Nebraska Child Welfare. The Child Welfare work at the Nebraska State Fair added this year an important section, the examination of children who are below normal. The work of previous years had been the scoring of the best babies. The Child Welfare booth had been for years one of the most popular places on the grounds but it I was felt that it did not reach the children most in need of help. Dr. Sophie Hinze Scott of Des Moines, Ia., was in charge of this new section. Mrs. LeMar of Osceola, Nebraska, was in charge of the entire work, and Miss Alice Loomis, of the University of Nebraska, was one of the helpers.

The Woman's Club work in the Extension Division of the University of Nebraska has a unique organization and one that is unusually satisfactory. Mrs. Emma Reed Davisson is in charge of this work. Her province is the bringing to the women of Nebraska all that the University can offer along Home Economics lines through Club study. In the past year three hundred clubs have been assisted, one hundred twelve of which are purely rural. Rural is here applied to only those communities that are outside of any village however small. Some of the women come thirty miles to a meeting. This work is, in many cases, "the follow-up" of the one week continuation schools that were held last year.

The assistance consists in helping clubs to organize and in furnishing them suggestions and material for study. Through cooperation with the State Circulating Library, a Home Economics Library has been made available. There have not been enough of these libraries to supply the demand since the courses of study have been issued. This librarian and Mrs. Davisson also send out interesting readings for clubs

not wishing to prepare a program. Usually the next year a club will undertake a miscellaneous program or the program for the study of Nebraska. Later on they take up special lines of study and work. Many of the clubs are doing splendid pieces of civic work. A civic outline and material on Child Welfare have been particularly useful. Mrs. Davisson's work for Home Welfare has been recognized by the State Federation of Clubs in which she is Home Economics chairman. She is also president of the Nebraska Home Economics Association. This summer she studied Pediatrics in Harvard medical school. All indications are that the Child Welfare work is one of the most needed. Through the coöperation of a number of agencies, the department is able to keep in close touch with both the desires and needs of the home makers of the state. With these in mind the work is expanded each year.

The Summer Session of the School of Practical Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University, brought together the largest number of students in household arts in the history of the institution. Four hundred and fifty separate registrations were made in the courses in foods and cookery, about 100 in dietetics courses and as many in the economics of the household, including a graduate group of twenty, and there were similar large registrations in all of the household arts departments. The School of Practical Arts offered altogether in its departments of households arts, fine arts, industrial arts, music, and physical education, 312 points of instruction; and there were over 5500 points registered by the summer students. An average student program is 6 points.

Nebraska Child Welfare. The Child Welfare work at the Nebraska State Fair added this year an important section, the examination of children who are below normal. The work of previous years had been the scoring of the best babies. The Child Welfare booth had been for years one of the most popular places on the grounds but it was felt that it did not reach the children most in need of help. Dr. Sophie Hinze Scott of Des Moines, Ia., was in charge of this new section. Mrs. LeMar of Osceola, Nebraska, was in charge of the entire work, and Miss Alice Loomis, of the University of Nebraska, was one of the helpers.

The Woman's Club work in the Extension Division of the University of Nebraska has a unique organization and one that is unusually satisfactory. Mrs. Emma Reed Davisson is in charge of this work. Her province is the bringing to the women of Nebraska all that the University can offer along Home Economics lines through Club study. In the past year three hundred clubs have been assisted, one hundred twelve of which are purely rural. Rural is here applied to only those communities that are outside of any village however small. Some of the women come thirty miles to a meeting. This work is, in many cases, "the follow-up" of the one week continuation schools that were held last year.

The assistance consists in helping clubs to organize and in furnishing them suggestions and material for study. Through cooperation with the State Circulating Library, a Home Economics Library has been made available. There have not been enough of these libraries to supply the demand since the courses of study have been issued. This librarian and Mrs. Davisson also send out interesting readings for clubs

not wishing to prepare a program. Usually the next year a club will undertake a miscellaneous program or the program for the study of Nebraska. Later on they take up special lines of study and work. Many of the clubs are doing splendid pieces of civic work. A civic outline and material on Child Welfare have been particularly useful. Mrs. Davisson's work for Home Welfare has been recognized by the State Federation of Clubs in which she is Home Economics chairman. She is also president of the Nebraska Home Economics Association. This summer she studied Pediatrics in Harvard medical school. All indications are that the Child Welfare work is one of the most needed. Through the coöperation of a number of agencies, the department is able to keep in close touch with both the desires and needs of the home makers of the state. With these in mind the work is expanded each year.

The Summer Session of the School of Practical Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University, brought together the largest number of students in household arts in the history of the institution. Four hundred and fifty separate registrations were made in the courses in foods and cookery, about 100 in dietetics courses and as many in the economics of the household, including a graduate group of twenty, and there were similar large registrations in all of the household arts departments. The School of Practical Arts offered altogether in its departments of households arts, fine arts, industrial arts, music, and physical education, 312 points of instruction; and there were over 5500 points registered by the summer students. An average student program is 6 points.

Pratt Institute, School of Household Science and Arts. It is often recognized that the average Normal School or College student majoring in household science begins to teach cooking with little or no personal experience in the actual preparation and serving of family meals.

This lack of experience was taken by Pratt Institute as the keynote for the summer work required of all returning students in the Normal Household Science course. In order to become a fully accepted senior, therefore, every student who has passed her junior examinations must have carried out in detail before September 20, 1916, the following schedule:

Required: The serving of three meals daily for a family of not less than four persons for fourteen consecutive days. This to include:

a. Menu making.

b. Purchase of all food supplies.

c. Preparation of all food served, except that baker's bread may be used once a day, preferably in toast.

d. Washing of all dishes and utensils in the preparation of food. The washing of dishes and silver used on the dining table may be partly or wholly done by someone else.

e. Keeping records as follows:

1. All menus, with number of persons served, total cost and per capita cost. Each menu to be dated, signed, and name of town and state given.

2. Staple price list, a copy of staples being given each student and prices filled in as used, price variations being noted wherever signified.

3. Recipes that are new and good to be put on separate index cards.

4. Conditions of work.

5. Record on one card giving the following data:

a. Average number eating each meal. b. Total food cost for the 42 meals. c. Per capita daily cost. 6. Points for observation. During the fourteen days the student is exempt from preparing the evening meal on

Sundays and on any one other night each week, but must buy for and plan these meals and include in all reports.

Where the student has a family of seven or more to cook for she may have help in all dish washing and may use her own discretion as to buying bread, reporting accordingly.

The Home Economics Association of Philadelphia has planned, for the coming year, to have the various committees in charge of the different meetings, with the chairman of another committee acting as hostess. The first fall meeting will be given over to the report from Cornell, and the History of Home Economics in Philadelphia. Each committee will procure the speaker for the evening. The committee on School Feeding is planning to show a "Movie" of the Luncheon System of the Philadelphia Public Schools, both high and elementary. So, throughout the year each committee will have interesting "attractions."

The Connecticut Home Economics Association held its annual meeting in New London, in May, with Miss Maud E. Hayes presiding.

Mr. H. S. Hitchcock gave an interesting address on the Vocational School, and Miss Elizabeth Sprague spoke in the interests of extension work in Home Economics.

After the meeting the members made a tour of inspection through the Vocational School and, later in the day, visited the Connecticut College for Women.

The fall meeting of the association will be held in Hartford.

During the coming year the association plans to make a survey of the teachers throughout the state, and what they are doing in Home Economics work.

Detroit Home Economics Association 1916-1917. Saturday, September 9, Boat Club Luncheon; Wednesday, October 18, Round Table, Scripps Library; Wednesday, November 15, Mme. Madeleine Bourdon, Library; Wednesday, December 6, Social,

Miss Grant's home; Saturday, January 20, Paulina Raven, Federation Building; Wednesday, February 21, Social, Miss Harvey's home; Wednesday, March 21, Annual meeting, Scripps Library; Wednesday, April 18, to be announced; Wednesday, May 16, Geo. Austin, "Weights and Measures;" June, Annual picnic.

The Homemakers' Club of Quebec. The recent convention of delegates from the Homemakers' Club of Quebec at Macdonald College deserves more than passing mention. When forty intelligent women from the rural communities, imbued with a common spirit, come together to discuss measures for the improvement of conditions affecting the welfare of their homes, their schools, and their country, something valuable is sure to come out of the deliberations.

The progress of the Homemakers' Clubs in this province under the direction of Miss Campbell has been steady, and the results accompished have been very satisfactory. Since the outbreak of the war, however, the direction of their efforts has been to some extent changed, much attention being given to Red Cross and other patriotic forms of work. Nevertheless, time has been found to deal with many matters of public interest, such as the improvement of the school house and school grounds where the children spend most of their time between the ages of six and fourteen.

It is encouraging to note the organization of the rural women at this time, for undoubtedly after the war their services will be required in many matters of reconstruction. The motto of the Clubs, "For Home and Country," is significant of the scope of their efforts, and the reports read at the Convention brought out clearly the many good works that have been done by the women during the past year.-Jour. Agr. and Hort.

Dietitians for Red Cross Work. Miss Jane Delano, Chairman of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing service in Washington, has recently appointed Miss Emma H. Gunther of Teachers Col

lege, Columbia University, Chairman of a special committee to pass upon the selection of dietitians for hospital units in Red Cross work. The other members of the committee are Miss Isabel E. Lord, Pratt Institute; Miss Annie George, Dietitian, Mount Sinai Hospital, N. Y.; Miss Annie Goodrich, Nursing and Health Department, Teachers College.

A special application for enrollment blank is sent on request to any dietitian, who requests a statement regarding her training, any experience as dietitian she has had, and also any other preparation she has had which she feels fits her for this special kind of work. Later, if the committee has passed favorably upon the applicant, physical examination blanks together with immunity blanks are sent to be filled out.

These dietitians, if appointed as members of hospital units, shall be counted as one of the 50 nurses, and will receive the same salary as that allowed nurses-$50 a month. Their duties include the preparation of special diets. Great importance is attached to this position of dietitian, and she should be one well-fitted to meet the many and varied responsibilities that she is likely to have to assume.

Mrs. Lizzie Merrill Palmer, the widow of Senator Palmer of Michigan, has bequeathed the residue of her estate amounting to approximately $1,000,000 "for the founding, endowing, and maintenance in the city of Detroit or the township of Greenfield, of a school to be known as the Merrill Palmer Motherhood and Home Training School, at which, under such plan and system and under such rules and regulations as shall, in the judgment and wisdom of those upon whom the administration of this estate shall devolve, be adopted, girls and young women of the age of 10 years and upwards shall be developed, educated, trained, and disciplined with special reference to training them mentally, morally, physically, and religiously for the discharge of the function of wifehood and motherhood and the management, supervision, and inspiration of the home."