School 76
Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois 82
Children in the Francis Parker School, Chicago 84
Household Arts Building, Columbia University 97
Household Arts Building, California Polytechnic
School 97
Mary D. Chambers, Rockford College 104
Mr. L. D. Harvey, Homemakers' School 104
Practical Experience in Serving Breakfasts, Dinners
and Suppers, Cleveland Schools 120
Girls in Cleveland Learn to Make Pottery as Well as
Design 120
Class in Food Adulterations, University of Wisconsin 122
Model House in Washington-Allston School 122
One-Week Courses in Home Economics, University of
Wisconsin 128
Evening Cookery Classes in the St. Louis High Schools 130
Interests of Chicago Women's Club: Domestic Science
Classes; Instruction for the Blind; Orchestral
Concerts; Suffrage Campaigns 186
Interests of Chicago Women's Club: Park Attendants;
Mothers' Clubs; Hospital Kindergartens; Vacation
Schools 190
Interests of Chicago Women's Club: Improvement of City
Square; Neighborhood Organizations; Industrial and
Agricultural Education for Girls 197

WHENCE AND WHY

The chapters of this book were originally articles in _Everybody's
Magazine_. I have not embellished them with footnotes nor given them
any other part of the panoply of critical apparatus. It could be done.
I have preferred to leave them in the dress I first gave them,--a
fighting dress. They owe much of their structure, it is true, to facts
and ideas out of the dust of libraries. But they owe much more to
facts and ideas exhumed out of the much more neglected dust of daily
circumstance. Either dust, by itself, is lifeless. When the two cohere
they establish the current of existence. At their meeting-place this
book has tried to stand. And so, while it hopes to have added to
knowledge, it will have failed unless it has merged into conduct.

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