Show KITCHEN TRAINING A wark WHICH HAS HELPED D MAY MAN POOR AND RICH FAMILIES 4 whal kitchen garden training means gifun how it was started mid and by whom bliss great work for lie her 1 leo ess rort fortunate slater sisters in a Ws inic city 1 there is BO so much to find fault with and BO so much to wish for in such a great big dirty city as ours 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 the pleasant school house which it now is this school which was the first institution of the kind in america is not endowed and is maintained entirely by voluntary contribution mrs jonathan sturges is the first director and many familiar names are on the list of managers the matron of the school is miss emily huntington originator the of tha system of kitchen garden training a branch of work now carried on not only at the wilson school and elsewhere in this city but in other american cities and in canada england ireland scotland and prance france miss huntington has made the mission house her home and hero here she watches day by day the results of the methods which she has established it is with a fascinating interest that one listens to the tale of how by tho the merest chance miss huntington at eighteen just butof out of school and ready to be bo ushered into fashions pleasures chanced to be taken by a friend to visit a ragged school and how the only da daughter u ahter of fond parents put society an and d the usual amusements of youth aside and not in the same manner but with the same motive as her cousin fai ther huntington set herself about mission school work nobody could work with miss hunt ing tona tons energy and her capacity for organizing gan izing without developing 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 made various discoveries one was that the leisure of some of the young girls of lier her acquaintance might readily be put to good account and another that kitchen gardening might with profit be adapted to the rich as well as the poor she obtained the operation cooperation co of some of the mothers and the interest of the girls so that a meeting was called for the purpose of developing a plan at bf movement fifty girls met at the house of one of the elder women this was in 1867 it was proved that most of them no matter how well versed they were in latin and geometry knew absolutely nothing about dome domestic stio science so arrangements range ments were made for forming a normal class clam which should be divided into companies these comp companies anies t to go to 0 the mission for regular days of teach teaching these young women as their paths divided removed to boston chicago and elsewhere and set up kitchen gardens of their own awn with the result that the system has spread everywhere it might even be said with truth that the other thought that of the working girls clubs emanated from this mission for miss grace 11 II dodge was one of the fifty young women who joined in the work there and it was no doubt because of the experience she gained at this time her idea was conceived and developed the girls became kitchen gardeners themselves and afterward when marriage had placed some of them in homes of their own they wrote to the founder of the system you have bave no idea how kitchen garden helps me with my servants and my housekeeping and to others it gave the means of livelihood when unforeseen reverses of fortune made them dependent upon their own resources it must bo be confessed that kitchen garden gardere is a rather misleading name wame f for or it suggests to many a place where vegetables are grown for kitchen use when miss huntington was asked about the name she said it means a system by which all the intricacies of domestic science are taught sweeping dusting washing ironing waiting at table etc I 1 thought a little of changing the name at one time because it was confounded with the term vegetable garden but I 1 found nothing that quite took its place and asid I 1 soon discovered that the fact that the name had to be explained gave it additional importance the school hours are the same here as elsewhere from 0 9 to 8 there are about girls ranging in fit age from froin five to ten and there are the usual lessons in reading writing and arithmetic which come under alio head of study the training in the kitchen garden branches is little else alian a systematized form of play and this takes up a proportionate part of tho the school day dayhew new york tribune nickel ships cant go north the th e remarkable discovery of the effect of temperature on the density of nickel steel is likely to have an sin important bearing on its use in the construction st of war vessels af after ter this variety of steel has been frozen it is readily magnetized and moreover its density is permanently reduced fully 2 per benl ent by the exposure to the cold it is stated 6 ta ted that a ship dfwar of war built in the temperate climate of ordinary steel and clad with say tons of nickel steel armor would be destroyed by a visit to the arctic regions owing to tb the contraction of the steel by the extreme low temperature new york journal |