Show STUDENT LIFE men are going to find their own solution But as we said before this side is not for us to discuss because it has been “handled” time and again for the readers of this paper and in better form than we can treat it The side of this Domestic Science work about which a few words are going to be said is the “commercial” view of it Pardon the expression but it fits best Suppose that when a young woman receives her sheep-ski- n with a B S thereunto attached she is unlucky (?) enough not to wear a diamond ring on the third finger of her left hand and suppose furthermore that she feels as if the little people at home need attention and she is in the way Then she looks around for employment She can go into an office and work ten hours a day for six days a week and receive but This is nominal compensation the kind of labor that “kills” Heretofore office work has been the field of labor for a girl with a college education behind her as shop girl clerk and like places are filled by her sisters with less education and training Since the advent of Domestic Science work an entirely new field has been opened up to the young women of America Conditions are rapidly changing and the “sweet girl graduate” who is lucky enough to have her degree in the “science of house-keepinis indeed one of the chosen few g” 93 At present the demand for competent instructors in this line of work is greater than the supply The girls with the short course certificates find as ready employment as the B S girls This should not be and this condition can be overcome only by putting more six-yegirls in the field The domestic Science work is doing for women what agriculture is doing for men Some people think that Domestic Science work teaches the girl only how to “keep house” We heard one mother say: “I can teach my daughter all of the Domestic Science work she needs right at home and when she goes to college she goes for culture” The mother needs a six years’ course in Domestic Science for no other purpose than to find out what the course of instruction is like She would find all of the culture necessary along with practical training which makes tfce culture all the more valuable She would find the Greek and Latin chemistry and mathematics the English and French It is all there in the Domestic Science course We remember distinctly of telling that mother this and she in return said: “Oh you call that culture do you?” We could only reply: “Yes what do you call culture?” She replied: “A little music and some French” Woe be unto the man who finally gets that daughter That ar |