d to teach the principles of sanitary and economic
living both in institution, school, and family life.

Probably no one movement has been so powerful as this in convincing
educators of the efficiency of trained women as factors in sanitary
progress. In no other direction is the outlook for social service
greater. The woman must, however, be more than a willing worker; she
must be educated in science as a foundation for sanitary work.

Within the next few years the demand for trained women is sure far to
exceed the supply, for the fundamental sciences are not to be acquired
in one or two years.

Young college women are even now realizing their mistake in neglecting
the sciences. They assumed that science was not of practical use. They
assumed that educational curricula were stable and would go on in the
same lines forever.

The high school is now fully awake to these vital factors. Some of the
best buildings in the United States are the high school buildings,
those of the West excelling those of the East. By 1911 nearly every
school will have a course in Sanitary Science. It may be under the
name of Home Economics, or of Camp Cookery, or of House Building, but
the idea of better physical environment has already taken root. In the
extension of school work by the employment of the school visitor to
supplement the work of the teacher in the grade schools, in Parents'
Associations, in Mothers' Clubs, in social endeavors on every side,
there is coming the study of more special branches of sanitary
science, clean air, clean floors, clean clothes--where once cooking
lessons were the extent to which the workers could lead.

Evolution has at last been accepted as applying to man as well as to
animals. In his inaugural address, November, 1909, President H. J.
Waters, of Kansas Agricultural College, said: "... for every dollar
that goes into the fitting of a show herd of cattle or hogs, or into
experiments in feeding domestic animals, there should be a like sum
available for fundamental research in feeding men for the greatest
efficiency.... We have millions for research in the realm of domestic
animals and nothing for the application of science to the rearing of
children."

Evidence is not wanting that all this is to be speedily changed. Man
has awakened to the fact that he is "the sickest beast alive" and that
he has himself to blame, and, moreover, that it is within his power to
change his condition and that speedily.