By HELEN KINNE, Professor of Household Arts Education, and ANNA M. COOLEY, Assistant Professor of Household Arts Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Cloth, I2mo, illustrated, 377 pages. $1.10

This book and the volume, Foods and Household Management, that follows it, make up a full course in domestic matters not confined to details of cooking and sewing. The books treat fully, but with careful balance, every phase of home-making. The authors hold that Harmony will be the keynote of the home in proportion as the makers of the home regard the plan, the sanitation, the decoration of the house itself, and as they exercise economy and wisdom in the provision of food and clothing.

"Home Economics stands for the utilization of the resources of modern science to improve home life," and to this end homemakers should be conversant with modern scientific thought on matters domestic. The best schemes of heating and lighting, modern arrangements for the disposal of waste, the sanitary efficiency of tinted walls, of bare floors, of furniture built on simple lines, these are some ways in which modern science instructs the intelligent homemaker. In the selection of textiles for clothing and domestic use, a housekeeper to be efficient must be able to distinguish between fabrics of different fibers and to choose durable weaves, she must be able to detect adulteration and the deceptive "finishing" processes. In buying ready-made garments she must know how to protect herself and her family from the danger of garments infected by diseased operators in sweatshops. The up-to-date book on home economy treats such topics and relates them to common experience.

The plan of the book is flexible. Parts may be omitted or shifted to meet the necessity or the convenience of different schools. The chapter headings in some measure disclose the breadth, the variety, and the practicability of the book :

The Home

Its plan and construction; heating, ventilating, lighting, water supply, and the disposal of waste; decoration; furnishing. Textiles. - Materials and how they are made. Garment-making. - Patterns ; cutting and making garments; embroidery. Dress. - History of costume; hygiene of clothing; economics of dress; care and repair of clothing; millinery.

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