The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1916-11-02
PRIZE ESSAY
BY Mamie Reynolds
Read At the Jackson County Asrioul.
tural and School Fair

tural ana Scnooi Feir
Domestic Science should be taught
in all the schools OF America In or
der TO teach the girls and house.
wives how 10 better care for their
homes.
Why shouldn't we girls learn TO
keep house just as well as the boys
learn farmingf The girls should
study Domestic Science and learn
how TO keep house in the correct
way and also how 10 cook their food
in q sanitary way.
They should keep every room In
the building well ventilated and
supplied with fresh air day and
night, have screen doors and win
dows especially 10 your dining-room
and kitchen and fight against the
fly; for the fly carries germs OF
disease.
We should keep everything in the
kitchen in q sanitary condition-the
stove, table cloths. dishes, dish
cloths and everything. even the floor
must be kept strictly clean. When
scrubbing there should always be
plenty Of soap and boiling water
used in order 10 kill all the microbes.
A microbe Is a tiny germ that can
not be seen with the naked eye
and causes more deaths than any
other thing. There were over
&,ti6 deaths in Kentucky last year
from tuberculosis. fevers and other
preventable diseases caused by these
germs.
We should not dust our furniture
with q feather buster but use a
damp cloth or oiled mop so as TO
catch all the dust.
Our bed room must be kept sup
piled with fresh air and the bed
clothes summed every day and be
kept clean and nice.
II isn't all in keeping the rooms
clean but the yards must be kept
strictly clean and not q bit OF dish
water thrown about the back door.
Instead OF a dirty back yard IL
ought 10 be a large green lawn with
plenty OF shade trees and flowers
and look as beautiful as the front
yard.
II the housewives OF America
knew Domestic Science and applied
IL in their homes the average life OF
the human race would be lengthen-
ed, homes would be brighter, drug
stores would go begging and every
body live happier.
Why should not the American
women have Domestic Science in
their homes? Why should not the
American know the true meaning
Of cleanliness and OF pure whole
some foods and the many many
things connected with Domestic
Science. Our government and en-
tire population is crazy to-day over
scientific agriculture. Thousands
Of dollars are being spent along
this line and IL is money well spent
but where is the difference in
scientific farming and scientific cook
ing, housework and many things
women must do. There is no diff
erence, one is as important as the
other. Why grow large crops OF
grains and foods unless the house.
wives know how 10 cook and pre-
pare them for human food.
Many a child's life has been
shortened by its mother not know
ing how 10 prepare its food. how
to properly clothe il and give il
plenty OF pure fresh air.
Another important thing: the
beauty Of the house in order and
system is the greatest possible pre-
ventive Of disorder and irritation.
Have a place and a reason for the
place for everything In the house.
A little dirt more or less in your
house and your life is no poorer.
But II you let the vision fail; IL the
days 90 by and you read no inspiring
books, no thrilling poem, think no
lofty thoughts, have no stranger
within your gates; you are eter-
nally the looser. Many a woman
keeps her floors and coverings spot
less; has everything shiny: allows
no dirt in her house and still bars
her windows with the first breath
of autumn and leaves them closed
until spring. A clean floor for her
feet and filthy air for her lungs
and still she would call herself
sanitary.
Now again as 10 the food. DR.. Har-
vey Wiley, the pure food advocate
says, More infants die in America
from being fed improper food than
from all diseases known 10 the med
ical profession and that more peo-
pie OF all classes die for the want OF
pure air, pure food and cleanliness
than from all diseases known IN tho