of agriculture. The report for 1913, a pamphlet of 130 pages, which includes the following addresses and papers, will indicate the scope of the week's meetings:

The problem of the daughter; The feeding of children; The child and the law in Missouri; The boy in the family; Games and dances for children; Problem of the boy in the country; Babies' health contest (with exhibits of clothing, meals, toys, books); Girls' tomato canning club; Hot lunches in rural schools; Short course in home economics; Drafting patterns; Art and handwork in rural schools; School sanitation; Commercial gardening; A garden serving the home table a whole year; Fruit and flowers for profit; Poultry; Farm home management; Salt-raising bread; and Organization of homemakers' clubs.

The Missouri Homemakers' Conference has been influential in introducing tomato-canning clubs and in securing the appointment of a woman institute lecturer for the farmers' institutes held throughout the State under the State board of agriculture, who will organize county homemakers' conferences and local homemaking clubs. Some local clubs have indeed already been formed.

List of housekeepers' conferences.-The following table presents the facts as to these conferences, including also the shorter "schools," in some 29 colleges and universities. Several of them, it is noteworthy, are colleges on private foundations.

TABLE 4.-Housekeepers' conferences, by colleges.

SHORT-TERM SCHOOLS OF HOUSEKEEPING.

Another type of popular home-economics teaching for nonmatriculated students is the "short course," or the "short winter course" as it is sometimes called, in agricultural colleges because of its relation to courses offered at that season when farmers may read

ily attend. It is distinguished from the "housekeepers' conference," "housewives' week," and "week course," in that the time of instruction is longer and the emphasis is upon consecutive lessons in laboratory and classroom in a regular curriculum so arranged as to require full-time study from those attending through a definite period of time. It is thus a complete school meeting at the college, though for a limited period. Its methods are study and instruction, rather than address and inspiration as in the shorter conference. In 23 colleges the length of the short school varies from 2 to 32 weeks, and the median length of the course is 12 weeks. Several institutions offer instruction extending more than one season, and students are urged to return. This plan deserves emphasis; it offers a motive to continued study; it increases the worth of some of the work, e. g., in principles of nutrition, where 12 weeks of study provide only a beginning.

The aim of the short course at the University of Missouri, instituted in 1912, and seven weeks in length, has been stated by Miss Stanley, director of the department of home economics, to be that of

supplying a type of training similar to that furnished young men in the short course in agriculture. With this end in view, we have selected from our regular course those subjects which bear most directly on home life and have adapted them to the needs of the short-course student. These have been supplemented by courses in agriculture in which the women might be interested, such as dairying, poultry raising, and home gardening.

Kansas State College opens a two-term housekeepers' course to provide special training in home making. Young women between 18 and 21 are admitted upon presentation of the common-school or high-school diploma, or upon passing examination in the usual school subjects. Young women over 21 are admitted without examination. The following subjects are included in the housekeepers' course: Cookery, 10 hours in first term and 12 hours in second term; sewing, 10 hours; dressmaking, 8 hours; color and design, 6 hours; home nursing, 2 hours; floriculture, 3 hours.

Cornell University, in its department of home economics, offers a curriculum of study for three months beginning in December, the แ winter course. There are no entrance examinations; the course is open to persons 18 years of age. "There is no limit of age above 18, and the course has been attended both by young women and by some older women. Many of the latter, mature in experience, have brought much inspiration and help to the department." The required subjects in the winter course are:

Foods.-Food composition, food values, methods of selection, preparation, principles of nutrition, dietetics, care and feeding of children. Laboratory work is given for the application of principles and includes practice in the preparation of food and in serving.

Household sanitation.-Sanitary condition of the house and site; conditions promoting health; proper care of the sick; and the relation of bacteriology to the household.

Household management.-The family income; the cost of living; household accounts; problems of domestic service; methods of housekeeping; equipment; marketing.

Sewing and drafting.-Laboratory work, instruction in sewing, and in cutting and fitting garments.

Art in the home.-This course considers the development of more artistic home surroundings; the building, site, garden; the furnishing and decoration of the house; the selection of books and pictures.

Persons registered in the winter course in home economics have opportunity to enter the courses in dairying, poultry husbandry, gardening, and extension work. As opportunity is offered, shortterm technical courses of special interest to farm women will be added, such as canning and preserving, laundry management, dressmaking, millinery. It is hoped that, as these short technical courses are developed, many farm girls may find through them opportunity to engage in profitable enterprises without the necessity of leaving the farm. In short, the department hopes to aid in standardizing activities in which women are interested.

Twelve scholarships for the winter-course students are provided by the New York State Grange, each $50 in cash, to be awarded to men and women who obtain the highest standard on competitive examination.

List of short courses.-A list of the institutions giving short-term instruction, nearly all of them State colleges and universities, is contained in Table 5. The list would be lengthened if there were included institutions giving practical classes in household arts which are not, however, organized as a school curriculum.

TABLE 5.-College short-term schools of housekeeping.

HOME EDUCATION DEMONSTRATION TRAINS.

Twenty-seven colleges report the use of railroad cars in extension teaching; in 17 of these colleges the home-economics department participates in the use of these demonstration cars, and 4 of the remaining 10 have done so occasionally. The home-economics departments in the following institutions have regularly used railroad demonstration cars: Colorado Agricultural College, Florida State College for Women, University of Idaho, Earlham College (Earlham, Ind.), Iowa State College, State University of Kentucky, Michigan Agricultural College, University of Minnesota, Montana State College, State College of New Mexico, Cornell University, Agricultural College of North Dakota, Oklahoma Agricultural College, University of Tennessee, University of Texas, State College of Washington. The character of these traveling exhibits is indicated by that of the Colorado Agricultural College.

The Colorado Agricultural College in February, 1914, operated "the Colorado dairy, silo, and forage crop demonstration train" over the Santa Fe lines in Colorado in cooperation with the colonization department of that road, a train of six cars and coaches, two of which offered provision for home economics.

One vestibuled coach was reserved for lecture work, and cooking demonstrations on "Variety in the preparation of cured meats and dairy products" were given by an instructor from the department of home economics, assisted by a senior student. Preliminary to the cooking of cured meats a talk on "Practical methods for curing meats on the farm" was given by a member of the animal husbandry department.

One end-door baggage car was reserved for college exhibits, these exhibits representing the departments of home economics, animal husbandry, agronomy, and veterinary science. The space allowed for home-economics exhibits-45 feet-was in the main occupied by exhibit cases, each 48 inches long by 30 inches wide by 6 deep, and so mounted that the center of the case was on a level with the eye. The cases were stained brown, backed with brown arras cloth, and closed with glass doors, and gave an attractive setting, despite the dust and smoke.

The purpose of the exhibit, expressed in the sign making announcement of "Suggestions for home improvement," dealt in the main with improvement in house equipment, and the average Colorado ranch home was the standard in mind. There should have been included as primary essentials consideration of water supply, waste disposal, lighting and heating plants, and the ice plant; but the expense of models was prohibitive, and for these topics suggestions were confined to a bulletin-board announcement of descriptive literature on the subjects named.

In large part the exhibit took the form of models made to a scale. Each grouping of models and illustrative material was made as graphic as possible, and in the main self-explanatory, so that the exhibit case might with brief announcement tell its own story. Overcrowding was avoided. Placards placed over the cases made simple, yet, in some instances, striking announcement. These placards were uniform in size and style, showing a clear-cut, heavy-face gothic letter in black on white board.

Following is a brief statement of the detail of the exhibit given as to case content:

1. Wall finishes and wall coverings.-Models suggesting color harmony in walls, ceiling, and woodwork, arranged in sets suggesting combinations suitable for living room, bedroom, and kitchen; nine models.

2. Floor finishes and floor coverings.-Nine models.

3. Ventilating devices and the metal weather strip.-Four models. Placard gives three especially important fresh-air facts.

4. You spend one-third of your life in bed. Have that bed right.-Sets forth in miniature the parts that go to make a well-equipped bed.

5. Desirable and possible equipment for cleaning.-Included in this collection are three models showing desirable types of work aprons.

6. Laundry hints.-The most attractive of the articles included in this case is a miniature laundry board cover of desirable type.

7. Miscellaneous worth-whiles.-Uncommon yet excellent devices and conveniences for the kitchen work table.

8. The housewife's tool chest.—A placard within the case reads, "Keep these in the house. Let the old man buy his own." The uncouthness of expression has been criticized, yet the sign forcibly calls attention to a need, and the use of the sign will be continued.

The two remaining cases show house dresses for the housewife and garments for the small child that are at once attractive, easily constructed, and inexpensive.

A set of open shelves, fully equipped, has its contents brought to the attention by the placard

THE PANTRY SHELF

AS IT OFTEN IS. AS IT MAY BE.

Models made to a scale show "The ventilated and rat-proof cellar," "A homemade ice box," the ironing board that “stands pat," and a hinged table. The Housewife's Ten-Dollar Library occupies a bookshelf. Printed lists giving titles, authors, publishers, and cost are available for free distribution. A bulletin board announces "Things worth knowing about," and in illustration are shown bulletins that are available for distribution.

Mail boxes bearing the placard "Write for further information" are distributed throughout the train. The contents of these, together with later correspondence and verbal reports, indicate that the demonstration train is creating interest wherever it goes.

It should be added that the exhibit described above constituted a part of the larger one representing the college at the stock show in