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life ; there is use for it in the management and administration 

 of public charities and other institutions and occupations 

 relating especially to women and children, and there is use for 

 it in the teaching world. In this connexion I should like to 

 draw attention to the very interesting changes and develop- 

 ments that are taking place in girls' secondary schools. On 

 every side these schools are providing special courses of work 

 relating to household affairs, usually following, but sometimes 

 accompanying,. the ordinary school course; and there is, I am 

 happy to say, an ever- increasing desire to make the science 

 teaching in girls' schools bear more particularly on the things 

 and phenomena of the household. From my own observations, 

 and from the letters that I am continually receiving, I am sure 

 there is a real dearth of teachers who have reasonable famili- 

 arity with that borderland knowledge which lies between the 

 formal sciences and the practical arts of the household just 

 that part of knowledge in fact which we include in our new 

 scheme. I do not doubt therefore that many of our pupils 

 will become teachers of a true domestic science, that they will 

 co-operate in an effective way with the teachers of the domestic 

 arts, and that they will help to raise the position of these 

 home training classes in secondary schools, so that they may 

 not be regarded as a sort of despised feminine modern-side, 

 destined primarily for those who are deficient in brains or 

 industry. 



The establishment of courses of instruction in home science 

 and household economics in connexion with universities is no 

 new thing. America has not failed to include this among its 

 abundant educational enterprises, and in far Japan we have 

 a women's university which I believe, from all I have read and 

 learned, might teach us many a useful lesson. We shall do 

 well to study what has been done elsewhere, but I am not 

 desirous that we should merely imitate. Transplanted schemes 

 often perish like exotics, and it is better for us to let our schemes 



