Minnesota.-University offers course in child care and training in connection with the home management houses. Practically all the high schools in the State offer some work, length of course depending upon type of community.

Brookline, Mass.-Physical and mental care of child emphasized in home economics courses.

Detroit, Mich.-Unit course in high schools includes essentials for the mental and physical growth of babies, feeding, bathing, dressing, general care, importance of proper diet, formation of habits. These phases are included in the ninth grade of the intermediate course of study.

Springfield, Mass.-Through the home economics classes, child care is a focal interest.

Long Beach, Calif.-A unit course given for the first time in junior high schools-food, clothing, and simple care of the young child form the basis of the laboratory project.

Newton, Mass.-Special classes in junior and senior high school given by Red Cross nurse.

Los Angeles, Calif.-Sixteen public-school nurseries under the supervision of the department of home economics and correlated with elementary and junior high school.

TIME ALLOTMENT FOR CHILD CARE AND WELFARE IN THE SCHOOLS OF 62 CITIES

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NOTABLE IMPROVEMENT IN HOME ECONOMICS EQUIPMENT

Among the most noteworthy advances in home economics equipment is the general sentiment against housing such departments in the basement. This sentiment has gathered in such proportions that home economics departments have been forced to the surface where good light and air are possible. The old-fashioned hollow square is

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everywhere being displaced either by the " unit desk arrangement or unit kitchens. Housekeeping suites are generally used. One of the best examples of this type of equipment is found in New York City. However, one of the most improved methods for making home economics function in the lives of the girls is the home economics cottage. These cottages have increased in number from 1 in 1907 to more than 200 in 1925. According to Better Homes in America, 64 per cent of this number "were acquired between the years 1920 and 1925." One high school in the past biennium acquired a place for its nursery school.

GRADES RECEIVING FOOD AND CLOTHING INSTRUCTION

The Bureau of Education sent a questionnaire to 116 leading cities of the Untied States, asking as to the instruction given in food and clothing studies. Replies were received from 97 of these cities. The grades in which foods and clothing are taught, either as required or elective, or both, are shown in the following report:

Number of cities having food and clothing studies in certain grades

Among the States reporting the use of educational tests in home economics are New Mexico, California, Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Indiana, North Carolina, Louisiana, Vermont, and Pennsylvania.

During the biennium the following home economics educational tests were published.

Home economics information tests for girls completing the eighth grade. New York, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University. University of Illinois, Bureau of Educational Research. An information test in foods. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1924, pp. 8.

A test for girls completing food preparation courses in the junior high school. Department of Home Economics, University of Chicago.

A new analytic sewing scale, by Katherine Murdoch. Teachers College Record, 1922-23, pp. 453-458.

The Murdoch sewing scale. Manual of directions, by Katherine Murdoch. Teachers College Bulletin 14, Series No. 3, New York, Teachers College, Columbia University, October 7, 1922.

Murdoch Analytic sewing scale for measuring stitches. New York, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1923.

Home economics sewing tests for girls. Anna M. Cooley and Grace Reeves, Teachers College Record, 1923-24, pp. 274--392.

Charts for diagnosing defects in buttonholes. Issued by the Bureau of Educational Measurements and Standards, State Normal School, Emporia, Kans. Brown, Clara M. Modern educational measurements in home economics. Journal of Home Economics, 15, pp. 657-659, November, 1923.

What can educational measurements do for home economics, Journal of Home Economics, 16, pp. 191-196, April, 1924.

Construction and use of information tests in home economics. Journal of Home Economics, 16, pp. 251-256, May, 1924.

HOME ECONOMICS IN BUSINESS

Home economics in business is a new venture, but from all reports it is proving a most successful one, for the trained home economics woman is making known to the commercial world the needs of the 20,000,000 home makers. She stands as the coordinator between the home and industry. Her technical and scientific information is appreciated and demanded more and more from food producers and manufacturers of food, household equipment and furnishings, textiles and clothing, and from the industries engaged in banking, milling, dairying, and baking. Home economics workers are now found in all such industries and in a number of others.

Nutrition service for the employees is now made available through the foresight of many of the larger industrial concerns. The employees' health is now recognized as an asset. A number of homeeconomics women of national reputation have charge of the nutrition service in industrial concerns. Many department stores maintain in their clothing sections trained home-economics lecturers on dress, color, and design for the benefit of their patrons, for it is realized that the clothing teacher is responsible for increasing intelligence in this direction.

Journalism in home economics is practically an unexplored field, yet a number of colleges and universities, realizing its importance, are advising the election of courses in the psychology of advertising, salesmanship, and others.

Home-economics women have opened offices as consultants on the merchandising of home utilities, and, lastly, home economics has invaded the associated advertising clubs of the world in order that the truth concerning utilities for the home may be broadcast.

HOME-ECONOMICS RESEARCH

Home Economics Circular No. 18, published by the Bureau of Education June, 1924, gives the titles of completed research from home-economics departments in American colleges and universities from 1918 to 1923.

AMERICAN HOME ECONOMICS IN FOREIGN FIELDS

The American Home Economics Association in 1920 voted to raise $6,000 for the support of a professor of home economics for the Constantinople College for Women. This undertaking has proved so successful that two sisters, graduates of the college, have opened a school with most primitive equipment in Tirona, the capital of Albania, and called it Kyrias Collegiate. Here, in this humble beginning, the fundamental principles of home life are to be taught. In 1922 the United States Department of Agriculture loaned to France a worker to train county demonstration agents. The result was that two young French women were dispatched to this country to receive six months' training, one at Ames, Iowa, and the other at the Georgia State College of Agriculture. Upon their return to France they were each made responsible for the organization of home demonstration work in counties near Paris.

Both New Zealand and Korea claim American pioneers in home economics.

Perhaps the most outstanding accomplishment during the biennium is the survey of Chinese home life, made by the dean of home economics of the Oregon Agricultural College. Twelve hundred and fifty questionnaires were sent to Chinese homes in 16 different Chinese Provinces. This study was made preliminary to the introduction of home economics into Yenching College of Peking.

THE BETTER HOMES IN AMERICA MOVEMENT

The Better Homes in America movement was established in 1922 and reorganized on a national basis in December, 1923. It is an educational movement supported by public gifts and operated for the public service.

It is the aim of Better Homes in America to establish a local committee in every community in America. The chairmen of the local committees are appointed by the officers of the national head