Excerpt from Good Luncheons for Rural Schools Without a Kitchen There has been much hesitation on the part of even the most ardent advocates of economics as a public school study, because of the expense involved in the fittings that are found in the large schools in the cities, with gas and running water. But if, as we believe, conditions have so changed as to make it imperative that "the woman who spends" should know something of marketable products, the pupils of the rural schools need the opportunity to gain this knowledge just as much as those living in the cities need it. Indeed, from the efforts making to revive village industries and to discover new uses for the materials going to waste in every country town, it is easy to see the opportunity of the consolidated school where food, textiles, and industries may be studied, with illustrations, where inspiration may be given and received, and a new center of influence developed. Suggestion will bear abundant fruit if made at the age when impressions are permanent. This recommendation is no plea for fads and frills, taking time better spent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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