m year to year that, since cooking
is so fundamental, every young woman, in the day-school at least, shall
take lessons in cooking. For the current school year, 1904-'05, 458
young women are receiving instruction.

The course covers, in its entirety, four years, but is so comprehensive
that even one and two years fit young women for the cooking of ordinary
foods. Each of these girls is required to attend upon the outlined
catalogue course of instruction, and in addition, from time to time,
upon lectures bearing upon the several subjects comprehended under
domestic science. The furnishing of the rooms is simple, but ample; the
furniture, in the main, being made by the young women in the
upholstering division. It has been widely praised by all who have seen
it.

After teaching for two years, I requested leave of absence for one year
so as to attend the Domestic-Science School of the Young Women's
Christian Association, Boston. This additional study, of course, helped
me very much. My studies were of foods, of the home, the teaching of
demonstration and settlement classes, etc. Much other useful information
also came my way.

When I returned to Tuskegee the next year I felt more able than ever to
be of assistance to the girls who come to us. I was better able to
outline my course of study. The thing that pleased me greatly, however,
both at Chautauqua and at Boston, was the fact that my former Tuskegee
training was commented on so favorably, as having been planned along
properly comprehensive lines.

No part of the Tuskegee Institute work is more valuable than that of the
domestic training. It is the policy of the institution to give special
attention to the training of girls in all that pertains to dress,
health, physical culture, and general housekeeping.

The girls are constantly under the strict and watchful care of the dean
of the woman's department, Miss Jane E. Clark, a graduate of Oberlin
College, a woman of liberal attainments and culture, and an example to
them in all that makes for the development of character; of Mrs. Booker
T. Washington, the director of industries for girls, and of the women
teachers, a body in every way representative of the qualities the girls
are besought to seek to attain. A corps of matrons, four in number,
specially assist the dean of the woman's department and keep in close
individual touch with the girls.

My own connection with the girls is in the cooking classes, as I have
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