In co-operation with the Federal Board and the State Board o( Vocational Education, Iowa State college offered during the summer session the first Home Economics vocational conference which was primarily interested in serving women who would occupy supervisory and teacher training positions and which gave graduate credit in vocational Home Economics. Iowa State is approved by the Federal Board for vocational education and was especially fitted to hold this conference.

With the approach of fall, the time is at hand to put up pickles for the year. It is also an opportunity to make use of the many unripened and left-over vegetables in the garden.

Table of Contents

We “Do Over” Our Rooms by Irma Camp and Alice Dodge, page 1

The Mysteries of Amateur Make Up by Frederica Shattuck, page 2

Fall Time Is Pickling Time by Katherine Howells, page 4

Episodes Concerning Evolution of Home Economics by Ruth Elaine Wilson, page 5

Tea – Suggestive of the Rainbow by Esther Ellen Rayburn, page 6

Vary the Vegetable by Blanche Ingersoll, page 7

Constipation and Its Dangers by Anne Mundt, page 8

Graduate Credit Conference for Vocational Home Economics at Iowa State by Eleanor Murray, page 9

Fish That Is Appetizing by Maxine Smith, page 9

Economy, Or a Wrong Idea by Harriett Wallace, page 10

At the time an electric washer was brought into our home I agreed with the neighbor lady who said, "Well, it surely is a mighty fine thing, but I don't see how WE ever could afford it. I've given up all my extra time for six years to scrubbing clothes on my old tin washboard and I guess I can stand it another six, anyway until we are able to buy something better."

You remember the Mother Goose rhyme, don't you, and how puzzled you felt when you found that all of them were just "other" names for Elizabeth. And she was only one girl after all.