The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-27

I've in drains and sinks was advocated.
She instructed her cook to put I've in
her kitchen drain each day. Pres
emily the drain was clogged up and
a plumber had to be called. He found
that the too-free use of I've had caused
hard soap to form inside the pipes
because the cook, being rather a care
less dlshWasher, had thrown a consid-
cradle amount of grease into the
drain. This united with the lye and
formed a SOAP, as a slight knowledge
of chemistry would have suggested.
A few years ago the liberality of
Hon. George Stout of Menominie,
Wis, made possible the establishment
of a school for home-makers which
has become recognized as a model of
its kind, not only in this country but
abroad. 1t grew out of a training
school for domestic science teachers,
because it was shown hat many
young women desired to take a tech
nical course in domestic science who
had no desire to teach and, therefore,
were unwilling to take pedagogical
work. This school, which was opened
in 1907, took for it's basic considera-
lions the economic, scientific, artistic
and ethical conditions which must be
combined in the making of a home.
1t is planned upon the principle that
the family is a business organization.
a social unit and an ethical force. The
woman is the administrative officer of
the business organization of the fam
lily. 1t is assumed that the man pro-
vides the funds for carrying on the
business of the home and that the
woman disburses them properly. The
scope of the work in this unique but
practical school is broad but is sub
ivide into many courses. The first
deals with the house itself and in
cludes sanitation, decoration, furnish
ing and house management. This last
is especially important and, in order
that the students 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-making in
cludes a thorough study in compare
tive values which is intended to fit
the young woman to secure adequate
results from the mone expended. 1t
also gives instruction in the proper
proportioning of the family income
among the different lines of nome ex-
penditures, h systematizing and
keeping of family accounts, the or
ganization and division of household
labor, the question of domestic ser
vice n many other topics. These
subjects first are considered in theo-
retical discussion INC afterWard put
into practical application in the super
vision and care Of the home-makers'
cottages, which is a part of the sec
ond years work in this school.
Many other institutions make a
speciality of instruction in homemade
ing. Last year Columbia university,
in New York;, opened a magnificently
equipped new building for this pur-
pose. 1t also prints numerous bulle-
tins which are available to home stu
dents. One of its most practical pub
LEGATIONS is a monograph entitled The
Feeding of the Children in a Family
With al Income of $500 a Year" Cor
nell university also has published a
number Of bulletins upon the general
subject of child feeding and both of
these institutions provide excellent
courses upo many home-making
subjects. Fac year., hundreds of
housewives go to the University of
Wisconsin to attend lectures upon
special subjects. They learn how to
test milk and how to preserve it in
its purity for the use TO their chill
dren. They learn food values and
dietics, which subjects have assumed
real scientific value in university cur
riculums.
The study of food selection and
preparation presents a problem which,
when properly solved, means perfect
nutrition to the human family, which
ID the great end in view. 1t includes
suiting the food to the individual need
and consideration of the effect of diff
ferent foods upon the human body.
For instance, it recently has been
demonstration that one of the many
good qualities of cornbread is to pre-
serve the teeth. Among the appli-
cants from the southern states seek
ing to join the United States navy, it
is stated that none is rejected on &C
count of poor teeth. The reason of
this superior dental condition in the
men of that region is the fact that all
their lives they have been accustomed
to eat a large proportion of corn
bread.
The knowledge gained by a course
of food study and preparation in
cludes chemistry, biology, physiology
and dietics, each Of which is treated
as a separate science The object of
the woman in charge of the modern
home is not to give her family the
food which simply will satisfy their
hunger, but rather that which will
satisfy all of the needs of their bodies.
Nutrition or mal-nutrition in child
hood may be felt throughout adult
life.
The woman in the home also has
much, if not all, to do with the selec-
ton and purchase of the family ward
robe, and the care of it afterWard. A
comprehensive knowledge of the quail
tiles of all fabrics is needed to secure
the best results. 1t is necessary that
she be able to recognize the differ
ence between wool and cotton and to
know the advantages of each used