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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
HANDBOOK
OF
DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND
HOUSEHOLD ARTS
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HANDBOOK OF
DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND
HOUSEHOLD ARTS
FOR USE IN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
A MANUAL FOE TE ACHE MS
WITH A PREFACE BY
MRS. ELLEN H. RICHARDS
OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
AND
WITH CHAPTERS CONTRIBUTED BY OTHER WELL
KNOWN SPECIALISTS
EDITED BY
V
LUCY LANGDON WILLIAMS WILSON, Ph.D.
OF THE PHILADELPHIA NORMAL SCHOOL
Wfto Pork
THE'^*MA€MILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd,
1900
All rights reserved
U
T'VVO COPIES RECH.iVED,
Library of Con;
Offku of th
Register of Co^pyrlghf«5
5:^839
Copyright, 1900,
By the MACMILLAN COMPANT.
SECOND COPV,
NortooDli i^resg
J. S. Gushing & Co. — Berwick £i Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
Till by experience taught the mind shall learn
That, not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom."
— John Milton.
PREFACE
According to a prevalent theory of education, the child
acquaints himself with the various objects of his environ-
ment in order to have a basis of choice in his after life as
well as to develope his observing faculties. The knowledge
which he consciously or unconsciously gains in his early
years remains indelible, as do the letters lightly cut in the
bark of a young sapling, which may be read even more
distinctly in the grown tree.
Owing to the rapid changes in environment, — economic,
industrial, mechanical, and social, — many a teacher finds
herself at a loss in trying to aid her pupils to find their
place in a world which is almost as new to her as to them.
Where everything is in a more or less plastic condition,
firm foothold is not possible, and the already overworked
teacher is not able to search out the truth from the multi-
tude of books, to understand the new processes, to keep up
with the daily inventions.
To the child's endless " Why ? " and " How ? " she must
turn a deaf ear, or she must " work up " the various subjects
from newspaper or magazine articles based on encyclopae-
dias, which are admirable epitomes of past and gone history,
but most misleading and insufficient as to growing science.
This little book is an endeavor on the part of the several
experienced teachers to put into a form helpful to others
that Avhich they themselves have gathered with much labor.
The topics relate to that routine of daily life which influ-
Vlll PREFACE
ences every child for good or ill throughout its career, and
which may be beneficial in proportion as it is understood
and controlled.
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Chap....l.l Copyright No.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
HANDBOOK
OF
DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND
HOUSEHOLD ARTS
•Tlw^Cv^ K'O
HANDBOOK OF
DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND
HOUSEHOLD ARTS
FOR USE IN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
A MANUAL FOE TE ACHE MS
WITH A PREFACE BY
MRS. ELLEN H. RICHARDS
OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
AND
WITH CHAPTERS CONTRIBUTED BY OTHER WELL
KNOWN SPECIALISTS
EDITED BY
V
LUCY LANGDON WILLIAMS WILSON, Ph.D.
OF THE PHILADELPHIA NORMAL SCHOOL
Wfto Pork
THE'^*MA€MILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd,
1900
All rights reserved
U
T'VVO COPIES RECH.iVED,
Library of Con;
Offku of th
Register of Co^pyrlghf«5
5:^839
Copyright, 1900,
By the MACMILLAN COMPANT.
SECOND COPV,
NortooDli i^resg
J. S. Gushing & Co. — Berwick £i Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
Till by experience taught the mind shall learn
That, not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom."
— John Milton.
PREFACE
According to a prevalent theory of education, the child
acquaints himself with the various objects of his environ-
ment in order to have a basis of choice in his after life as
well as to develope his observing faculties. The knowledge
which he consciously or unconsciously gains in his early
years remains indelible, as do the letters lightly cut in the
bark of a young sapling, which may be read even more
distinctly in the grown tree.
Owing to the rapid changes in environment, — economic,
industrial, mechanical, and social, — many a teacher finds
herself at a loss in trying to aid her pupils to find their
place in a world which is almost as new to her as to them.
Where everything is in a more or less plastic condition,
firm foothold is not possible, and the already overworked
teacher is not able to search out the truth from the multi-
tude of books, to understand the new processes, to keep up
with the daily inventions.
To the child's endless " Why ? " and " How ? " she must
turn a deaf ear, or she must " work up " the various subjects
from newspaper or magazine articles based on encyclopae-
dias, which are admirable epitomes of past and gone history,
but most misleading and insufficient as to growing science.
This little book is an endeavor on the part of the several
experienced teachers to put into a form helpful to others
that Avhich they themselves have gathered with much labor.
The topics relate to that routine of daily life which influ-
Vlll PREFACE
ences every child for good or ill throughout its career, and
which may be beneficial in proportion as it is understood
and controlled.