ndicated, and in the Parker Model Home and the Practise Cottage. The
Parker Model Home is the home of the young women who each year reach the
Senior class. Eight large, conveniently arranged rooms are set apart for
them, and they are taught things by having to do them. The class, as a
whole, is required to do actual work in the line of general
housekeeping, cooking and serving food, and laundering.

In order to give practical demonstration in housekeeping and to develop
the sense of responsibility in the work, a four-room house has been set
aside, in which the Senior girls "keep house." Four girls at a time live
in this house and have the entire care of it. They do all the work that
pertains to ordinary housekeeping, from the Monday morning's washing to
the Saturday's preparation for Sunday. They are also charged with the
responsibility of purchasing the food supplies which they consume. Three
dollars are allowed as the weekly expenditure for food. In view of the
low prices that obtain for provisions here, four girls can live
comfortably on this small allowance and have variety and plenty, and at
the same time very wholesome food. Thus the lesson of economy is taught
in the most effective way. The girls learn to appreciate the purchasing
power of money, a kind of training which boarding-students, who have
so much done for them, do not get. They acquire the habit of evolving
their own plans, of exercising unhampered their own tastes. Regularity,
system, exactness, neatness, and the feeling of responsibility, are all
developed in this way.

[Illustration: A MODEL DINING-ROOM.

From the department where table-service is taught.]

In both the Parker Model Home and the Practise Cottage I have charge,
with my assistant, of the oversight of what is done in the direction of
providing food, cooking it, serving it, etc.

Twenty-one classes a week are now taught; the preparatory classes one
hour per week, and the normal classes two to three hours per week. The
girls are required to work in groups, to wear white aprons, caps, and
sleeves, and to bring to the classes towels and holders. Each girl
brings her own blank books and keeps, through the year, a full report of
each lesson given.

Most of the girls who come to us know absolutely nothing of cooking and
housekeeping. They are, as a rule, like most beginners, more anxious to
make cakes, candies, pies, etc., than to make bread, to care for
utensils, and learn the practi