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682 right living, other college women are teaching scientific cookery directly.

Miss Lucy C. Andrews, a B. A. from Michigan University, studied cooking at Purdue University and the New York Cooking School, and has taught the subject for the last seven years by giving demonstration lectures and holding practice classes for ladies, house servants, shop girls, and children. She has also worked to promote the interests of domestic science in schools.

Dr. Helen Putnam, president of the Collegiate Alumnæ of the woman's department of Brown University, gave in November, 1893, a series of lectures on Cooking for the Sick, at the first food exhibition ever held in Providence. The Collegiate Alumnæ of her university attended as special guests, as also undergraduates (women), with professors and friends, the superintendent of nurses with a corps of nurses from the Rhode Island Hospital, and many of the school committee of the city and members of the State Board of Education.

Who can overestimate the results when this college woman so clothed her subject with dignity and interest that it commanded the attention of such a body of distinguished listeners? Still others are teaching cooking in schools and colleges in connection with other branches of the subject.

The agricultural colleges are making rapid strides in developing this science. The Agricultural College of Kansas has been one of the pioneers in this direction.

Mrs. Nellie Sawyer Kedzie, a daughter-in-law of the eminent chemist, Prof. Robert Kedzie of the Agricultural College of Michigan, first graduated from the college to which she returned to inaugurate the department of domestic science, remaining for fifteen years. She has now been called to continue the same work in the Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, Illinois, an institution liberally endowed and wide in its scope.

The Kansas Agricultural College has had its department of domestic science so well equipped and so ably conducted by Mrs. Kedzie since 1882 that it has furnished the model for many Western colleges. The work has been so popular there that the Kansas Legislature has appropriated sixteen thousand dollars for a special domestic economy building, which is shortly to be completed.

Mrs. Helen Campbell goes to take Mrs. Kedzie's place from the University of Wisconsin, where she had already done brilliant work as a teacher in household economics. During many years she had given the brilliancy of her pen to books in this field, as well as in others. Some of them are: The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking, In Foreign Kitchens, The What-to-do Club, a story for girls, Woman Wage Earners, and her twelve lectures called