Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — SEE HERE, GIRLS. [ARTICLE]

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Bad cooking and slovenly housekeeping were the direct cause of four hundred divorces in the city of Chicago last year. This statement by the head of the Chicago Bureau of Charities furnishes every housewife in the land with a subject for serious reflection. During 1902, it appears, four hundred wives who appeared at the Bureau of Charities for assistance, and later obtained divorcee, admitted that they could “neither cook nor keep house,” and, of coarse, they could not expect to keep husbands If this unfortunate condition of affairs is paralleled elsewhere, sociologists will have to wrestle with the knotty problem of bow a young man before proposing matrimony may gauge accurately a young womans knowledge of domestic science, says Robert Webster Jones, in the Housekeepoa; Shall he seek the advice of some noted authority like Mrs. Hiller, and receive thorough coaching in the subject in order to become & competent judge of his beloved’s qualifies tifis? Shall the question, “Can you cook?” precede the question, “Will yon wed?”