Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16

port will be made by Miss Winifred
Forbes of Pennsylvania State College,
the holder of an association fellowship,
on the determination Of acceptable
standards for the weighing of silk
goods, and a session of furnishing,
equipment and care of the house, at
which Walter S. Siple of Harvard
University, will speak on Modernism
| in the Average American Home" and
such specific problems as house clean
ing and mechanical aids will be dis
cuSsed by experts. At this session also
a report on research work connected
with sleep will be made by H M. john
son of the Mellon Institute. The con-
sumer's relations to the problems OF the
manufacturers and dealers Of household
commodities will be the general topic
of the public meeting on Tuesday eve
| ming, July 2, as has been stated.
Practical, everyday problems Of the
homemaker will be taken up in forum
discussions and addresses will be made
by experts In the professional depart
ment meetings, scheduled for July 8.
Donald A. Laird of Colgate University,
will talk on 1.-The Psychology of Noise
In Home Planning" before the Home
makers Department, which will also
hear Miss Hildegarde Kneeland OF the
United States Bureau of Home Eco
Monies talk on us the Housewife a
Lady of Leisure?" Under the direction
of Miss Mary Sweeny of the Merrill
Palmer School, Detroit. the department
of child development and parental edu-
cation will discuss the development OF
nursery schools. pre-school education
in the home and teaching of child care
in public schools and colleges. A
special four-year study In training for
child care is being carried on by the
association and has the cooperation
of 80 colleges now having nursery
schools where home economics students
receive training in child care.
Several of the group programs center
on work in nutrition and textiles, which
has been stressed in the recent asso-
citation program. Progress in dental
s. Howe of the Forsyth Dental In
Urinary for Children. DIR. Ruth Wheeler
OF Vassar College will report the re-
suit of special study on THE Rela-
ton of Physical Measurements of Col
lege Students to the State of Their
Nutrition" Miss Ruth O'Brien, textile
expert of the United States Bureau Of
Home Economics, will speak on New
Developments in Designing Children's
Clothing" and Miss Susan Bates of the
Cotton Textile Institute will deliver q
and Technique in Women's Dress"
Other experts who will speak at Ses-
sions Of the convention are DR.. Louis
Stanley, chief OF the United States Blu
reau of Home Economics: Miss Hazel
Munsell, nutrition expert of the bureau;
Miss Flora Rose, New York State Col
lege of Home Economics, Cornell Uni
versity, and Warren Emily of the United
States Bureau Of Standards.
A number Of educational trips and
social events In and around Boston have
been arranged for the delegates supple
menting the business sessions at the
Statler Hotel. Delegates will be taken
on tours of the various centers of home
economics research and social work in
Boston, including the Home Informa-
ton Center, the Women's Educational
and Industrial Union, the MaSSachu-
sets Institute of Technology, the Car
negie Nutrition Laboratory, the Boston
Dispensary Food Clinic and the South
Boston Health Unit. Mrs. Gladys Beck
EFT Jones, chairman of local arrange
ments, has also announced a number
OF teas arranged In honor Of the dele
gates to be given by the Garland School
OF Homemaking, the Priscilla Proving
Plant, the American Homemakers, the
Edison Electric Co., the New England
Telephone d Telegraph Co. and Sim
mons College.
During the Summer lull and while the
thoughts OF every one, including the
clubwomen of the Nation, turn to the
out-of-doors, with dreams of the restful
atmosphere Of some rural retreat