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More and more the public is feeling the need of applying scientific 

 methods in places where numbers are being housed and fed. Perhaps 

 this is, next after teaching-, the best opening for graduates in home 

 economics. It is a field that should not be entered without thorough 

 consideration, for already the inrush of the over-confident and inefficient 

 has been detrimental. Only a woman of force and executive ability, one 

 who is clear-sighted and self -controlled and who has some understanding 

 of human nature, should attempt specialization in this line of work. For 



Fig. 57. — Serving table in cafeteria of Home Economics Building 



such a woman the promise of a successful future is greater than that afforded 

 by teaching. 



3. Business enterprise. — Business enterprise in which home economics 

 is practically applied has already been sufficiently developed to show 

 that it has varied, original, and undoubtedly promising possibilities. Tea- 

 rooms, lunch-rooms, cafeterias, small hotels, and inns have been opened 

 and successfully managed by women. The woman untrained in home 

 economics has sometimes been successful, but training, in this as in every 

 other business, is a more direct road to success. 



The baking industry offers twofold opportunities: first, as a possible 

 commercial enterprise; second, as a laboratory for the scientific worker. 



