How can
one learn how to buy good and still cheap meats? How can one do with
less meat? And is buying in large quantities a good plan?

The third paper may take up markets, their cleanliness; the housewives'
leagues of certain cities and their work; what can country women do
whose market is limited?

The last paper should speak of the necessity of personal supervision by
the housekeeper; of the imprudence of ordering by telephone, and of the
system of giving orders at the door to the grocer.

The discussion may turn on the question of paying cash for everything or
charging.

IV--COOKING

A good beginning is a review of the cooking of our grandmothers, cooking
in various parts of the country, and cooking in foreign lands.

Scientific cooking is, first, a knowledge of food values, but it also
includes the art of cooking, and both may be presented. Show how an
expert cook will use whatever materials she has at hand and will avoid
the use of costly ingredients. A good topic here is, How shall we have
variety without increasing the expense?

The kitchen as a workshop is the subject of the next paper. Make it
plain that one needs a clean, sanitary room, with everything to work
with; suggest new utensils, fireless cookers, and so on, and describe
the ideal kitchen.

Close with a discussion on the point: How can a woman learn to be a good
cook? Mention cooking schools, demonstrations and lectures, the study of
magazine articles and the pamphlets sent out by the Department of
Agriculture. Clubs might form cooking classes as an outcome of this
meeting.

V--THE LAUNDRY

This topic may be arranged in two parts: the work done at home and the
work sent out. Under the first speak of the former methods and how
washing and ironing days were dreaded, and the old difficult ways of
working. The second paper will take the new ideas, and mention running
water, stationary tubs, washing machines, mangles, gas stoves, modern
flat-irons, and other appliances for the laundry. Speak of the economy
of buying soap, starch, and bluing at wholesale.

At this meeting members may bring in illustrations from catalogues of
anything they have seen which promises to help in doing laundry work at
home.

The other part of the program would naturally take up the larger aspects
of the question. Have a paper on public laundries: Are they sanitary? Is
it economical to have shirts done up there rather than at home? Describe
the methods of some