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and the public, prove the painstaking thoroughness with which these 

 women applied this branch of the domestic science to their great task. 



College women are working along the lines of the new science in 

 organizations not distinctively their own, such as the Boston Woman's 

 Educational and Industrial Union, which depends upon them for the 

 strength and inspiration to make its work effective, A college woman 

 is upon its board of directors, a graduate of Wellesley has made the 

 investigations in shops and factories regarding the relation of domestic 

 service to work in those places, a Radclilfe student represents its 

 Domestic Reform League in the Domestic Bureau, while its School 

 of Housekeeping has lectures from Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, of Vassar 

 College, Mrs. Alice P. JSTorton, and Prof. Katherine Coman, of 

 Wellesley College. 



So naturally and forcefully do the problems of the house and 

 home appeal to college women, first because they are women, and 

 secondly because their training makes them ready to attack problems 

 in a scientific way, that one of them, Miss Lucy M. Salmon, an M. A. 

 from Michigan University, lent the particular trend of her mind as 

 professor of history in Vassar College to the historical side of the 

 subject. The painstaking labor given is shown in that the basis of 

 her book was the information obtained through answers to five thou- 

 sand blanks sent out by her during 1889 and 1890. Her valuable 

 volume, Domestic Service, was finally published in the spring of 

 1897. 



Her hope that " the tabulation and presentation of the facts will 

 afford a broader basis for a general discussion than has been possible 

 without them; that a knowledge of the conditions of domestic serv- 

 ice beyond their own localities and households will enable some 

 housekeepers in time to decide more easily the economic questions 

 arising within every home; that it will do a little something to stimu- 

 late discussion of the subject on other bases than the purely personal 

 one," has been promptly realized in one distinguished instance at 

 least, since the Boston branch of the Association of Collegiate 

 Alumnse has been making this year a scientific study of the subject 

 of domestic service, with her book as the basis for preliminary work, 

 recommending it as " the most careful scientific investigation of the 

 subject up to date." 



The American Kitchen Magazine shows how college women are 

 giving of their best to put before the public scientific and practical 

 knowledge upon all matters pertaining to the home. Home is the 

 magnet to which their thoughts and efforts are continually drawn. 

 Frequent contributors to this publication are Mrs. Mary Roberts 

 Smith, Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, Miss Lucy C. Andrews, Dr. Mary E. 

 Greene, president of the National Household Economic Associa- 



