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Show - - - - t - THE HOMB This Department in Edited by Mis Hazel Love of the Africul- tifral College. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. Miss Blanche Cooper. Written for the Dcseret Farmer. Special Training for Women. Of all discoveries in modern education edu-cation the most splendid is the rccog-nition rccog-nition of individual need, of individual indivi-dual claim, of individual right; the infinite in-finite and fascinating variety in human hu-man capacity. There is almost a divine di-vine mission for those who help the human being into the fujness of life. What can bring greater satisfaction to the father or mother than to see that their child has life more abundantly? abund-antly? ' Is there a better endowment for the daughter or the son than a liberal education? All that anyone in normal nor-mal health and strength should .nes j is a thorough preparation to do his or her work efficiently. What is woman's work? What is her individual need, her individual claim, her individual right? Woman's particular work is Home Making; her individual need, claim und right k such training as will fix her for home, life. When the foundation of the Utah Agricultural College was laid woman's wom-an's work was considered as important import-ant as man. Provision was made for her special development in the -organization of the domestic science department, de-partment, the first of its kind in the' State of Utah. Every year the department has grown until today it is better equipped equip-ped to meet the demands and needs of the girls and women of -the state, than ever before. The number of students of college standing increases each year. Last year there was one applicant for the Bachelor's Degree in domestic science, at the beginning of thiB year there are five applicants. Even with this increase the girls are not supporting sup-porting the Domestic Science department depart-ment to the extent that the boys of the state are supporting the Agricultural' Agricul-tural' department. Last- year there were two applicants for Bachelor De- grees in agriculture, this year there are ten with projects of more." "Hast year there were 133 more agricultural students than domestic science and '.he total registration there was practically prac-tically three boys to every girl. At this rate what will be the condition con-dition in ten years? Docs it mean that there shall be 133 trained mas-tcrhcads mas-tcrhcads of farm household without trained home-makers? Docs it mean that men shall have to intrust women unskilled in the household arts to dispose dis-pose of nine-tenths of their income? If it is necessary for a man' to train and educate himself, isn't it necessary for a. woman? Is it time for the girls of this state to wake up? The Utah Agricultural College should be serving four hundred hun-dred girls rather than one hundred. o |