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rious lessons have been mastered, the next step for girls is into the 

 cooking class, and if on account of the expense or for any other rea- 

 son the scientific teacher is not available, the courses may be given 

 by housekeepers. Very practical results were thus obtained by 

 one organization of women. A class of fourteen young girls gradu- 

 ated from a kitchen garden were given instruction for twenty 

 weeks on every Saturday morning; the lessons were divided into four 

 short courses; five each were given in the preparation of breakfast, 

 luncheon, dinner, and supper. Every fifth morning was devoted 

 to a practice lesson, when the little cooks prepared and served a 

 meal without assistance. 



While the number of kitchen gardens is increasing there are 

 yet many localities where the good seed has not taken root; no 

 better work in village or town could enlist the faithful service of 

 King's Daughters or of societies for Christian Endeavor. An inex- 

 pensive outfit of kitchen-garden utensils can easily be procured and 

 the work begun. When a class is ready to graduate from the kitchen 

 garden the voluntary service of half a dozen notable housekeepers, 

 who will give the simple lessons in cooking once a week, will yield 

 a most satisfactory harvest. The unconscious tuition of the culti- 

 vated house mother is often of greater value than all else. A little 

 girl of eleven years given such opportunities enthusiastically ex- 

 claimed, " I've taught my mother how to make bread ! " The 

 mother, a peasant woman from across the sea, had passed her child- 

 hood and youth in the fields, and, like many of her class, had re- 

 ceived no training for the responsibilities of motherhood. To the 

 large number of foreigners, who are constantly seeking homes in 

 our free land, the privileges of the kitchen garden and the free cook- 

 ing school would prove an inestimable blessing. When housework 

 shall take its proper place among the professions, the chaos which 

 now abounds in a majority of American homes will be forever ban- 

 ished. In home making, regarded as one of the noblest objects of 

 every woman's life in fact, the object whenever possible lies the 

 hope of the future. To this end God speed the kitchen garden and 

 the cooking school ! 



EDUCATION. The public school and kindergarten, free libraries, 

 art galleries and museums, cheap literature, and compulsory educa- 

 tion laws would seem, to the casual observer, to leave little need for 

 the philanthropist in the field of education. A philosopher of to- 

 day looks forward to the time when " the object of all free educa- 

 tion shall be the emancipation of the individual," and to the time 

 " when general education shall be supplemented by special schools 

 for the special vocations of life." 



The trend of the present system of education may be in that 



