The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-07-15
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capita. Breakfasts and supprrs usually cost less
than the dinners, the average for the three meals
per day being u cents.
Having 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 sclf-hclp plan not only
cuts down expenses hut gives the young women
such 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 he
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, ana.
II is expected willing, to do anything and solve
any problem that is likely to confront II woman in
the home.
The president led the way to n window from
which was visible II fine rolling stretch of farm
land part of which ready for the planter. This
is the college farm. consisting of 80 acres. Next
fall the students will be fed from the product of
that farm Some of 1t, of course, will be fed TO
the cows. but they will produce milk for the col
lcge commons; some of ii will be fed to the pigs,
but they will be growing into meat all the Zine;
and some of it will 20 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 we'll theO-
retiCal farmers
All of the farm buildings are put up by the
students under the direction of the farm superin-
tendcnt. They recently completed Il poultry house
which is a model of its kind. huge barn and
silo are soon to be started. As Doctor Hudson
marked, those boys are likely to be much better
farmers than their fathers
Another unique feature ar Blackburn is that the
students know little of the cost of high living
ms they do of the high cost of living. The college
puts IA ban on smoking drinking, and the other
evils commonly found in the youth world. \ boy
must keep himself Clean If he belongs to the
Blackburn college community.
Two particularly Interesting students are for
eigncrS Il bright-cycd little Jap and Il curly-hared
Persian. The JAPANESE student came 10 America
~ get IN education, believing that a one needs to
do is just Ia 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 20 home to found it'll" school on the fun
damental principles of Christianity. \ friend in
japan had said that he would furnish the money
rs soon as the young man finished his education.
So he tried Il large state university. They were
very sorry, but they had many American boys.
and then he knew nothing about our language or
customs. They didn't how they could do any
thing for him. Then he went to a large endowed
university, and the story was the same. Finally
hc heard of Blackburn and went there. The pr"Si-
dent asked him what Lee could d0. and he said he
believed he could cook. 50 he put in the
kitchen and hr works there three hours Il day, as.
SiStng the young women.
The other boy came all the way from Persia
with the same exalted notion of opportunity in
America. He had received Il little training in 81
hospital. but he wanted 10 be real doctor and 20
HON" to his pcopl" aS medical missionary. lie
spent IT months looking fpr n college that h,
could afford. \ Persian doctor in Chicago directed
him Ia blackburn and he went right along and ha'
mad" tao record. II" is the head Of the sweep
iUy force.