The Cornell Reading Courses 



pellinp; reasons why persons having membership for the week are unable 

 to attend some of the meetings, a sul)stitute may be sent on such occasions. 

 The membership fee of seventy-five cents is nominal. Its object 

 is to guarantee local interest and at the same time to defray a part 

 of the traveling expenses of the speakers. The State pays the salary 

 of the instructor and furnishes all the cooking supplies for demonstra- 

 tions and such equipment and illustrative material as are easily trans- 

 ported. The local committee supplies a place of meeting, arranges for 



Fig. 58. — A demonstration in foods and cookery 



adequate janitor service, and, for a school in foods and cookery, furnishes 

 the following pieces of equipment, which are difficult to ship: one long 

 table for literature; two side tables; two tables for demonstrating, size 

 and shape of kitchen tables; two small, deep dishpans; one teakettle; 

 one waste-paper basket; one small, covered stone crock, for garbage; 

 one three-burner kerosene or alcohol stove, trimmed and filled; kerosene 

 or alcohol for refilling; one portable oven, preferably with a glass door; 

 some provision for keeping food overnight — window box, cold closet, 

 or refrigerator. If there is no sink in the part of the hall used by the 

 lecturer, the following are needed: two zinc or enameled water pails; 

 one dipper. 



It is a great accommodation to the lecturer if she is provided with a 

 local assistant who helps for perhaps half an hour both before and after 

 the meeting, as well as during the demonstration, if necessary. Member- 

 ship in the school is the compensation for such assistance. 



Board may be secured for the instructor in a home or at a hotel. 



Experience with extension schools in home making has shown that no 

 one makes a keener or more interested student than does the woman who 



