Legislation in New York State empowers local school authorities to establish manual training departments. The state normal school is required to include courses in the principles underlying manual training. The New York Kindergarten Association is formal. The Eliot School, Jamaica Plain, Mass, offers instruction in woodwork to public school pupils. The New England Kitchen is started in order to apply scientific principles to the cooking of the cheaper food materials.
Manual training is ordered in all primary schools of Boston.
A course in saniitation and dietetics is introduced into Wellesley College under Miss Marion Talbot. 1891 Drexel Institute is founded. The City Council of Boston makes an appropriation for the Mechanics Arts High School. A cooking and sewing school for children, selected from the public schools, is established in Baltimore, Md., by members of the Society of Friends. The New England Kitchen, Boston, forms classes under Miss Maria Daniell for study of economics and sanitary cooking.