Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11
HOME ECONOMICS IN
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Certain State Are Now Making
it Obligatory
Res Ime of the Work Taught-Stout
School at Menominee, Wis,
NOBEL

Home Economics in the public
schools has passed the experim entail
stage.
Communities that are progressive
nave incorporated it as part of the
regular school curriculum.
Certain states are making it
obligatory, Indiana and Iowa among
them. 1t IS interesting to note the
schools that claim precedence in hav-
ing inaugurated this work.
The pioneers in Agricultural work
are those of the agricultural college
of Iowa, opened at Ames in 1869 /;
and those of Kansas and Illinois.
Ames admitted women, and their
first class work was established in
1872; the first cooking class in 1877.
The first work at Manhattan,
Kansas, in cooking and sewing, was
an 1873.
This work as planned and con-
tinued, was followed by lectures and
all work was planned to aid the
farm housewife in her practical pro-
bIems. In 1877 their cooking de-
partment was started and was re-
gularly established In 1882.
The Department of Domestic
Science and Domestic Art was started
IN Illinois IN 1871, at the State Uni
versity. Here home economics was
all placed on a scientific basis and
took higher rank as an important
branch of work
Now, to quote Miss Cora Winchell
of Teachers College (Columbia,)
1.-The one time cooking teacher"
is a parsonage of the past. In the
fore ranks of education today stands
her successor-the broad minded
teacher of household arts, inspired
by sympathy and stimulated to
effective service through an apprecia-
tion of her opportunities in a con-
stantiy widening field. The woman
who enters this field of service must
possess courage, initiative. faith and
the spirit of experimentation and
adventure She must know that her
success will depend upon her ability
to realize the needs of those whom
she serves, and given this, upon the
power to meet those needs with
sanity and sympathetic wisdom. :"
Everywhere the movement is being
aided by many and diverse agencies.
The Camp Fire Girls Movement has
cast romantic glow over many of
the simple home tasks, through
hOnOrs, rhyme and song.
The canning clubs, first established
by far-seeing southern enthusiasts.
have dignifed certain forms of work
and given it money value.
One teacher who has been instruct
Sng the children in the district of
settlement house on the upper east
side in New York city tells of her
work. She said, 1.-THE boys think
they are being taught to cook but
we think we are teaching them to be
clean" This is an Italian district,
the girls are being taught hygienic,
modern methods Of cooking, sewing,
working and living. What helps and
blesses one of them helps and blesses
all of them, even to the outermost
OutpOsts of their family connections.
For a recent exhibition the boys made
$50 doughnuts and made and served
Taffies and coffee for so people.
The girls made and served so cup
cakes. 2 pounds of fudge and q
pounds of butterscotch, and made and
served z quarts of peach and apricot
marmalade. After all expenses had
been deducted, they had cleared
SAIL.
Gould there be better lessons
taught than these practical lessons in
seeking and serving clean hygienic,
pure foods, that these children may
grow into clean, honest healthy
citizens? All this is a part of the
work in Home Economics.
Few Wisconsin people. (few COM
paratively speaking) realize the work
that is being done at our own Stout
Institute in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
OHIy lhOSc VIII heaFS SOiO ~ PNA
sonal contact with DIR. l.. ID. Harvey,
the president of this really great
school, understand to any degree what
his far sighted plans and hopes have
meant in the progress of this move
ment. From Japan and France,
Australia and Russia educators come
TO visit this school, to get his methods
and points of view. A pioneer in
this work, he is also a leader and
an inspiration to all those who see in
this practical education for boys and