. Ohio University bulletin. Undergraduate catalog, 1911-1912. g and the teachers of it astwentieth century missionaries, spreading the gospel of hy-giene. Simultaneous with the temperance movement that issweeping the country is the spread of domestic scienceteaching. This instruction will begin in the primary gradesand be supplemented with sufficient practice to produceskill. By the time girls are graduated from the high schools,they will have some knowledge of food values and com-binations, of sanitation, of warming, lighting and ventila-tion of houses; they will know what methods are best to
. Ohio University bulletin. Undergraduate catalog, 1911-1912. g and the teachers of it astwentieth century missionaries, spreading the gospel of hy-giene. Simultaneous with the temperance movement that issweeping the country is the spread of domestic scienceteaching. This instruction will begin in the primary gradesand be supplemented with sufficient practice to produceskill. By the time girls are graduated from the high schools,they will have some knowledge of food values and com-binations, of sanitation, of warming, lighting and ventila-tion of houses; they will know what methods are best to Ohio University Bulletin 43 use in doing housework ; they will be able to sew, to makegarments, to prepare means for daily meals and to cooksimple, everyday dishes without rendering them innutri-tious. Girls thus trained will make their parents homesmore attractive and their own when they marry. False Notion Among Young Women.—To this mightbe added,—and they will realize that manual labor con-nected with the home is not deo-radinar, but if well done an. OxE OF THE Kitchens, Domestic Science Department. accomplishment to be commended. What of the girl orwoman who prides herself on a lack of knowledge as re-gards the home and its care, who shrugs her shoulders andsmiles as she admits that she really knows absolutely nothingabout housework: or, again, the one who absolutely cannotsew and does not intend to try? If domestic science weremade a regular course in all our public schools and colleges 44 Ohio University Bulletin much of this senseless disdain for the essential knowledgeof good living would certainly disappear. Is it unreasonableto hold, that while upon the woman depends so largely theexpenditure of the income, the wise management of thehome, the comfort of the inmates, she should have somespecial training for these duties? Think of the heart-aches, the discouragement and waste saved the girl thustrained; the homes made brighter, sweeter, more whole-some b} reason of
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