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 class of Southerners how to make gumbo, but she did manage to secure many an old family recipe to bring back to her Northern pupils. When she found that in certain cities mistresses of homes took no interest in cookery or dietetics, she quickly announced classes for servants, and wealthy women subscribed in large numbers and sent their maids to the lectures.

In a mid-West city, a pioneer in domestic science tried in vain to establish herself as a lecturer and demonstrator, and finally when a salary of five dollars per week looked very desirable to her she accepted an offer from an editor of a local paper to conduct a household column on his woman's page two days in each week. Women began to write to her for advice on household questions, and she answered their questions conscientiously, in a happy, personal vein. To-day she has all the cooking classes she can handle, drawn largely from the ranks of the very women who had tossed her neatly-engraved announcement cards into the waste-basket. Another Western student of domestic science is now State Inspector of Foods.

For women who wish to do, rather than to teach, there is offered a special course, one year in length, known as the course in dietetics and housekeeping, designed to prepare women to become dietitians, matrons and skilled housekeepers for institutions. I quote from a cata-