THE SCIENTIFIC STATES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3165, 16 April 1909, Page 4

THE SCIENTIFIC STATES.

in reference to Mr Studhblme's ambition to see a Chair of Domestic Science established at Canterbury College, we may remark that American precedents would place t he scene of action rather at the Agricultural College, Farming and housewifery seem most closely associated in the American mind. At the Winsconsin University, for instance, we are told, "The farmer is urged to bring his wife and daughters with him to study in the Home Economics Department, while he attends instruction in the School of Agriculture." It is not stated who in the meantime will look after the farm live stock, while whole families respond to this scientific call! Ohio, too, has a "College of Agriculture and Domestic Science," where a young woman may achieve what somewhat contradictory degree of "Bacbe'or," entitling her to special respect as a passed houswife. In Ohio domestic affairs are taken very seriously. Ihe student is not only taught to cook, but also attends lectures on "Food Economics," and does research work with typical foods of certain classes. She even makes "a study of the evolution of society as affected by food conditions"—and no doubt can foretell prescisely what will happen to a nation which persists in eating "pie." Though here her conclusions might be disputed in the "Domestic Art" section, which treats "the effect on social conditions," is caused by haphazard or artistic furnishing. The debating '

club at this College must have lively times over the question "whether well cooked food or the right chairs and tables most conducted to America's independence" At another university there is established a specially magnificent "laboratory" for the cooking classes, but the prospectus seems more truthful' than kind about the results when it remarks, "Adjoining is the diningroom, - in which dietary experiments are made."