To all those who, through heart interest or life labor, are engaged in the effort toward orderly instruction in hand labor, based upon sound psychology and rooted in a social necessity - this book is respectfully dedicated.

In the whole history of human development and adjustment, no condition has ever before existed in which so many men and women have attempted authorship.

Likewise, the need of authorship, compilation, definite and practical guidance in the highly specialized processes which everywhere touch and articulate with human life was never so great. A militant and world-wide impulse is moving toward a democracy, and a necessity for human efficiency which brooks no hindrance and is impatient of delay.

Considerate thought and definite aim are the hand-maids of all action among individuals, as well as states. Every life must have its preamble, as well as its constitution and by-laws to be observed in carrying out its use and purpose. Human society, in all its social, moral and economic relations, is being considered more and more as an indissoluble union of indestructible elements. A high estimate is now placed upon the value of the individual. He is becoming more and more an integral factor. He is no longer pattern-minded, nor tribal in thought or habit. Patriotism for his race and fellows is not less, because he places a higher value on self-respect and makes judgment and conscience his guide and chief, instead of a painted warrior or a sceptered king.

That the chief of all agencies provided for the preparation of future citizens and a homogeneous society - the American Free School - shall not fail of its mission, the life necessities and life labors, as well as the highest and happiest use of each life, must become more and more its specific concern.

This is manifested through the introduction of hand labor and Vocational instruction to become more and more the basis of educational and teaching processes, and reaches its highest ideal in the well-defined desire for Vocational guidance.

The publications of the Muncie Normal Institute are the result of collaboration, experiment, elimination and practical trial. They are the fruit of compilation, classification, correlation and standardization, as well as inspired authorship. Their justification is found in their popularity and useful help to all who are doing their share in the schools, and in the vast scheme of the Industrial Educational movement, and assisting to make a school solution for a problem which is of sudden origin, but of tremendous force and incalculable importance.

President Muncie Normal Institute

This text is designed with the idea of pursuing systematically and sequentially the work begun in Book One: the underlying principle of setting forth definite and specific directions to be placed in the hands of each student is continued throughout all the regular type lessons of the book. The all important factor of associating kindred recipes and suggestions for home application with each lesson is carefully developed.

Students who have satisfactorily completed the work of Book One should have no difficulty in following the work presented in this text. The elementary processes and fundamental principles, which are so minutely illustrated in Book One, are re-employed and applied in the pursuit of more elaborate and advanced work. These processes will not be shown by such detailed illustrations except by way of review; all new processes not previously presented will be found fully illustrated.

The general scheme of presenting and working out the class lesson is identical with the plan of Book One, however it will be found that in consideration of the more advanced age, experience and ability of the students, wider opportunity is offered for the personality of each student to assert itself in the work. The exercise of initiative should be encouraged, individual opinions developed, and practical application of the principles of the class lesson should be made to outside work.

The Note Book Work is continued with the belief that considerable emphasis should be placed upon the economic side of the work. It is not sufficient that a girl should simply be able to follow a recipe and produce an attractive dish; she should appreciate the importance, not only of knowing its food value and its proper place in a menu, but she should also concern herself with the cost of the food materials, the time and effort required in the preparation, and, in fact, she should recognize every element which a modern business man considers in producing results most economically.

The subjete of Domestic Science is so broad, and the home conditions are so varied, that it would be impossible to present detailed working directions for home application. It is therefore deemed best to offer some general suggestions along the trend of thought aroused by the class lesson, and leave it to the option of the teacher to employ these ideas, and by means of her own initiative outline specific work suited to the needs of her particular class, and in such harmony with local interests as to produce a lively co-operation between her school and the various factors of the community.

Edited by M. G. BURTON.

Suggestion To Teachers

In the preparation of this text, just as in Book One, every effort has been made to relieve the teacher of clerical work, and such other routine duties as may be entrusted to the students. This plan not only conserves the teacher's time and energy for the more important function of studying the personality and individual needs of each student, but it also tends to place the students upon their own resources, and thus develops their powers of research and self-reliance.

All working directions will be found presented in terms which should be perfectly understandable to the average student, and by requiring each student to rely upon her own interpretation of the printed page the full educational value of the work can be realized.

A Teachers' Guide, containing market orders, housekeepers' directions, references to bulletins, etc., and other general information applying to each lesson has been prepared. It is not the thought that this manual is to curtail the initiative of the teacher, nor to insinuate that she lacks the training and ability to furnish this information to her students. The purpose is simply to set forth in compact form some ideas, references and other data so as to relieve the teacher as much as possible.

The Housekeepers' Directions are placed on perforated pages so they may be torn out and given to the girls who are to perform those duties. These are general directions which may easily be varied to suit the specific needs of different kitchens. They will be found very helpful in marketing because of the lists of food materials which have been carefully estimated for each lesson. The quantity of such materials may readily be varied to suit the number of pupils in the class.

This Manual is furnished without charge to all teachers whose classes are using this Text.