend lectures upon spe-
cial subjects. They learn how to test
milk and how to preserve it in it's purity
for the use OF their children. They learn
food values and dietics. which subjects
have assumed real scientific value in uni
versity cUrrculums.
The study of food selection and prepara-
ton presents a problem which, when
properly sOlv-
Food Selection ed. means per-
feet nutrition
11CSoAtS 1AoD1oA. 10 the human
family, which is the great end In view.
IT includes suiting the food to the indi-