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Messages to Young People
Learn How to Cook
Both young men and women should be taught how to cook eco-
nomically, and to dispense with everything in the line of flesh food.
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Let no encouragement be given to the preparation of dishes which
are composed in any degree of flesh food, for this is pointing to the
darkness and ignorance of Egypt, rather than to the purity of health
reform.
Women especially should learn how to cook. What part of the
education of a girl is so important as this? Whatever may be her
circumstances in life, here is knowledge that she may put to practical
use....
In the Mission Field
Culture on all points of practical life will make our youth useful
after they leave the school to go to foreign countries. They will not
then have to depend upon the people to whom they go to cook and sew
for them, or to build their habitations. And they will be much more
influential if they show that they can educate the ignorant how to labor
with the best methods and to produce the best results. A smaller fund
will be required to sustain such missionaries, because they have put
to the very best use their physical powers in useful, practical labor
combined with their studies. This will be appreciated where means
are difficult to obtain. They will reveal that missionaries can become
educators in teaching how to labor. And wherever they may go, all that
they have gained in this line will give them standing-room.—
Counsels
to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 307-314
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