TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR MISSIONARY MOTHERS.
By John Harvey Kellogg
Probably the best opportunity afforded anywhere for acquiring a practical knowledge of child training is the Missionary Mothers’ Course at the Haskell Home, Battle Creek, Mich. This course includes instruction in all phases of child culture,—in the feeding and dressing of children, their physical care in health and diseases, mental and moral training, what to do in emergencies and in simple diseases, lessons in hydrotherapy, hygienic dressmaking, physical culture, healthful cookery, temperance, missionary work for children in cities, kitchen garden, and a practical experience in the direct control and management of children, which is invaluable. The plan of the home is unique. The children are not herded together, as in many institutions for children; but are divided into family groups, each of which is cared for by a “mother,” who sustains the same relation to the children that the natural mother does in her own family. Pupils may be received into the mothers’ course at any time. The present is a particularly desirable opportunity for entering this excellent course. Those who desire any further information should correspond with the chairman of the Visiting Committee, Mrs. E. H. Whitney, Battle Creek, Mich.