Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 21

| | / \ h! | PART THREE HALF-TONE PAGES 1 TO 4, ADVERTISE IN THE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WEST '‘DOMESTIC SCIENCE 8chool for Housewives Under CORNER i CORN MUFFINS, ten dollars aplece. gentiemen, right this way.” The man is cragy. ‘Lhe idea of asking ten dollars for a corn muffin!’ “Yes, but corn, you know, is high, 50 cents a bushel, 8] Right this way, isn'e 1?2 ““Well, suppose it 18 50 cents a bushel, that oughtn't to make one little old corn muffin worth $10, and doesn't, either.” All of this is hypothetical. There is no man on an Omaha street corner offering corn muffins at this fabulous price—$10, but, just the same, there will be corn mufling made in this very city werth, or at least that will bring, $10 each, and & certain ten of them will bring $100 5 Girls, women, think of ft! A chance of a lifetime! This 18 only one of the great advantages offered to the girls who patronize the domestic sclence department of the Natlonal Corn ex- position. Of the $800 given away in prizes by that department $100 will be presented In cold cash, In glittering gold, to the young woman making the best corn wufMns—just ten A waste of money, you say? Oh, no. Is it & waste of money (0 teach the hougekeepers of tomerrow, the girls of today, how to make the most and the best of what is furnished them to furnish the table? - I8 it a wastie of money to teach these young women the science.of get- ting out of the food materials the best that is in them? Aside from the mere culture and reflnement and mental training that comes from the crucibie of such a test there is an advantage that {8 counted in dollars and cents. Getting the best out of the raw material {s econ- omy, and economy is meney. So, for the matter-of-fact materialist, who does all his reckonlug on the dollar and cents basis, the 810 mufiin has plenty of interest for him. But there is yet another side to the case. What is that that pro- motes domestio felicity? Whatever it {s, the plain, old-fashioned ele- ment of good ceoking forms a part of {t, Hvery man who has sense enough tothink of such things is an epicure and many of them are connolsseurs—all, at any rate, like good things to eat and good things to eat have a tremendous Influence on the man in more respects than the mere academic function of appeasing his hunger. Money-saver, palate-tickler, means of education, leveler of domes- tlc tranquility—i{s there anything else that need be sald for the $10 mufiin? Women Are in Earnest This part of the National Corn exposition is no jest; like every other part of this great institution, it 1s a most serious fact. And the women in control of it are in deadly earnest. They are women who have spent years of faithful study and practice in the prepara- tion of their professions and have come to be recognized the country oveY for Vh(-ir\ skill and abllity.’ Fortunate indeed is any young woman tq have the opportunity which this exposition thus presents. What might be termed “woman’s department’ of the Corn exposi- tion this year is divided into the domestic science and domestie art departments, where cooking, sewing and setting and service of the table will be taught. Miss Jessica Besack of Columbia college is in general supervision of the domestic sclence bureau, and Miss Mar- garet Blair of the University of Minnesota of the domestic art depart- ment. The other instructors are Miss Eva Barton, Humboldt col- lege; Miss Clarissa Clark, Ames; Miss Lucla Ellas, Wooster; Miss Alma McCulla, Ames. These women have all been selected because of their speclal superiority in their varfous lines of work. They are leaders in thelr profession. Miss Besack, who had charge of the work last year, has been the organizing spirit of this faculty. Very naturally some limitations had to be made in the numbers of young women admitted to the domestic sclence and art depart- ments, so some systematic basis of selection was necessary. The original method was for the county superintendents in the various states to name a young woman and the various farmers’ institutes name others who should be eligible to this school. That method stili obtains, but in addition to it this year girls and women living in Omaha, South Omaha and Counc!l Bluffs may be admitted in special classes at nights for those unable to attend during the day, or during the day for those not able to attend at night, The exposition manage- ment Is anxious to expand the Influence of this work all It possibly can and to admit to its benefits all the girls and women who can be aeccmmodated And this means 1,000, Yes, 1,000 girls and women may attend this unique school of domestic science and art this year if they wish, for the facilities will be there Cost of the Course There is & cost side of this education to the students, but it is so ifiing that except for the matter of information it-Beems not worth wentioning. The tuition for the entire term’'s work Is §2.50 for each student For this little $2.60 the exposition furnishes all the equip- ment and facilities and even provides each young woman coming from abroad with dormintory room and free admission to the entire Na- tlonal Corn exposition. Bo that she will have comfortable living quarters and means of entertalnment and enfoyment for her spare hours And those young women who want to board at the exposi- tion may do so for a small sum. Last year the exposition did mot make all these concesslons. It did not, in fact, admit the domestic sclence girls free of charge to the exposition. This, of course, entailed additional expense on these young womn, but the managment desires to make them a part of the institution and wishes to give them every advantage within its power to offer. Therefore, it has arranged and this is a big concession—to provide every one with general and specific tickets, admitting them, free, to every exhibit, every nook and corner, of the exposition ““What we want to do,”” says T. ¥. Sturgess, general manager of the exposition, is to make these young women feel that the moment they get on the inside of the National Corn exposition they are at .bome, and we believe this will tend greatly to enliven their interest And enhance the value of the benefits they derive.” Direction of Miss Jessica Besack IN THE' SEWING ROOM Laboratory and lecture work will be done. In both science and art every young woman will be taught by precept and example. In the domestic science the cook- ing will cover baking, plain and faney, invalid cooking, canning fruit, making sdlads, pastry and desserts and the setting and serv- ing of the table in the dining room. In the art department the curriculum embraces kinds of sewing. ®ach girl in both departments will be equipped with all the facilities necessary to her work and the girls learning to sew will be per- mitted to keep the cap, apron and cotton dress they make. There will be a class in cooking and a class in sewing each morning and afternoon, and then there will be the evening hours devoted to the girls and women of the Tri- Cities. .In these classes, and those during the day also for the local folk, it is expected to enlist many ‘members of prominent so- clety families. It has become popular for daughters of wealthy parents to want to escape the odium of being called ‘“Idle Rich,” and many of these young ‘women are counting on a course in these instructive branches of household art and utility this year. Already many of them have taken up such a work at the Young Women's Christian association on less pretentious selentific lines and some are ambitious to extend thelr inquiries into the more scientific channels, while they have the opoprtunity this winter, with women whose lifework it is to teach nnr%hmm'hns of study. various The exposition management this year has secured a greater area of space than it had -last year. t will be able, therefore, to devote larger and more commodicrs rooms to the domestic sclence and art The young women will be where the exposition sight-seers may view them in their splendid pursuits. A large glass partition only will separate them from the public and by this means the people who pay to see the rest of the exposition may also get good insights into this most Interesting corner of the great institution Some Home Work In addition to the laboratories and lecture rooms a model dining room will be prepared, Here the young women studying domestic sclence will be taught how to set a table properly, giving it the most attractive appearance, and then how to serve guests as they really should be served. To enable them to get practical experience in this important part of their work they will have opportunities of enter- taining the officers and notable guests of the exposition. A large dining room will be equipped where thesc men will dine by the grace of the young women. ““Taste and decorum form a large part of any science Besack, “‘and particularly of domestic science.” So propriety and attractiveness are two of the essential features of this domestic science Instruction. This effort of teaching young women and girls the proper ways of cooking and Keeping house s am effort that has become national in its scope. Large sims of money are being devoted to its exercise and some of the most serious minds of the country are giving their best thought to it. Leading institutions of learning are taking it up and In every way calculated to imjp a serious-minded man or woman the idea of practical usefulness in woman's training as a vital and essential factor in the ecoromics of the home and the natlon, is being sown broadcast. Long ago this thing passed the speculative stage of Inquiry as to its need. Men and women are no longer con- cerning themselves with that phase of the question; the purpose now says Miss is how may they best inculcate a prineciple they know to be sound and valuable utter impractica It 1s just such people who have come to recognize the bility of so much of the education that a girl gets in many of the leading female colleges; come to realize that too many of these institutions are turning their backs to the realities that give a girl a genuine training that will fit her for the homely duties of every-day life, that will make her an intelligent practical helpmeet, It is decidedly within the eternal fitness of things that the Na- tional Corn exposition should take up this character of work for the man, since it has based its existence upon a similar work for man. The underlying, all-pervading prineiple of the exposition is educa- tion It seeks primarily to educate the farmer in the ways of making two blades of grass grow whére but one grew before, o to speak, and those two blades must be of better quality than the one blade. In- tensified farming, in a word, is what brought into existence and what is perpetuating this exposition. : What It Means in Money Now then, bring this matter of domestic sclence and art down to the sordid basls of money consideration, if you please; look at it only from that standpoint, if you will. What does it present to you of tangible, living interest? Well, for those of you who have not iven the matter serious attention, let's take the word of one who has given to it years of serious attention. “The Amerioan girls on the farms alone, if thoroughly schooled in domestic science and art, would be able to save this nation avery year the tidy lttle sum of $1,000,000,000,” asserts Miss Besack. housekeeper and H‘\VIRH.\ SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1909. PROPER WAY TO LAY A TABLE FOR FOUR. Is that serious enough to arrest your attention, you man of af- fairs, who are protesting against the prices you pay for the neces- saries of life? You say this is etheral? The United States’ total annual plant and animal production is $7,500,000,000. One billion of this is eredited to agricultural sclence. If a few years ago Willett M. Hays had told the American tarmer that by practicing the prin- ciples of intensified farming or agricultural sclence he could increase the’ sum total of his harvest $1,000,000,000 the probability is the American farmer would have told Mr. Hays he was etheral. Mr. Hays, who is assistant secretary of agriculture, afirms today that, while agricultural science has done this for the farmer, so will do- mestie science do as much for the farmer's wife and daughter, and by so doing will bring the annual wealth of the farm up to $10,000,000,000. But domestic science and ‘art are to effect their results by the process of elimination—eliminating the fatal factor of waste. “A dollar saved is a dollar made.” - Trite, but true. Some years ago eastern or mid-west people who took up homes in California ébeerved that the average California family wasted enough in the course of a year to keep the ordinary eastern household that long. And when the panic of the early '90’s came a great many, a distressing number of these average California families, went into bankruptey. No farm in the country is on a firm footing that does not pay diligent heed to the possible €hannels through which waste may filter. The woman whao can get all there is out of a food article is the woman who is going to help her husband increase his income. The woman who can go to the store and intelligently buy a plece of cloth, a suit of JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture \ COPY FIVE CEN DEPARTMENT OF THE CORN SHOW in Oonnection with the Great National Corn Exposition Will Prove One of the Most Attractive Features of the Show G CAKE clothes or a beefsteak is the woman who is going to increase the an= nual output of this nation's farms $1,000,000,000 a year But know these things without studying them, That's the reason for the domestic science and art school today. Miss Besack is credited with knowing 301 ways of preparing corn for table use. Now, of course, if every woman in the land knew as much probably that billion dollars could be multiplied many times, but even if this standard of versatility in the art of cooking is not within the scope of every woman, the possibility of saving on a large scale is within the reach of all Miss Besack probably, after all, is low domestic sclence and art may save for the farms of the country and put onto their incomes and Mr. his. Suppose intensified farming and domestic science and art were brought to the maximum of their powers, who could estimate the posgibilitfes of their rescurces? With the farmer tilling the soil to its utmost possibility of production and his wife in the house con- gerving to the maximum degree the qualities of the plant he produced, there is no way of telling what the result would be. This is the goal toward which the men and women of the National Corn exposition are moving. WITHOUT E women can't in her estimate of what Hays s too conservative, perhaps, in Problem of Beef Shortage Beef shortage 1 & big problem In America. It is a problem with which every household ie concerned; a problem that touches the rick and poor allke. Anmd it I8 a problem that good men are honestly striving to solve. 8o far they have not succeeded. Meat prices are steadily rising. Some parts of the beef are almost beyond the reach, not merely of the poorer classes, but of the medium class. Many a man’s salary Is conversely cut by the very fact that his beefsteak-— to say nothing of bacon—is so abnormally high, It is a distressing and irritating problem, The Beef Producers’ assoclation of America is a strong organiza- tion and its prime purpose is the solution of this very problem. That association, national in its scope, has recognized the advantage of the domestic science department of the National Corn exposition as a medium of disseminating the information and giving the instruc- tion that it is trying to put forth the year round. 8o this organiza- tion has arranged to co-operate with Miss Besack’s department for the three weeks of this exposition and lay before the people in most impressive array facts calculated to arouse them to intelligent action. Involved in this problem of beef shortgge are many factors, mak- ing an intricate question. Our exports are decreasing and imports increasing: receipts at the slaughter houses show that we are killing more calves and fewer cattle all the time. The ranger complains that recent laws subdividing the territory over which his herds formerly grazed militate against him; that the big ranger I8 being driven out by the settler. All these are factors in this complicated situation. But back and underneath it all lies a fact of which the people are efther densely ignorant, or knowing, have never sought to treat. This faet is that the consumer has come to regard but two parts of the beef as desirable—the loin and ribs—and the result is he had mag- nified their value with himself ahd the seller to the injury, if not the exclusion, of the other parts. This In turn brings about a waste of other portions and finally creates a demand which the range cannot supply, and the whole produces prices that are scandalous. More Knowledge for Women In the rudiments; then, of the simple process of cutting and buy- ing beef this domestic science department, through the instrumen- tality of the Beef Producers’ Association of America, proposes to in- struct the women and girls. The Beef Producers’ association con- tends that-every part of the beef is good and desirable and that some parts now all but discarded may be made just as palatable as the coveted ribs and loins. But it will take intelligent and systematic drumming of this fact to get it into the heads of the rank and file of people. It has, therefore, not stopped at the National Corn exposi- tion, but it has projected this line of learning into some of the lead- ing domestic sclence schools of the country. ” To accomplish its purpose the Beef Producers’ association divided the carcass into nine commercial cuts and the domestic sc ence department will take up these cuts, show their quality, how to buy and prepare them and show that each may be made highly de- sirable About the only thing that the average woman who buys the family meat knows concerning the beef is that the loins and ribs are the cholce parts; she does not know that they form only about 26 per cent of the carcass, nor that about 80 per cent of the pur- chasing public is demanding that 26 per cent, or the small portion of the becf. The average woman goes or telephones to her butcher for a “good steak,” or “a good roast,” and if she gets a rib or loin she thinks she has been satisfled. Maybe she got a rib or loin that was far, from fresh, while a fresh chuck, or round or flank, lay on the same block If the woman knew about the various portions of the beef and went to the shop to make her purchase she could save her money and get meat that would do her and her family far more good than tnder present conditions. ‘Disabuse your minds of the fact place the cheaper cuts of beef or that it your table,” is not fashionable to says Miss Besack in one of her lectures. This matter of cheap or expensive meat proposition the quality is purely an arbitrary The demand cheates the supply, but does not change of the beef. Those parts made cheap by the insistent demand for those parts made high in price might be regarded as the dearer cuts if only it should become stylish to give them preference Unless conditions are changed, unless the people give intellient hieed to this question, the cry of beef shortage will hecome one pande- monium of despair-and the eattlemen on the rauge and the packer in the city will be powerless to help the situation. The solution, so these authorities urge, rests entirely with the consumer. If he (or ehe In this case) will cease boycotting parts of the beef by her ig- norant purchasing and cooking she will contribute very vitally to the redress of her own grievances and to that of the man who is trylng to supply the demand for beef.