688 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



In every one of these, the home element is the main idea. Thus 

 the Northwestern University Settlement reports, " The character of 

 the work has been to exalt the home and increase the pleasures of 

 the home makers." The ]^ew York Settlement reports in connec- 

 tion with its kindergarten work, " The second year of the kinder- 

 garten work has made us realize more deeply than ever how natural 

 and vital is this way of reaching the homes and the confidences of our 

 neighbors." The Mothers' Club of the Boston Settlement has had 

 instruction concerning the sanitary conditions of the neighboring 

 homes, while Dr. Mary Hobart talked to it of proper food for babies, 

 and Mrs. Alice P. ISTorton has directed the mothers in cutting and 

 making various garments. 



The work of college women for the settlements, and through 

 them for better home making, is not confined to settlement residents, 

 as large financial aid has been given all the college settlements by 

 the undergraduates and alumnae of the twelve or more important col- 

 leges for women in the East. 



The undergraduates of Smith, Swarthmore, the Woman's Col- 

 lege of Baltimore, and Bryn Mawr have assisted the residents of the 

 Philadelphia Settlement in many ways; while Barnard, Elmira, and 

 Packer students consider the New York Settlement as their care, and 

 Wellesley and Radcliffe girls are very helpful at the Boston Settle- 

 ment. 



That the value of a knowledge and practical application of the 

 principles of domestic science as a great factor in the leavening of the 

 community about them is never lost sight of is shown in the estab- 

 lishment by the Philadelphia Settlement of a kitchen and coffee 

 house in the fall of 1895 at the southwest corner of Seventh 

 and Lombard Streets. This was started upon much the same 

 lines as the New England Kitchen, and with the same primary 

 objects — " to furnish to our neighborhood, through the kitchen, 

 nutritious food, properly cooked, at the lowest price consistent with 

 a narrow margin of profit, and to offer, through the coffee house, 

 a clean, cheerful place, free from all objectionable features, where 

 a comfortable lunch or meal might be had at reasonable rates." 

 The expectations in regard to the success of this project have 

 been fully realized, it having been found, as in the case of the New 

 England kitchens in Boston and New York, that " where food 

 can be as easily obtained as drink, many a man will take the food in 

 preference." The number of penny lunches sold during the first 

 year was 21,332, and the number of meals served during June alone 

 was 2,928. 



In the Boston Settlement domestic science is used as a means to its 

 ends in the support of mothers' clubs, a kitchen garden for girls 



