Program of the Home Economics Department, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Thirteenth Biennial Convention, Friday Morning, May 26, Seventh Regiment Armory, Helen Louise Johnson, Chairman.

Report, Miss Johnson, Chairman; Address, Hon. David R. Houston, Sec. of Agr.; Home Making as a Fine Art, Dr. George E. Vincent, Pres. Univ. of Minn. Friday Afternoon, Home Economics Conference. Greetings, Miss Georgie Bacon.

Food, Mrs. Frederick F. Faville, Chairman: Why We Need Uniform Food Laws, Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, Chief, Bur. of Chem.; Why We Need to Study Food Values, Miss Helen Atwater, Office of Home Econ., Dept. of Agr.

Shelter, Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon, Chairman: How Women Can Help Solve the Housing Problem, Mr. Lawrence Veiller, Pres., National Housing Assn.; Home Economics and Shelter, Miss Mabel Hyde Kittredge, Pres. Assn. of Practical Housekeeping Centers, New York.

The Child, Mrs. Charles W. Greene, ViceChairman: The Child in the Home, Miss Sarah Louise Arnold, Dean, Simmons College; Education of Mothers as a Problem in Democracy, Miss Julia Lathrop, Chief, Children's Bur.

Clothing, Miss Pearl MacDonald, Chairman: Clothes and the Woman, Mrs. Louis F. Post, Washington, D. C., and Mr. Frank A. Parsons, Pres. School of Fine Arts, New York.

Saturday Evening, May 27, Hotel Astor, The Home Economics Exhibit consisting of the History of Costume Presented on Living Models, prepared under the direction of Miss Jane Fales, Teachers College. The exhibit will continue, an hour each day, through Wednesday.

In connection with the exhibit, short talks

will be given by Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, Pres., General Federation, and others, ending with a conference on Wednesday.

Monday Afternoon, May 29, Hotel Astor, Miss Bertha M. Terrill of the Univ. of Vt. presiding.

Extension Work in Home Economics: The Smith-Lever Law and its Administration, Dr. A. C. True, States Relations Service; The County Agent and Her Work, Miss Mary E. Creswell, Home Demonstration Work, Washington, D. C.; Work in Rural Clubs, Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, Pres. Amer. Home Econ. Assn., Cornell Univ., and others.

Tuesday Afternoon, May 30, Home Economics Headquarters, Seventh Regiment Armory, Mrs. Joseph T. Gawler presiding: An open conference on Club Problems in Home Economics.

National Conference of Charities and Correction. Educators will join with social workers at the forty-third annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at Indianapolis, Indiana, May 10 to 17 in considering what both can do toward solving the big problem of giving children the most effective education and training possible.

Ground that is comparatively new for the conference will be covered by the section on children, of which Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Chief of the Federal Children's Bureau, is the chairman.

A broad field of community problems will be covered by eight other sections of the conference. That on the family and the community will take up the coördination of civic effort in small communities. In its general session the conference will consider conditions adverse to efficient public work under democratic government.

The Ellen Richards Research Prize. The Naples Table Association for Promoting Laboratory Research by Women announces the offer of an eighth prize of one thousand dollars for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific subject. This thesis must embody new observations and new conclusions based on independent laboratory research in biological (including psychological), chemical or physical science. The theses offered must be in the hands of the chairman of the committee on the prize, Dr. Lilian Welsh, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., before February 25, 1917. The title page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name; and the writer must send with her manuscript, a sealed envelope containing her application blank and superscribed with her assumed name.

In April, 1911, the prize was named the Ellen Richards Research Prize in recognition of the devoted service of Mrs. Richards as chairman of the committee on the prize since its appointment in 1900.

Further information may be obtained from the chairman, Dr. Welsh.

The Next Generation. The National Council of Education, after the discussion on "The New Ideal in Education-Better Parents of Better Children," at Detroit, created a "committee to study methods of promoting the ideal of racial well-being," of which Dr. Helen C. Putnam is chairman.

This committee announces a fund, $1,000 annually for four years, "to be used to help place popular ideals of responsibility for the race above commercial ideals and above individualism."

This fund is to be used for prizes to graduating classes of 1917 in state normal institutions and in departments (or courses) of education and of Home Economics in colleges (including agricultural) and universities, for the best coöperative study by a class of the following proposition: The supreme object of education should be to make the next generation better than living generations. A detailed statement of the conditions of the prizes may be found in the

April Bulletin of the N. E. A., or may be secured from Dr. Putnam, Rhode Island Ave., Providence, R. I.

Immediate notice should be sent by those who intend to enter the contest.

The

Public Lectures on Nutrition. Washington Academy of Sciences announced a series of illustrated lectures on nutrition, open to the public, to be given on Friday afternoons during April, 1916, in the auditorium of the New National Museum. The lecturers are men distinguished for their contributions to the great advances recently made in the study of nutrition.

The lecturers and their subjects are as follows:

April 7. Dr. Eugene F. DuBois, Medical Director Russell Sage Institute of Pathology, New York: The Basal Food Requirement of Man.

April 14. Dr. Graham Lusk, Professor of Physiology, Cornell University Medical College: Nutrition and Food Economics.

April 21. Dr. E. B. Forbes, Chief, Department of Nutrition, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station: Investigations on the Mineral Metabolism of Animals.

April 28. Dr. Carl Voegtlin, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington: The Relation of the Vitamines to Nutrition in Health and Disease.

Mrs. Lillian Massey Treble. Home Economics in Canada owes much to the work of Mrs. Lillian Massey Treble whose life came to an end November 3, 1915. Trustee of a large sum of money bequeathed by her father, she found her first work in the development of the Fred Victor Mission to which her father had given a valuable building. That the ministries of this mission might better reach out and touch the home, the School for Deaconesses was founded. Later beginning in a small way with the establishment of a kitchen garden in the Mission, where the younger girls were taught the simplest rudiments of the great lore of housekeeping, was developed the Lillian Massey School of Domestic Science. In

1902 the course of Household Science was inaugurated in the University of Toronto but the teaching was carried on in this school in the Fred Victor building. In 1904 Miss Massey made a formal offer of a building to the University. This building is today one of the most imposing and most thoroughly equipped buildings in the great University group, and Household Science is one of the special courses leading to the B.A. degree. The work is in charge of Miss Laird, and it has justified many times over Mrs. Treble's faith in its possibilities.

A New Phase of Missionary Preparation. It is not many years since the missionary went to his work in other lands with no thought of any special preparation in the knowledge of food and diet or of sanitation.

It is interesting to know that the student Volunteers of Teachers College asked this last winter for a series of five lectures on nutrition. Mrs. Mary Swartz Rose, with the assistance of Miss McCormick and Miss Pope, is giving the course under the titles: (1) Food for health and efficiency; (2) The diet of the missionary in the field; (3) Food for babies and children in the Orient; (4) The characteristics of native Oriental diets and ways of improving them; (5) Food in sickness.

The University of Illinois. The Household Science Club and Omicron Nu observed Richards Day by an "open house" giving the play, Prince Caloric and Princess Pieta. The tangible results were a contribution of fifty dollars to the Richards Memorial Fund and the recognition of the fact that the content of Home Economics has material for amusement as well as instruction.

The Department gave a somewhat unusual short course, viz., one for bakers, January 31 to March 4. Because the venture was more or less of an experiment and the University Bake Shop is small, the numbers were limited, but they were a representative

group of men, selected by the officers of the Master Bakers' Association. The program was in charge of Prof. Isabel Bevier, Head of the Department of Household Science, and instruction was given by Dr. C. H. Bailey, Cereal Technologist of the University of Minnesota, Dr. F. L. Stevens, Professor of Plant Pathology of the University of Illinois, Miss Anna Williams and other members of the staff of the Household Science Department.

The following paragraph from the report of the State Leader in Home Economics Extension, Miss Mamie Bunch, shows, in so far as statistics can, the results of the work of that Department.

"During this year so far, this Department has conducted 73 weeks of demonstration schools, serving 14,230 people, and 172 separate lectures and demonstrations, serving 67 counties and 19,065 people, in addition to the two weeks' School for Housekeepers here at the University, with its 425 representatives from 35 counties of Illinois and visitors from 7 states. The demonstration car has had 6,201 visitors and 4 weeks of demonstration schools have been given in connection with its service. All told, the Extension Department in Home Economics has served this year 39,921 people."

Simmons College Summer School. The Summer Session of the School of Household Economics at Simmons College has been established permanently. The large enrollment of 1915 proved that it satisfies a real need. The school is in session this year from July 3 to August 11. The program includes courses in Principles of Cookery, Menu Making and Meal Service, Method of Teaching Cookery, Dietetics, Plain Sewing, Dressmaking, Millinery, Methods of Teaching Sewing, Costume Design, Elementary Inorganic Chemistry, Elementary Organic Chemistry, Food Analysis, Bacteriology, and Public Health Problems. In addition to members of the regular faculty the services of Mrs. Jessamine Chapman Williams of

the University of Arizona, Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon of the Extension Service of North Carolina, and Miss Celestine Schmit of the University of Wisconsin have been secured. Among the special lectures open to students of the school are a group of lectures by Miss Winifred Gibbs of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York City, and a group by Miss Sarah G. Flint, Assistant in Charge of Textiles, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The University of Texas. Home Economics week was observed at the University of Texas in February, under the direction of the School of Domestic Economy and the Home Welfare Division of the Department of Extension. The object of the conference as stated by Miss Gearing, was "to stress the relation between the home and the community." The program, with the aid of speakers from New York, Chicago and Boston, carried out this purpose in an unusual way. Mrs. W. I. Thomas, of Chicago, spoke on the Social Needs of the Woman in Industry, the Child in the Community, and on Madam, Who Keeps Your House? Mr. Ford, a landscape architect from New York, included under his general subject of Town Planning, the Citizens Share in Planning the Town, and Planning the Town for Homes, while Dr. James, of the University of Texas, discussed Woman's Part in City Government. Public Health and the Food Supply, the Purity of the Water Supply, and other topics relating to public health, were included. Mrs. Ruth Carson, of Boston, gave five lectures on dress. Among her subjects were The Personality of Clothes, and Fashion in the Light of Art. The exhibit that accompanied the conference dealt with some of the fundamental sanitary, social and economic problems of the home and the municipality, and was directly related to the lectures. There were four main divisions of the exhibit. The first consisted of sanitary charts; the next dealt with the economics of the home; the third represented civic art, and the fourth recreational aspects of city life.

Oregon State Agricultural College. Miss Ravenhill, who lectured at the college during the winter Short Course and is to return for three weeks during the summer school sends the following report: The Home Makers' Conference at the Oregon State Agricultural College, early in January, held twelve sessions, four hours each. The weather was mostly atrocious; there were no street cars at Corvallis; grippe had run riot there as elsewhere; but except from eight to nine in the morning the hall was packed, hour by hour, day by day. The lecturers sometimes had hard work to escape from crowds of eager questioners, anxious for fuller details on various points. Extra sessions were held to meet the demand.

The program included cookery demonstrations by that mistress of the art, Miss Anna Barrows, educational in method, with no pandering to tasting and touching. The audience had to think and think hard, too. Admirable lectures on the bacteriological aspects of colds, of children's diseases, and of protection of water and foods were given by college professors. There was practical instruction on vegetable and flower gardening; on the planning of houses; on the difficulties of dressmaking; on art in the home; while a most lucid exposition was given of household accounts and budgets.

There was a series of lectures on what might be termed the Science of Human Life: the rhythms which influence and the conditions which make for efficiency were indicated; the sanitary possibilities in rural homes and the recreational needs of the young folks were dealt with in practical detail; problems as to relative influence of nature and nurture were clearly presented; habit formation in early life and what to learn from the intelligent observation of children were discussed. In each case the best methods of applying in home or community life the results of some acquaintance with the principles which underlie them were laid down and emphasized.

Such a comprehensive program and the appreciation of its packed audiences give evidence of the real desire of our home