The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-11-19
~ HOME ECONOMICS
NEEDS new BUILDING
Courses For Women at the
State University Inadequate.
Iy Provided For.

mics at the University keeps Its ear
close to the ground in an effort to
learn the needs of its young women.
that it may better fulfil the function
for which Ii exists. 1t desires above
all else that each girl who enters the
University may get the fundamentals
of home making. The first work that
was given in the department was pri-
mariiy to train teachers OF Home
Economics. Next the students with a
strong inclination toward science and
with abilities as an Institutional work
er, or Dietician, or tea room manager.
or a school teacher, room manager,
were cared for. Later consideration
was given to answering the needs of
students of another type, the young
woman who wished to take back the
fulness of her college experience to
her home, sharing in the household
burdens with her mother. or who look
ed forward to establishing new
home. Work is now given for this
type of student The University now
offers work for every class Of women
who enter its doors. The latest course
offered in Home Economics Is known
as the General course. This extends
through the year and gives In its
scope the fundamentals of the thirty
different courses that the University
offers in this department. 1t gives
the elements of the selection of food
and some instructions in cooking. The
most important points as the feeding
OF the individual and the family are
taught here. Home nursing, the diet
for the sick, the best housekeeping
methods and ways to furnish the home
in accord with art and economy are
considered. Serving is taught during
the last half of the course. And
throughout the course, careful consid-
GRAFTON is given to study Of income
and its proportioning OF expenditures.
The University feels 1t is not true
to its responsibilities unless 1t gives
every woman the opportunity for at
least this minimum amount Of training
for the home To make the work fit
the limited time of these students, 1t
has been stripped Of everything except
absolute essentials. The year or two
Of chemistry required for the work in
other courses of the department is
here set aside This course planned
directly for the home maker and for
the teacher, professional or business
woman, is of inestimable value in the
help 1t gives to the young woman who
will have charge OF her home.
Do the people of the state know that
the University Of Washington has the
largest Home Economics department
on the Pacific Coast with the exeep-
ton OF Oregon Agricultural College
and the State Normal at Santa Bar.
bara? States pride will not permit
the poor housing to continue when
they are made aware Of the facts and
are informed concerning conditions.
But this is year of retrenchment
and a stronger factor than state pride
must be present to warrant expendi-
ture.
1t is when there is greatest need for
economiMng that there is greatest
need to foster home economics train
ing. Intelligent expenditure OF the
kuSOnC 10 thC Anoot OAiOSNlNS way "
ease economic pressure. This is the
purpose OF Home Economics. Every
woman who enters college should have
chance to get help. Washington
cannot retrench SO successfully in any
other way as by providing adequate
facilities for training its women to
Judge values in expenditures and to
avoid waste.
There are 100 women at the Uni
ysrsity; over one-fourth OF them are
taking all the home economic work
they can get. Many more take two.
three or four courses. 1t takes an ar
dent spirit to choose to face conditions
that prevail in the home economic
buildings at the University.
The state must furnish a building
that has ample facilities for carrying
out this great work. Our women must
be lead to shoulder their share Of the
worlds work. They will do ii IL they
are made aware of what is involved.
The Home Economics buildings, as
well as being among the poorest struc-
lures used for educational purposes In
Washington today, whether grade,
high school. or college. is now wholly
Inadequate The one lecture room and
the laboratories are taxed to the limit
While the chemistry building was
being erected in 1909 two shacks we're
put up hastily, without excavating and
on board foundation. 1t was expected
that they would be RACED at an early
date 50 the material used in construc-
ton was of the cheapest.
Next summer the American Home
Economics Association. a national or
ganization composed OF some of the
most prominent college and high
school teachers in the country is COM
ing to the University OF Washington
for its annual convention. California
tried hard to get this meeting and al
most succeeded.
Have the people OF Washington not
too much pride in their educational
instruction of higher education to let
these people see that they have not
provided shelter for the 1900 young
women at their University?
Three years ago the class rolls in
Home Economics aggregated 81. To-
day the number is 430. A comparison
of the Home Economics buildings and
most high school buildings in the state
shows two extremes. No state has
finer high school buildings; no state
has poorer facilities for housing Home
Economics.