At Menomonie, Wis., Mr. L. D. Harvey, lately president of the National Education Association, has established a Homemakers’ School. It does not turn out teachers. Its course of instruction is solely for the prospective housewife.
If we look at the number of things the prospective housewife is to be we shall soon perceive that she cannot be any one of them in any specialized technical way and that what she is getting is not so much a training for a trade as a training for life at large.
The first grand division of study is The House.
MARY D. CHAMBERS, HOME ECONOMICS, ROCKFORD COLLEGE.
Photograph by Devenier.
MR. L. D. HARVEY, HOMEMAKERS’ SCHOOL, MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN.
Photograph by Stein, Milwaukee.
We here observe that the housewife is going to be something of a sanitary engineer, since she studies chemistry, physics, and bacteriology in their “application to such subjects as the heating, lighting, ventilation, and plumbing of 105 a house.” It is thought that knowledge of this sort “will go a long way toward improving the health conditions of the country.”