A GERMAN SCHEME.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 3

A GERMAN SCHEME.

; : ':lvV>. : -^ .'.■;.-i , .";The. teaching'.of.oookihg'in:Gerinany; is car r . • ■ . ried . on ■ with.* German.'. .■ Not :con- ..'■■ establishing '.rural : .schools 'ivhere ; -S. farmers , ' daughters might learn, the domestic; has ;now.-. instituted travelling' ..,":■, schools. ,It';was found that . the. ruraL. schools ;. : :;.did' not .meet,■the. needs at'•■ the ■■ whole':-rural : ... population. , - The bulk ,of - this population v i 6 .;■■■■/:. made - :i]p:of small,farmers and ; in such,homes the.help_of the',daughters.is.needed. 60 con- ... stantly thjt they cannot' be.';sent away from ..: heme to .school;;.Neither;6aii; ; the.money be for "their expenses, and many farmers 1 .'are afraid,.,too,, that: afterMheir daughters had , : been way/to school they would not-be willing . ■•■■: to Teturn to the simple conditions of the farm ..., .Since will not. go : to rthe schools,' .; therefore, the-.'schools :'are being sent to' the ..-...- people/. Baden,took -tli«-lead"iii.thejeetablish. : ,/ment'of travelling schools of cooking and sew..ing, and' ifee-: idea-is.spreading rapidly', accord- '< ■■ . l S s ' io Tho Journal of; Home Economics." .-: ; Hesse, Nassau,,Franconiaj the.Palatinate, all ■-• ■■ have their travelling cooking schooU or have .. begun :to establish.; them.'-.' The. Bavarian ,;. .Farmers, Association has established.tiv o such ■ ;' schools and selected two nuns as teachers The :" association pays the teachers'and most of the : ;.';■ other expenses, .so ; that,the cost : -to the Dunils ,-'-. ,w .very, small/. In some' cases the township : ; ,.or. village, pays .all or part of the expense of ■; . -; pupils.who could not otherwise afford to attend ■ '.Me school. ~ ■','•..•.'■■• ■;. v . ; ;; , . It; has -been .found ■ that the .travelling 'school -.' "Vh?,?, m ™y,«dv'!nta ? es l.n'addition^to its accessi- . . : bihtv. ; , rhe teaptiing : C iuv be adapted to local ;•■;•■■•-;;conditions,.and the pupils can'at once put into ■."■ /pfaotice .what, they; have learned. Further/more, the can visif;the'homes of the '■'■'■ f TI S u - ?n f SM l th ° t t ;thc3r really' understand .;■ what has;been taught.v. :.■'■-. .;