one of the most important factors in our public school
education of today. We have just awakened to the fact that our daughters
should receive training in those things which will best fit them for
housewives and mothers. While many of our girls are earning their own
livelihood, the majority ultimately settle into homes of their own. Many
girls have an excellent opportunity to get the training they need as
homemakers from their mothers, but many of the children in this country
lack this home training. There are two reasons for this neglect on the
part of the mothers: first, the mother may not know how to do these things
herself; and, second, she may be a wage-earner and of necessity cannot
train her daughter.

Its Moral Influence.--In the early life of the child it is susceptible to
influences which may be brought to bear upon it, and if the homemaking
instinct is instilled early much is done toward moral growth of the child.
The public school is expected to develop the child along these lines and
consequently the cookery class, together with the class in housekeeping,
has a mighty influence toward developing noble women. All the home duties
are developed and made a pleasure and not a duty to the child, so that the
home is looked upon with favorable eyes.

There is an old saying that "the way to a man's heart is through his
stomach." This contains much more truth than it would seem on the surface.
Investigators who have made careful research into the divorce question,
which has assumed such large proportions, state that if women knew more of
the science of home making there would be fewer homes broken up. What man
or woman either would not be utterly discouraged to come home day after
day to poor meals and untidiness everywhere, conditions which in time
bring poor health and disease. The public school aims through domestic
science to teach the importance and dignity of being a good housewife.

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Economy of Domestic Science.--Then again, domestic science makes a plea
for recognition on the ground of economy. Many times debt and trouble come
to homes, not through lack of sufficient funds, but through lack of
knowledge on the part of the dispenser of the funds. One of the principles
which domestic science emphasizes in its teaching is to show how some of
our cheaper foods furnish more nutriment to our systems than do some of
our more expensive articles of diet. With this fact thoroughly establish