Show STATUS OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE SClE iNCE IN SCHOOLS ill er rand before the scientific boci soci society ty ly by aliks white Vl lite tile Iiii history tory of education in in the united states is ia parallel with united states Ili IIii tory story among aanon tile first nets acts of the new england states wan wai the oun diny dirig of institutions in As AH aduca adu en tors I 1 talce take it that we are arc familiar with the his history toty of those thoo institutions and arely refresh our memory ly by stating dhati inadequate as tile training ly by the reading icat lini writing wiit ins and gra tumor schools of the parly at and middle leth century was as it was provided for boys only girls might bo be taught but they acio refused admi hion into the schools it wati was near the end of 0 tho the century bo be foro fore anything wits was done dino for their education the damor schools wore tho the only organized agencies out outside tido tho the homo home tind find they flioy aro said to have afforded afford cil to learn need ae work dancing improvements in manners it iti is iu I 1 lland te resting tor to noto note the steps of pro progreso gres slon in tho the education of girls as ovi deuced by their adini to the redi reding ing nr arid writing schools schoola for one hour a dy of their instruction in tile tho summers summer in arithmetic geography and compoli tion by thoi their r brothers who wore were yalo yale students and tile tho various devices de vicca by which they wore presented with tile tho of education tho the only schools to which girla girls admitted in boston in 1774 were the writing schools held between tho the forenoon and afternoon sa alons of tile public school in 1790 the school board of Glou stor voted that two hours licurs of the eight hours tours of dully daily instruction st bo be devoted to girls girla na they hoy are anro it a tender all and branch of the coll lilt ni ty but have boon nes lifted lit in tho public schoola of f t thia it is town noti not uchi noro wits was doncost dono for alio tender and interesting branch bran cli by the pub kc ife until 1820 when mis airs willarda fe analo seminary wa organized and when ft year inter catharino Cat horino school was established nt at hartford the thobro cosa ia ly by which girls to bo bi granv to funned from froin females to women was began anil and yet when in 1826 the high school for girls which boston had bad so magnanimously established had become to NJ popular tho the appi applicants cants for admission so ho numerous so BO many parents wore were that their children were not received and tho the doman J for larger and butter better accommodation I 1 on adding ad dit ional ex expenditures tures so BO imperative the mchoul board mot met tile the emergency by abolishing the school and calling it a failure Ilo however the enlightened citi zeris of new england were not all thus resting on oil their oara coarts in 1789 1780 a private academy said to ba tile the first for girls was opened at madford Mcd ford biess academy exter ex tor leicester westford West tord bradford adams and abbot al all either expressly for girls or educational coeducational co were T su noted coiza in the succeeding two score coro years in now E england Menti meantime time tho the revolutionary period had been passed and tho the social tind rind economic conditions of tho the country demanded a now standard for education tho scientific inventions and discoveries and tho consequent industrial develop ent mado necessary appropriate instruments st tho the content of education was enlarged to include technical training freiti demand was met in in part by the file introduction of what was known as manual labor seminaries examples of which are aio Renn N Y in ieli 1821 and the fellenberg Fel lonberg institute of windsor conn the experiment was tried in a number of states but was not always successful however they had their part in enlarging tho the educational content and dign tying labor to bp be surn sum llonch music and painting was still the ideal of tile the tender and interesting branch but that ideal was being undermined derin der mined ined tile the founding of oberlin college in for both sexes tile the introduction 0 of I 1 a school for engineers in 1835 in troy Y tile the opening of meant seminary norn inary 1817 18 17 1 ho beginnings of normal hormal schools 1839 lexington Lox ington mass the founding of the now new england female medicus college 1842 are all illustrations of the broadening educational outlook and the recognition of the need of definite training for special work the engineer the teacher the nurse were given for definite nite professional training tile the early though cruel held value for development purposes the ravages of war forced the demao por tion of tho the family ti t outer enter theia the fe d ai bread winners ani uso usa began more extensively to taka the place of culture in education the ideal of manual tta training ining received a groat great impetus in the centennial exhibition of 1870 and and led in the next decade to the founding of schools for manual training in most of tile the large cities the first bring in st louia in 1879 by the close cloae of the century it was evident to the of educational affairs that the industrial spirit A afis fis a mighty factor in education that courses in applied science and ni 1 I applied art would hav a in the chool choo pro gram and that a knowledge vf cf the classics was no n longer the only measuring unit for educational 7 baand ards aud thus through the he centuries stop step by woman marched lo 10 floiad iad her li 4 t tion by her own off ortal ab wo in man an bound by thel the traci tradition rion 11 pi t aff would have continued a 11 tender tande jsn affia ria tr frosting branch for some time to cc com had not circumstance ci re u instances iid and the mom liberal minded of hor ber brothers borew emancipation upon hor all in tu r aro content cun eun tent f to remain in the bodder of ignorance yet to us in the west education coeducation co la is aa i fu that yvo wo probably open cubr ayo f in amazement to loarn that the daou saou ment of act the cast is against it IL tai a published in byrbe national of lot wu fuccio tio 14 to declare that about two thirds ot of A the total af scho apor ing ing and oro 65 per ont vant t college aud un have adopted the ibe policy of co education that near have we ve pt gut to ta intellectual emancipation tor tae and now as regards the ot of aba subject in hand domestic science domestic economy humek br whatever name you gerwit giro it aba uka placid conference of hoin tf economics decided upon the ter term m home what is is meant by the tv h on an I 1 awer confidently conti dently given by iu is cooking and sowing bowing bucl fool poo caption IB it pitifully narrow if V ava science spans no wider mider horison hw 1 that there is iri just why educator 4 should count the cost to oi of to who have most studied the th it III I 1 broadas broad as the world andi and vital fial as lifa lif ly political economy is ia meant all that bears most intimately ou the state W aoa A nati nation oril bonu abic economy include all thit that bears upon hom U and human development and it if t this 1 if 7 true it i is s the neue ua 0 of f every mthr c economy conomy lit in I 1 the world Y no but touches touch esit it history science ignee altera turo ture I 1 longares n ia s at a part of tt ith it and tineva Z to the past artis art is the stimulus to greater groate beauty and truer ideals ideal of to clity and fib biology aved ari 4 religion ligion aro are the be beacon lights of the future dewey say baye After rm life is the great thing and f economy mean the conceptio nAnd abil wain main denance of life at re te best ars frs 11 II woman who ie to be foremost in the rhe develop development ident ut the he sub subject j act i i iris ira present continued on sixth page STATUS OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE IN SCHOOLS continued arcin flait pago nh as follows homo economics stands for tho the ideal homo home life of toddy today ed by tho traditions of tit the pact fillet alo a utilization of nil all tile resources of modern science to tit alio gioino eirv tile the freedom ot of tile tho home front froin tit alio dominance of things lind and their duo di dinn nation tion to ideals tile alio simplicity lit in material nil brou nd inga i which will most inot free the spirit from froin the anoro important lant and permanent of tho homo and of society K 0 ilicich for what 1 it in do you got tile full con coplion it if you do you are ahead of th alio odines times ponder it well while there is a growing appreciation for tile tho there la Is fitall it tendency to class I 1 it aan as n fall and n fear if over crowding tho cir luin of our pit public aie schools in other words a luck lack of understanding it of tho subject I 1 duoto from a report of tho the lako placid confor anco on llomo homo economics does society show any neoda needs that such it a question luch tion sho ild nicot and surely rely tile mo it casual student of social condi timm must see BOO that a largo portion of our population both rich atil poor is 18 in ili it a poor liby condition and that is in 1 con quence great economic jor for lack gilck of vigor means luck lack of ac complis limont and also makes nolon no lon sary bary largo expenditures for reine dial mean measures ures with bottor better shelter phol tor food water ventilation rational ration til elvan lins is and proper clothing n chock check would bo be placed on thi g s ono enormous rinous anoro real work would bo be done and thoro would boi bo tower fewer patent foods food i and bo hospitals another common waste I 1 is through poor ioor buying and extravagant use uee of materials to what arp these things duo doubtless to many influences but potent among thein is in ignorance of women in the management of their tho the agricultural college of sots fourth in regard to its homa economics course that is tho aim of the to give to earnest and women a liberal and practical education which should fit thorn them for their great duties and trusts making them tho equals of their husbands lius banda and associate ii and enabling them to bring tho the a ad 1 id of science and cul culture ture to lo all important labors and vocations of womanhood wo we havo have discarded the old notion that education is is a necessity necca nece sity ity to man but only an ornament tit to women yet it is hard for us its to grasp tit the full moaning of womans comans in ili tit alio early days daya of education coeducation co women were interested into rosted in keeping stop intellectually ly with mth men that they gavol them selves helves to strenuously to tho the joy of that privilege it is almost the minority now that havo have discovered dis coverd that lier her brodi or takes chemistry and gy not because someone lins told hini him that they ought to form a part of a liberal kau cation but because lio lie erpf acts to uso use liin his knowledge later in liis his work with koi i oils 11 s or in tile the dalry dairy too much of bonit ns work along the line of chemistry h lias as been an indefinite playing with tobt tubes in which ono one of three result 4 was to be expected a beautiful color a bad odor or nn an explosion site bo be taught to realize that there is ia it a 1 fielo field of applied science for women ns na well aswell as well as tor for men that tho las lassof 0 hent heat can bo be illustrated by the kit kitchen elion firo fire as adequately asby as by tho the on 1 gine that alint tile tho life history lii story of bactoria ria can bo be studied in many household pro and that the chemistry of food is better suited to other needs wan th an blint of stones under minor elegy it ignorance igno ranco is a weakness and disaster in places of business where tile income is won well it is equally so bo in places of living whore where tho the income is il expended 31 11 belenco can aid agriculture and the alio mechanical arts arid to use more successfully na natures forces and to increase tile tho amount of value of their products it can equally aid tho the lit in tile liner filter and more complicated uso use of these forces and agencies in tile tho homo home where winter io ie to bo be changed into genial sur summer surginer niner ba b artificial fires and darkness dachne s into day by costly illumination where horo tile raw pro ducts of tho the held field are to bo be transformed into sweet ant and wholesome fee food fly by a cho chemistry finer than unit that of soils anti the products of a hundred manufactories manu factories are to ba put into their final uso for tile tho health anil and happiness of life this practical ago age recognizes tho the necessity of a sound material and physical media ar the expression expression of tile the econ economic ornic and I 1 e esthetic ideas and so BO is willing to give part of its best energies to tile consideration of this earth upon which wo t trend read the air wo we breathe the water wo we drink the food wo we live anthe on tho house wo we livo live in and the cleothos wo we wear the old idea that anyone can f farm arm and anyone con can cook has well nigh di disappeared sippe tired and wit with I 1 it tho ILI iida that hint plowing only tilts of tile ro ly ai 1 i liti of hot alm ilm find ili stry Contin tid noff wook |