Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-01-13
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
FOR HONE CULTURE
Quiet. WeII-Managed House Is
Essential to Happiness.
We Must Make Public instruction so
That Ii Reaches the Crown
ups at Home.

~ lHS DeS inning OF announcer year IL
is natural impulse to make good
resolutions. We have turned another
page; it is white and unsullied and
awaits our record. Let US get rid
of our false estimates, set up all the
higher ideals-a quite home; culti-
vate vines of our own planting;
few books full of the inspiration of
a genius; a few friends worthy of
being loved and able to love us in
turn; hundred innocent pleasures
that bring no pain or remorse; a
devotion to the right that will never
swerve; a simple religion, empty of
all bigotry, full of trust and hope
and love; and to such a philosophy
this world will give up all the empty
JOY it has
First among our high ideals we
place the quiet home; the we'll
managed home, which produces the
best results in the way of useful
citizenship and personal happiness.
Martha Bensley Bruere and Robert
w. Bruere have written together the
book, Increasing Home Efficiency"
They write we'll and Understandings
of the many problems involved in the
management of the modern home.
They say, "A knowledge of house
keeping is not matter of sex, but of
science; and, since it is something
that we all ought to know, men and
women alike, isn't the public school,
which we are all forced to attend,
the proper place to learn it? We
a1e all forced to learn the measure
ments of land and the principles of
surveying, though we may never own
a foot of our own land. We must
study longitude and time, though we
are content to set our own watches by
the factory whistle, not by the stars.
Why should we not all learn the
principles of house keeping on which
we depend hundred and sixty-five
days in the year? Ought they not to
be part of our race knowledge?
And, in addition to this general
knowledge for US all, should we not
insist on a special trade training for
all who arc actually engaged in house
keeping?"
If we are able to work out a
system of public education that
reaches all the children, surely we
can stretch it to include that fraction
of the grown ups who are house
keepers. For we do need the two
kinds of education-the general princi-
Piles for US all and the special instruc-
tion for those who practice the pro-
fession.
q think there is danger of carry
ing this rage for domestic science
too far, > cried the dean of woman's
college. 1--WE let it get in the way
Of culture. "
On the contrary The whole de-
velOpment of domestic science is to
the one end that housekeeping may
get uut of the way of culture. We
study it in order to prevent the work
of housekeeping, which however we
may hate to admit it, is the basis of
our civilization, from blightihg the
things that are the flower of our
civilization.
We pref e attitude of Virginia's
State SupeI 2ndent of Public In
struction, Joseph D. Eggleston.
"'No man believes in cultural educa-
tion more than do,'' he writes, ''or
believes more in the vital necessity
of continuing this cultural education
in order to preserve that fine spirit
and vision without which we perish.
But | take no stock whatever in that
false culture which thinks it degrad-
ing to work with the hands. 1t. is
the doing of everyday work in shift
less manner that is degrading and
destructive of culture.
IF this instruction in house-keep-
ing said Miss Snow, head of
domestic science in the Chicago public
sch ools, were nothing but teaching
the children to cook and clean and
wa sh and do all the other things that
ar done IN the home, / shouldn't be
cry much interested in it. As l see
it, domestic science is training in
Citations. 1t takes up government,
an d politics, and business, and
health, and capital, and labor and the
social setting of them all. 1t is
really training the consumer to live
And to live is to consumed
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