FOREWORD 



HE Library of Home Economics is the result 

 of some years' experience in teaching by corre- 

 spondence what may be termed the ' ' New Pro- 

 fession of Home Making," and what Mrs. Ellen H. 

 Richards has called the fourth " R " in education Right 

 Living. 



^1 It is realized that the business of housekeeping has 

 not kept pace with the tremendous advancement in other 

 lines of human endeavor, that the wonderful discoveries 

 in science and developments in the arts only slowly and 

 partially have been applied to the problems of personal 

 health and home life. 



fl With the object of giving home-makers and mothers, 

 everywhere, some of the benefits of the teaching now 

 offered in a number of colleges under the terms, do- 

 mestic science and home economics, the correspondence 

 courses of the American School of Home Economics 

 were planned. Special lesson papers or text books were 

 necessary, for ordinary text books are not adapted to 

 correspondence instruction. From some years of experi- 

 ence in correspondence teaching in other lines, it was 

 known that the lesson books, to be successful, must be 

 simple, concise, non-technical, and above all sufficiently 

 interesting and of immediate practical value to hold the 

 attention of the student throughout the course. 

 fl The aim has been, not to teach science nor to teach 



