. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ndependently and with-out due regard to ultimate cost. A city is alumys in the making: itis never completed. Life means growth,so that city planning will be necessarywhile the city lasts. HOME ECONOMICS IN THETENEMENTS WINIFRED GIBBS New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor The teaching of cooking and hygiene in the homes by visiting teachers is one ofthe recommendations of the Boston-1915 Charities and Correction Conference. Thefollowing article des
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ndependently and with-out due regard to ultimate cost. A city is alumys in the making: itis never completed. Life means growth,so that city planning will be necessarywhile the city lasts. HOME ECONOMICS IN THETENEMENTS WINIFRED GIBBS New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor The teaching of cooking and hygiene in the homes by visiting teachers is one ofthe recommendations of the Boston-1915 Charities and Correction Conference. Thefollowing article describes the successfid work in that field conducted by the NewYork Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.—Editor. AliOUT five years ago the news-papers of New York City arousedconsiderable discussion through state-ments that an increasing number ofchildren were going to school breakfast- less. The oldest relief association in thecity, the Association for Improving theCondition of the Poor, had alreadydecided that there was an increasingnumber of under-nourished children HOME ECONOMICS IN THE TENEMENTS 233. TEACHING COOKING IN THE HOME rather than breakfastless H. Allen, at that time chief ofstaff of the Association, decided thatsomething might be done to remedyconditions through instructions to thehousekeeper, arguing that possibly someof the malnutrition was due to ignorancerather than to actual insufficiency ofincome. A dietitian was sent into the fieldand instructed to use only the resourcesat hand and to stri^e to make theseresources yield a maximum of healthand working power. Roughly speaking,the families considered fell into twogroups, the dependent and the self-supporting. In the case of the first,it was a question of direction of properuse of relief funds; in the second, ofeducation in the use of the familysmoney. A subdivision which now entersinto each of the above cases is the feed-ing in cases of disease. Here the prob-lem is more diff
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