Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-09-19

second comes the three large labor
atories for the domestic science eX-
perimenting, which will be the pride
of the college, The most novel is
that for cooking in large quanti-
ties" This will be equipped with
small model hotel apparatus, includ-
ing the hotel range, the steam boilers
and cookers, the steam serving table,
the dish-warming closets and dish
washing machines, said Mr.. Andrews
Each student will have several OPP
portunities in a term to purchase,
cook, and serve meals for at least
thirty persons, with occasional prac-
tice in dealing with much larger num-
bers. With the model hotel. kitchen
goes the demonstration dining room,
and next to this a special cooking
laboratory for compoundlng new
recipes.
This "large quantity apparatus" is
the chief point Of vantage which the
Columbia School of Domestic Econ
omics will have over its rivals, and
its particular use will be in develop
ing the study of Institutional Econ
omics.
1.-THE time is coming" explained
Mr.. Andrews, "when the matron of
every college dOrmitory will be re-
quired to have such training. The
universal complaint of all students
against the food served them is
bound to produce a change. More
than this, there are hundreds of po-
sitions in hospitals and other insti-
buttons open to women with this
training. The establishment of res
taurants in the public schools gives
another field right inside the school
system"
The third floor turns from science
to art, and there are placed the labor
atories for all the needed arts. The
studios for designing, on which great
stress is laid, are located on the north
side of the top floor, with dormer
windows in each room to supply the
desired lighting for art work.
Laboratories for chemical analysis
of food, and two for household
chemistry" occupy the fourth floor.
Here the girls will study the science
of nutrition, and also the value of
different cleansing substances, of
heating and lighting material On
the top floor is located the textile
laboratory, where elementary weav-
ing will be taught, not from the COM
mercial point of view as in the Phila-
delphia or Lowell School, but from
the consumers. The graduates will
know the wearing qualities Of various
materials, of the lasting powers Of
certain weaves, after chemical and
microscopic examination of different
materials.
"This is of real practical value"
the secretary said, for at least twelve
per cent. of family income goes for
the purchase of textiles, and an un-
trained buyer has no protection
against cloth authorizations, which are
as plenty as the much-discussed food
authorizations.
For all this thorough training
there is certainly a considerable out
lay. The expenses are naturally
heavy. Outside of laboratory fees,
the expenses for a study year Of thir-
ty-eight weeks are averaged at $3.50.
This does not include an out of town
students carfares to and fro, any pro-
vision for the Christmas and Easter
vacations, or for the girls wardrobe
or personal expenses. Laboratory
fees for the domestic science course
come to over $50, while the "extras"
for domestic art amount to SIT, not
counting two millinery courses,
where the students provide their own
materials, but all finished work is the
property of its maker.
While this seems to make the cost
for such training rather high, 1t was
explained that some students in the
domestic courses cut the expenses far
below this by practicing their culin-
airy art for themselves. Frequently a
group of three or four girls doing
this work take small apartment and
do their own cooking and caretaking,
thereby reducing the price of board
and lodging to from S. to SO week.
Many also are their own laundresses,
making another considerable saving.
AS this is only so much practice work
along the line of their future work,
this economy comes easier to them
than to the student in a strictly
classical course.