Arizona republican., 1910-05-02

has now fourteen well equipped kitch.
 ems in it's schools and more are added | every year. One school trustee in an
 other city after reading little pam phlet written by the director of cook | ing on The Mission of the Ideal Nom- | an wrote: Could all mothers be like ! the ideal woman we should need nc |, truant schools no defective classes ana no part time classes" ingenuously lay i ing the blame for truants and defect | ives but also for lack of space in the 1 schoolhouses on the bad cooking of the ] mothers.
 The extension work of various uni versailles in household science is sur Uprising. The University of Illinois sent its lecturers in this subject to sixty
 other institutions last year It holds
 an annual school for housekeepers two weeks in duration. and at the last ses- sion thirty-one counties of the state were represented among the pupils. In Wisconsin the state university gives courses of lectures and demon
 strations in cooking at farmers insti- tutues and holds a bakers institutes for professional bakers Housekeepers' conferences. with demonstration in the model kitchen of the university are held by the University of Missouri, and the model kitchen is so arranged that
 it can be transferred to any point where it's use is required.
 The Kansas State Agricultural col lege issues bulletins on breadmak king and other domestic subjects and holds lectures and demonstration courses in different parts of the state, sixteen of them last year. The Iowa State Agricultural college gives such courses at farmers institutes, women's clubc, county fairs, teachers institutes. schools and colleges. One member of the college faculty gave in seven re- cent months 226 such lectures outside the college.
 In Colorado the state agricultural college holds extension course S one week in length all over the state. for which fee of Sl is charged each pu- pil. The average number of women at tending such. courses is 200. At a ses- sion held in winter in a mining camp women walked to and from the class through the snow from points three miles distant.
 Colleges in Railroad Car.
 Cornell instituted the reading course for farmers wives, which has now H. 500 members; it has organized rural women's clubs for the study of do- mestic and cultural subjects, and holds an annual home makers conference during farmers week at the college, with exhibits of the -model kitchen. laundry equipment and labor saving devices of the home economics depart ment Of the university and lectures and demonstrations by members of the staff.
 Two southern states have developed the most ingenious syste mo- taking the gospel of good cookery to the peo- pie. The Maryland Agricultural col lege bought the second hand private car of railroad superintendent, con taning kitchen. hot water device and lockers for stores. It was fitted up with chairs, blackboards and stereopti- con. with an apparatus for making acetylene gas for the latter This car runs through the country to give lee lures on domestic science and agricul- ture. Miss Anna Barrows of Teach CTS college mas made lecture ulps on this car.
 The North Carolina department of agriculture runs two similar cars, which are furnished and hauled free of charge by one of the railroads of the state. These cars were used for thirty institutes last year. one of them being used for the agricultural lee. lures and the other for domestic sci ence work The superintendent re- ported that results were especially with the latter ear.