New-York tribune., 1901-10-16
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS.
SUBJECTS CONSIDERED BY NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION N BUFFALO-THE
INDUSTRIAL CENTURY.
LsT TELEGRAPH 70 THE rRIsurE.l


Bu-alo Oct B-This afternoon the National
Household Economic Association held its ninth
annual meeting IN the Woman's Educational and
Industrial Union. in Niagara Square. The attend
snce vas smaller than was anticipated. A brief
meeting was held in the morning when only routine
business OF the executive board was transacted and
the report of the Cooking School Teachers League
was read By Miss Mary Caldwell, OF this city.
Among the officers present were Mrs. Linda Hull
Lsrned, OF Syracuse national president: Mrs Mary
A. Moody, vtce-presidePt OF Indiana; Mrs. Ida B.
Alcott v1ce-president, OF Texas: Mrs. Mary Moody
Pugh vfce-president, ot Nebraska: Mrs. J. Alfred
Kimberly, Tce-presioent OF Wisconsin; Mrs.
Thomas 3. Reading. OF Buffalo. Erie County chair
nan. and Mrs. Charles De Garmo. OF Ithaca, State
director
This association is the outcome Of the woulen's 3
work at the Worlds Fair, and its aim IS TO advo-
cate scientific home making through the medium OF
women's clubs. In the West the association IS par
rcularly strong and the members as individuals
take greater interest than the women Of the East
DO in the associations affairs although it is con-
oeded that the best organization n the country
the New-York State association
The session this afternoon was opened with music.
and Mrs. George W. Townsend. president OF the
local womens union delivered the address Of vel
come Among other statements she said:
To exalt household labor TO encourage simplicity.
more general and simple hospitality. palmer dress,
the usefulness OF nutritious foods cheerfuiress and
kindly courtesy and 10 spread the thought that it is
not the house we live in but the life We live IN It
that is important All this IS worth while and this
sou do.
Mrs. AdeIbert Moot also spoke a few words OF
welcome. saying in part;
No one who reads the signs OF the times can fail
The evolution OF the coming decade is TO be
chiefly industrial Into Industrial century We
entering, and for this life must train our grow
ing men and women, more complicated lie
becomes the more crowded every avenue 70 indi-
ridpal family support the greater the necessity
for knowledge in al that insures the management
u our household on the best hygienlc and economic
basis There is pine the TACT We nave come
% state OF social evolution quite remarkable as
that political evolution which began IN the last
century, and nave reason TO grow uneasy over
conditions that include half million tramp6 ana a
hundred thousand millonaireS. ! should ike 70 see
the women's clubs Of this country form an indus
trial corporation and eeta blsh SCHOOLS OF domestic
training only in the large cities that are con-
Eeeo by foreign populations bt e4so II tne eflls-I
towns and villages. They would then become an
sducs1ive force n the higher lie Of the nation
Mrs Pugh, Of Nebraska delivered the response.
Then Mrs. Larned gave the presidents annual ad-
cress, and Mrs. J. A. Kimberly, OF Wisconsin, read
paper detailing the plans IN vogue IN Wisconsin
for the Advancement OF household economics.
Home Science IN the Granary OF America, was the
subject OF an address by Mrs Harriet ,. AacAuf-
pny, OF Nebraska
Al the evening session Professor W. o. Atwater,
Q; Wesleyan University. Middletown, conn., IN a
rnple and lucid manner set forth the facts con-
zined IN his paper on Food and Household Eco
aonlics." and Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, OF Cor
ne University, gave illustrated lecture on Lie
u tarmhouses."
Tomorrow afternoon the association will hold its
meeting IL the New-York State Building, at the eA-
vouaens board OF managers OF the Exposition IN
ne oTnen's Building.