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The Institute of Teclinology luncli room is also supplied from 

 this place, making in all about sixteen hundred people who are daily 

 supplied with standard foods as defined by Mrs. Richards and Mrs. 

 Abel, while those who buy from the counter and eat at the lunch 

 room of the kitchen will easily make the number two thousand. 



Other kitchens have already been started upon the plan of the 

 New England Kitchen — Chicago, Philadelphia, and Xew York each 

 having similar ones. 



It is not too much to expect to see in a few years such kitchens 

 in every large city in our Union, all the outcome of the practical 

 application of the scientific training of two college women to the bet- 

 terment of, primarily, the physical condition of their fellow-crea- 

 tures, and, secondarily, their mental and moral condition. 



In October, 1890, while yet busy with the development of scien- 

 "tific principles in connection with the New England Kitchen, Mrs. 

 Richards wrote a forceful paper urging upon college women the 

 study of domestic science. In this paper, which was published for 

 the Association of Collegiate AlumnaB, she says : " What is our educa- 

 tion worth to us if we can not order our houses in peace and comfort? 

 You say, ' Modern life makes so many demands upon us.' True; but 

 no demand can supersede that of home. . . . Let each young col- 

 lege graduate begin her housekeeping in a simple way, feeling keenly 

 that all her future happiness and the welfare of her family depend 

 on the thoroughness with which she masters at the very beginning 

 the essentials of a home. 



" But not only in her own home is there a call for this knowledge 

 of the fundamental principles of healthful living and domestic econ- 

 omy. In all work for the amelioration of the condition of man- 

 kind, philanthropic and practical, there must be a basis of knowledge 

 of the laws and forces which science has discovered and harnessed 

 for our use." 



In alluding to the New England Kitchen she says: "In this 

 experiment the training of the college woman showed. No mere 

 enthusiasm would have patiently waited, understanding that success 

 is reached only through failure and after a most careful study of 

 every detail, and is maintained only by constant vigilance." 



Urging the study of domestic science in colleges, she says : " First, 

 the subject should be put in the college curriculum on a par with the 

 other sciences, and as a summing up of all the science teaching of the 

 course, for chemistry, physics, physiology, biology, and especially 

 bacteriology, are all only the stepping-stones of sanitary science. 



" Therefore, in the junior or senior year, after the student has a 

 good groundwork of these sciences, there should be given a course of 

 at least two lectures a week, and four hours of practical work. 



