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be of the best quality, prepared in tbe best manner, and at tbe same 

 time furnisb the known scientific requirements of proper nutrition. 

 To this end an analysis was made of every article of food proposed, 

 and a careful record kept of the number of pounds purchased, its 

 price, and chemical value in proteids, or the nitrogen and tissue 

 furnishing properties; the fats needed for fatty tissues and fuel ; and 

 the carbohydrates serving principally as fuel, but all three furnishing 

 energy in the form of heat and capacity for work estimated carefully 

 as so many calories. 



Every day's menu was planned with direct reference to supplying 

 the chemical requirements in their proper proportions, at the same 

 time meeting the other stated requirements. 



The results have been most satisfactory in that the family were 

 well fed, and that nearly all gained in weight and in general physical 

 condition while expressing great interest and approval of the experi- 

 ment. Financially the experiment was also most satisfactory, show- 

 ing how the price fixed for board, three dollars and a haK, is propor- 

 tioned among the different items entering into its cost. The tables 

 prepared during the long and careful scientific investigation concern- 

 ing this dietary are also a most valuable contribution as a basis for 

 further experiment, both public and private. 



The most of this work has been and is now continuing under the 

 direction of Dean Marion Talbot. 



The other dean of the woman's department of Chicago Univer- 

 sity, Alice Freeman Palmer, a graduate of Michigan University, and 

 later the honored president of Wellesley College, afterward, as one 

 of its trustees, was chiefly instrumental in having the new science 

 introduced there. Later she has been lending her strength to this 

 subject as a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education ; 

 as president of the Woman's Education Association of Boston, which 

 last year had an important exhibit of domestic art and science, and 

 which now has a strong committee on domestic science; as a member 

 of the committee on domestic service investigation of the Boston 

 branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnse; in introducing 

 something of this work into the vacation schools in Cambridge. She 

 is also identified with the movement in Boston to introduce domestic 

 science into public and private schools and colleges, and which last 

 fall established a school of domestic service to attack the problem 

 in another way. That band of twelve college women who organized 

 the Sanitary Science Club in November, 1883, builded better than 

 they knew. 



While some of our college women have given so much thought 

 and effort to secure nutritious and attractive diet for those under 

 their charge, who in turn will go out and preach this new gospel of 



