Show KITCHEN N NG A WORK WHICH HAS HELPED MAY MANY POOR AND RICH FAMILIES what kitchen garden training sieanh how it was started and by n great W work rk for her less lesi sisters la in a ilig biff city there is q so much to find fault with and so much to wish for in such a great big dirty city as ours oura that sometimes the good sweet modest facts connected with our charitable institutions are overlooked said a visitor to the wilson industrial du school and mission as she came away from there the other day the building at st marks place was turned nearly forty years ago from a factory into tw ibo pleasant school house which it now is this school which was the first institution of the kind in america ameria is not endowed and is maintained entirely by voluntary contribution mrs jonathan sturges is the first dh director ector and many familiar names are on the list of managers the matron of tho school is miss emily huntington ton the originator of the system of L kitchen garden training a branch of work now carried on not only at tho the wilson school and el where in this city but in other american cities and in canada england ireland scotland and prance france miss huntington Hunti agton has made the mission house her home and hero here she watches day by day the results of the methods which sho she has estabi lishne lisl d it is with a fascinating interest that one listens to the tale of how by the tha mere meret merest t chance miss huntington at eig eighteen fateen just out of school and ready to be ushered into fashions pleasures chanced to be taken by a friend to visit bragged a ragged school and how the only d daughter au ahter of fond parents put society and the usual amusements of youth aside and not in the same manner dianner ni but with the same motive as her cousin F father ather huntin huntington ton set herself about mission school work nobody could work with miss hunt ing tons energy and her capacity for organizing gan izing without develop developing iu now new ideas which should bring forth more complete work so as time passed on and she gained experience not only among the poor but with lier her own class she he mazle made ma various discoveries one was that the leisure of some of the young youn girls of af her acquaintance mi might ht readily be put to good account and another that kitchen gardening mig might with profit be adapted to the rich as well as the poor she obtained the operation cooperation co of some soma of the mothers mother saud and the interest of the tha girls so that a meeting was called for the purpose of developing a plan of moy movement ement fifty girls met at the house of one of the elder women this was in 1867 it was ivas proved that most of them no matter how well versed they were in latin and geometry knew absolutely nothing about domestic science so arrangements range menta ments were made for forming a non normal n al class which should bo divi divided d ed into companies these companies to go to td tho the mission for regular days of teaching these young women as their paths divided removed to boston chicago and elsewhere and set up kitchen gardens of their own with the result that tho the system has spread everywhere it might even bo be said with truth that the other thought that of the working 9 birb clubs emanated from this mission for miss grace H dod dodge dode 0 e was one of the fifty young women who joined in tho the work there and it was no doubt because of the experience she gained at this thib time her idea yas avas conceived and developed the girls girla became kitchan gardeners themselves and afterward when mar had placed some of them in homes of their own they wrote v rote to the founder of the system you yon havo have no idea how kitchen garden helps me with my servants and my housekeeping and to others it gave the means of livelihood god when unforeseen reverses of fortu fortune n e made them dependent upon their 0 own resources it mastbe confessed that Id garden is a rather misleading name nau 1 e for it suggests to many a place where r e vegetables are grown for kitchen use when miss huntington was askel asked about the name she said it mehus means a system by which all the intricacies of domestic domes tio science are taught sweeping dusting washing aronin ironing waiting at table etc I 1 thought a little of changing the tha name at one time because it was confounded with the term tenn vegetable garden but I 1 found nothing that quite took its place and I 1 soon discovered that the fact that th bad to be explained explain id gave it additional importance the school h hours ours are the same here as aa elsewhere from 9 to 3 there are about 00 girls ranging in age from five to ten and there are the usual lessons in reading writing and arithmetic which come under the head of study the trai training nim in the kitchen garden branches is little litt 1 else than a systematized form of pla play Y and this takes up a proportionate part of the 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