This paper was written, not by the domestic science teacher, but by other teachers who, in their classes in history, geography, and nature study, have found need to use material generally composing a part of the domestic science course. An article must be so written only when cooking is not an isolated activity but an intrinsic part of school living, when the problems of the kitchen are solved in the classroom, and when the social demands of the class are ministered to in the kitchen.The school plans, for example, to give candy at Christmas to people who are in danger of having none. In consequence of that plan and in response to the motive impelling it, the cooking teacher and the children devise ways and means of making the candy. Perhaps the best time was when the second grade, having made fondant, invited the ninth to help them mold it. The little children and older ones paired off and gaily chatted together while they modeled bonbons and graced them with nuts or raisins, wrapped them in pretty boxes, made Christmas cards to enclose with them, and neatly tied up the parcels. Again, there is a yearly Saturday garden-party, where, instead of wandering in white flannels among blooming flowers, or instead of sipping chocolate under the pergola, as the name "garden-party" implies, the boys of the high school and the men of the faculty doff their coats and vigorously ply spades and rakes to prepare the garden for the spring planting. But hearty gardeners need hearty food, and the girls of the high school enter the kitchen and cook and serve a luncheon. During the spring quarter, too, there is a schoolwide honoring and feting of the seniors. Usually two or three classes want to express their good fellowship by luncheons, and again the social demand molds the domestic-science course, and the kitchen is full of young cooks learning to make the dishes thought to be most pleasing to senior palates. Frequently, too, grades make sandwiches or little cakes for mothers' meetings held in the afternoons. In many such ways the utensils of the kitchen prove themselves the tools of a socialized group besides being the furnishings of a laboratory, and the cooking teacher becomes a servant of the community as well as a scientist.
