Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25

nurses course is included among the vocational
courses. Dressmaking lace making. embroidery.
hat making and weaving among the other
branches included in vocational school
optional in the homemaker's course.
Much the Filipino needed education along
all lines. in nothing was his need SO great
in the first principles of sanitation When the
American came the natives, in the larger
cities, knew nothing of sanitation, household
otherwise. 1t had not been taught the Filipino
by his Spanish rulers, who practfsed the theory
that the more the native knew the more discon-
tented and hence the more difficult to manage he
would become Also the Spanish ruler himself
knew practically nothing of the higher domestic
arts. and his idea that his home was his castle
what on within of no concern the
outsider he handed down to the Filipino.
The Filipino. however, far reader to
simulate the benefcent changes offered by the
both at home and abroad, lessened the danger of
plaques, which since time mmemorial had
moved down the native population like grain
before scythe
The Filipino is proud in his way and has
a strong notion of what his personal rights.
Anything akin to tyrannical enforcement of iron
clad rules would have defeated the whole scheme.
Hosts of domestic science teachers, equipped with
the best training have gone to the Philippines
this last decade with high hopes and unbounded
enthusiasm for the work before them. only to
turn presently with blank failure the record of
their Philippine sojourn
Those who have succeeded the of
these has been tremendous-have done through
intimate sympathetic understanding of the Fill
Pine. the code and traditions which give him his
peculiar point of view and his essentially
peculiar home life.
Nothing in all the of study offered by
the school of household Industries has seemed
to interest the young women greatly the
study of sanitation, hygiene and the care of in
fants. While the Filipino himself may have def
mite reasons of his for desiring cleaner and
more wholesome living conditions, the younger
women have learned that to lack of knowledge
may be charged the terrific death rate among
infants. Out of each three roundeyed smiling
babies born one dies before it has lived year.
a victim of ignorance and unsanitary environ
ment- Innate, universal mother love was quick
to value and acquire knowledge of anything
which results in saving the babies
But nothing in all the school is variously
interesting as the changes wrought by the study
of cooking. In times past the Filipino had the
scantiest variety of food, which prepared in
the simplest fashion, meat being heavy item
of his menu The greatest delicacy of the Igor
rete was, and in portions Of the islands
continues to be. pot roast la Fido- Many of
them still eat dog stew, but the majority are be-
ginning to learn that there are numerous other
foods vastly palatable and satisfying
Even the Igorrote maiden knows that il she is
to get and keep a husband she must know mod
methods of conducting the modern home.
which the men have acquired a liking for
So ftehappens that in the cooking classes
the youngest and prettiest and brightest of these
future wives and mothers And even in their