[Vimcdoc-translate] current of our work. We cannot turn back.

[Gutterman <co...@sa...>]

E various forms of seductive "fancy work" being almost wholly ignored.
In our exhibit at the Madison meeting of the National Educational
Association last summer were numbers of aprons, dresses, shirts, etc.,
made by pupils, often of the primary grades; and one of the most noticed
specimens was a neatly darned stocking. Even darning must be taught to
these girls in school; there is no instructor at home. 2. _Cooking_ is
much more widely understood by the colored mothers. Indeed, there is a
sort of illusory tradition abroad that the negroes are a race of cooks;
though, according to my observation, nothing could be farther from the
truth. And cooking is only one part of _domestic economy_. Of this art
as a whole, the colored women are densely ignorant. They know nothing of
orderly housekeeping, of marketing, or of economy i