A COLLEGE EXPERIMENT IN HOUSEKEEPING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 11

A COLLEGE EXPERIMENT IN HOUSEKEEPING.

A unique esperiment ia to be tried at the k University -of Illinois. The. department of : social science -! has '■ rented • a' large dwellinghouso near the; campus, and 'it,- into' two ' equal apartments. One is fitted'up , a.ccording- to'' the ; most, improved theories 'of household economics. The other is furnished in..",ihe 'good .our'grandmothers.',-: How : far it is possible . for a person'-, with limited-means to';'adopt the first instead;of ■the 'second .' scheirio Vof'.housekeeping 'is the problem to be solved by -experiments to last;one year;,;. ----- - . In one apartment only ;the ..most', modern furnishings , have been installed., ; Heating, : /cooking,: and'.laundry "work are done. .by. '.gas and electricity.; : the,'floors, are varnished or. waxed, and.-; covered; . with 'rugs. In tho other aparfiment coal, wood, - and cOke .-are used to. heat'the rooms, well a 3. for cobfc ing. .;;Oil .lamps. are used for light, tho water is drawn from a , pump, and carpets are taoked to ,'the'soft'pine floors. -V--^ Classes in household science have charge > of:each-of;tho'apartments,' under,the supervision. of- .the; professors;' - A;careful ;accoun't : is' to .be .kept of .the 1 expenses, the convenience ' and the time consumed in the preparation'pf foods and the discharge of all they other, domestic duties.' 'This is the first opportunity that college-women- will have had to see the two methods tested'side by side.,/