Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-07-13

capita. Breakfasts and suppers usually cost less
than the dinners, the average for the three meals
per day being 81 cents.
Having no help to pay or to feed, important
items in figuring up the cost Of serving food in
most colleges, has played an important part in this
economical. showing. The self-help plan not only
cuts down expenses, but gives the young women
such a practical course in domestic science-part
of the laboratory work is to prepare each week
four new dishes in sufficient quantities to feed all
the people in the dining hall-that they will be
benefited by it all their lives. They not only
study domestic science, but do all Of the work in
their own rooms, the laundry work, etc. and at
the end of four years they will come out able, and,
1t is expected willing, to do anything and solve
any problem that is likely to confront a woman in
the home.
The president led the way to a window from
which was visible a fine rolling stretch Of farm
land, part of which was ready for the planter. This
is the college farm, consisting of so acres. Next
fall the students will be fed from the product of
that farm. Some of it, of course, will be fed to
the cows, but they will produce milk for the col
lege commons some of it will be fed to the pigs,
but they will be growing into meat all the time;
and some of it will go directly to the kitchen. In
this way the young men supplement the work of
the young women. They produce what is cooked,
and are learning to be practical as well as theo-
retical farmers.
All of the farm buildings are put up by the
students under the direction of the farm superin-
tendent. They recently completed a poultry house
which is a model of its kind. A huge barn and
siIo are soon to be started. As Doctor Hudson re-
marked, those boys are likely to be. much better
farmers than their fathers.
Another unique feature at Blackburn is that the
students know as little of the cost of high living
as they do Of the high cost Of living. The college
puts a ban on smoking, drinking, and the other
evils commonly found in the youth world. A boy
must keep himself clean, if he belongs to the
Blackburn college community.
Two particularly interesting students are for
eigners, a bright-eyed little Jap and a curly-halred
Persian. The japanese student came to America
to get an education, believing that all one needs to
do is just to come here and after that everything
is free. But he was disappointed in his dreams.
He had planned to spend three years here and
then go home to found a little school on the fun
damental principles of Christianity. A friend In
Japan had said that he would furnish the money
as soon as the young man finished his education.
SO he tried a large state university. They were
very sorry, but they had so many American boys,
and then he knew nothing about our language or
customs. They didn't see how they could do any
thing for him, Then he went to a large endowed
university, and the story was the same. Finally
he heard of Blackburn and went there. The presl-
dent asked him what he could do, and he said he
believed he could cook. So he was put in the
kitchen and he works there three hours a day, as
sisting the young women.
The other boy came all the way from Persia,
with the same exalted notion of opportunity in
America. He had received a little training in a
hospital, but he wanted to be a real doctor and go
home to his people as a medical missionary. He
spent IA months looking for a college that he
could afford. A Persian doctor in Chicago directed
him to Blackburn and he went right along and has
made a fine record. He is the head of the sweep
ing force.
The students at Blackburn all work-three
hours n day. All pay the same and work the
same. It is a communism. They don't pay so
much per hour as most colleges do, but each stu