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graces that is largely the trouble today. Women
are the very foundation of our social structure;
she is the heart and soul Of the home and the
family and the happy family is the unit that
makes up the perfect State and Nation. We
are drifting away from the ideal home life SO
characteristic Of the Victorian era. There are
very few Victorians in these days fear there
are more dappers than Victorians.
"Our public schools IN Washington and IN
the several States have, during the last half
Of my lifetime, established for girls elaborate
courses in domestic science. The equipments
for teaching cooking, the needle arts and home
making are, perhaps, more Of an expense to
the taxpayers than any other department for
girls in our public schools. But what Of the
expense If the girls taking these courses use
them in after life. 1t is claimed authoritatively
that very small percentage Of the girls tax
ing these courses ever become home makers.
If they get married they live in room or
small apartment and buy their meals at reStau-
rants and cafeterias, send their washing to the
laundry and prefer salaried position In an
Office a store or q factory to keeping house or
being a home maker and rearing healthy chill
dren. I have always favored the teaching Of
domestic science in our schools, but 1t seems to
me that our boards Of education would do wen
to make an investigation and let us know what
percentage Of girls who have majored IN do
mestic science are actually using the knowl-
edge they gained. Observation indicates that
after girls have been taught domestic science
for from one to four years they accept an Office
or store position, never become home makers
and therefore, never use their knowledge OF
domestic science. II our educational authori-
ties should go carefully over their lists Of stu
dents in domestic science during the past 20
years, what percentage Of these girls and wom-
en- would be located as home makers? be-
neve that such q research would develop an
astonishing revelation to the school faculties
and the public. Perhaps If only one girl out
Of each ten 20 educated Is making use of it, the
continued teaching Of domestic science would
be worth while. But If 1t is much less than 10
per cent, the faculties and the board Of educa-
ton might decide that the domestic science
branches Of our schools be dismantled IN the
interests Of saving the students time to devote
to something they can use, and relieving the
taxpayers of a very expensive department Of
the public schools"
"Are you q believer In woman Suffrage?"
Mrs. Henderson was asked
IT certainly am, and woman suffrage Is no
longer a controversial subject; everybody seems
to believe in it. The nineteenth amendment
was adopted in the same manner as the eight
eenth, but no one has yet set up the cry that
the former is unconstitutional as every once
IN q while they do regarding the eighteenth
amendment"
~You have no wine cellar, Mrs. Henderson,"
"There was a time when we had q wine cellar
stored with all kinds Of liquors, but person.
ally did not think much Of it. When the
time came so could do so had every drop
Of intoxicating liquor in our cellar taken out
and poured into the sewer; no matter what it
cost, wanted to put any liquor I might be re-
sponsible for out Of existence. Some people
seem to be impatient because our prohibition
has not in 10 or IL years fully banished liquor
from our fair land Alcoholic beverages have
4een the curse of the human race for centuries