Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-01-25

"A0 {" pi0CS where the young C0lIu
can grow in peaceful gu ct.
Men fought and women toiled for
the homes preservation. Now ma
ehinery has swept it all away and it
will never return. The very essence
OF that early life was the, making of
things.
Preparation for winter while vet
summer Furnishing the bridal chest
years before marriage.
No More Pioneer Homes
There are no more pioneer ana CO.
lonial homes or communities on this
continent. Railroads. steamboats, and
electric power have made this rural
life thing of the past.
The slum home, with it's filth. and
Tack OF sunlight, originated in this
century. The wives and mothers of
these homes are wage earners. there
fore the children are the purchasers
In these homes. These girls have no
training in housekeeping, and the
spending OF the family income, so
there is little thought put on the food
and nutritive value of food for the
tamlly's welfare. Is it any wonder
that these girls grow to womanhood
shiftless, INDECENT spendthr fits. when
they marry and have their husbands
incomes to spend?
Inc following concepts are dying
rapidly in the present day homes:
l. No center of industry.
2. No more Notifications.
3. Sanctity has been taken from
the home.
4. The training of our children
is taken out of our homes at the
age of five
5. Old-time hospitality is dying
only visit and partake of meal when
invited, and great preparations are
made beforehand.
6. All privacy dying in the slums
apartment houses, and family board
ing houses.
z. Less ownership.
The parents duty is to prepare the
child for more efficient living. This
they fail to do, for they live in cramp-
ed quarters. Nothing for the chill
dren to do and a child needs to be
Kept busy to be happy and out of
mischief.
1. The child has right to be
well born.
2. A right to know the functions
OF his own organs.
8. A right to religious, education
al and vocational training. This
means to train the child to a means
OF earning his own living in the most
efficient way.
Home Should Be Simple
A home based on the right prin-
ciples should be simple. There will
be simplicity of living, honesty in the
expression of what is offered in the
home There will be no living be-
yond ones means, simple furnishings,
heaRhful foods, simple, art stic cloth
hfE all help to simplify life and give
the home makers more tine for the
family joys.
Cleanliness and orderliness should
be fixed ideals, for upon them the
health and comfort of the whole fam
lily depend. Mrs. Richards says:
Cleanliness in the handling of foods,
cleanliness in the care of clothing,
rooms, and furnishings lead to hap
r'ness and a more healthful family
life"
One of the most difficult problems
find in my work is to establish per-
fleet order and neatness. I am able
tn accomplish this only by constant
inspection of the household duties of
each member Of the class before dis
missal At present / have only one
untidy girl. When she bakes, the floor
about her is covered with -four. She
is wasteful. Always has an untidy
appearance. Thus far I have been
unable to make any impression on
her. She is always cheerful and good
natured, but her nome training is
going to be hard to change for l only
have her five hours a week.
knowledge of Foods
knowledge in relation to foods and
their nutritive values is the power
that will aid the young home makers
in supplying proper nourishment for
the home table and in training their
children to think carefully about the
choice Of foods eaten. Self-control in
selection Of food should be a part of
early training. Food, moreover, should
be eaten only at regular intervals in
order that the digestive organs may
have time to manufacture the neces-
sary secretions. Children should be
taught to drink plenty of pure water
and be made to realize that a suff1-
cient amount must be taken in order
that the blood stream may be diluted
and carry to the tissues the necessary
food in solution in that stream. Suf-
ficient water is an absolute necessity,
in order that the useless material of
the body may be carried away.
The object of all cooking is to
make the food stuffs more palatable
or more digestible. Bread, the staff
of life, requires a high degree Of heat
to kill plant life, to heat the starch
sufficiently to render it very soluble,
to expand the carbon di oxide and
drive off the alcohol, to stiffen the
gluten, and to make chemical changes
which shall give pleasant flavor to
the crust.
The milk supply in the home is as
important as the water supply. The
girls should be taught how to test
for formaldehyde, chalk, boracic acid,
for these are all adulterants of milk
and very harmful to body tissue. The
care of milk and the utensils in
which milk is kept, is essential to the