Such a little wife and mother is a blessing to
her home and consequently to the State. If she has servants they are good ones,
because she is a capable mistress. If she has not, she has learned to work so neatly
and to so economize in time and strength that she scarcely misses them.
If the teaching of domestic science in our public schools produces such women —
and it surely must — I think you will agree with me that the State and the nation
reap the benefit.
The following statements have been taken from the printed report
of the supervisor of cookery to the board of education, June 6, 1898:
Applications for the establishment of cooking classes have been made by the
principals of (13 additional) public schools.
This is very gratifying when it is remembered that the number of applications
made this year exceeds the entire number entered from the year 1887, when cookery
was introduced, to the present year. These applications were obtained through the
personal visits of the supervisor and were the voluntary acts of the principals.
While this method of introducing the work consumed much time, it at least had the
advantage of leaving no room for complaints, nor have any complaints been made;
on the contrary, great praise and appreciation have been received from all. The
supervisor earnestly recommends that the work be extended as rapidly as possible.
The cooking in the evening schools has been highly satisfactory, and it is greatly
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to be hoped that it mar he introduced into evening schools for women during the
coming rear. The young girls and women who attend these schools are certainly
ambitious for knowledge when they are willing to study two hours after a hard
day's work. Great pride is taken in educating them for typewriters, stenographers,
and bookkeepers, thus crowding the market with cheap labor. Would it not be
better for the State if these women were taught just enough bookkeeping to enable
them to keep the household accounts accurately and neatly, to understand taxation,
to lease a house and know their legal responsibility as tenants, as they do in France?
How many members of the class iu chemistry in the Evening High School for
Women have taken up that branch in order to better fit themselves to be home-
keepers f Do they realize that there is no science so intimately connected with the
very life of man as chemistry? How many would read with interest and profit the
bulletins on the Chemistry and Economy of Food, furnished free by the Govern-
ment? Probably not one. If, then, the study of cookery tends to lit our girls for
their true station in life, and it is held by all who have made domestic economy their
study that it does, should it not form a part of every girls education?
EQUIPMENT OF KITCHENS.
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Such a little wife and mother is a blessing to
her home and consequently to the State. If she has servants they are good ones,
because she is a capable mistress. If she has not, she has learned to work so neatly
and to so economize in time and strength that she scarcely misses them.
If the teaching of domestic science in our public schools produces such women —
and it surely must — I think you will agree with me that the State and the nation
reap the benefit.
The following statements have been taken from the printed report
of the supervisor of cookery to the board of education, June 6, 1898:
Applications for the establishment of cooking classes have been made by the
principals of (13 additional) public schools.
This is very gratifying when it is remembered that the number of applications
made this year exceeds the entire number entered from the year 1887, when cookery
was introduced, to the present year. These applications were obtained through the
personal visits of the supervisor and were the voluntary acts of the principals.
While this method of introducing the work consumed much time, it at least had the
advantage of leaving no room for complaints, nor have any complaints been made;
on the contrary, great praise and appreciation have been received from all. The
supervisor earnestly recommends that the work be extended as rapidly as possible.
The cooking in the evening schools has been highly satisfactory, and it is greatly
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to be hoped that it mar he introduced into evening schools for women during the
coming rear. The young girls and women who attend these schools are certainly
ambitious for knowledge when they are willing to study two hours after a hard
day's work. Great pride is taken in educating them for typewriters, stenographers,
and bookkeepers, thus crowding the market with cheap labor. Would it not be
better for the State if these women were taught just enough bookkeeping to enable
them to keep the household accounts accurately and neatly, to understand taxation,
to lease a house and know their legal responsibility as tenants, as they do in France?
How many members of the class iu chemistry in the Evening High School for
Women have taken up that branch in order to better fit themselves to be home-
keepers f Do they realize that there is no science so intimately connected with the
very life of man as chemistry? How many would read with interest and profit the
bulletins on the Chemistry and Economy of Food, furnished free by the Govern-
ment? Probably not one. If, then, the study of cookery tends to lit our girls for
their true station in life, and it is held by all who have made domestic economy their
study that it does, should it not form a part of every girls education?
EQUIPMENT OF KITCHENS.