The President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership held in Washington, D. C., December 2 to 5, 1931, created wide interest, and was attended by over 3,000 citizens representing every state in the Union. Some readers of the Iowa Homemaker may have attended the conference, and a greater number may have heard the broadcast of the address of President Hoover at Constitution Hall.

During the National Club Congress, the First Presbyterian Church dedicated one service to the 4-H club members from all over the United States who were in Chicago at that time.

Of all the questions asked the nursery school teachers at Iowa State College, those regarding poetry are perhaps the least adequately answered. This may be due to the fact that nobody has done enough work with poetry to justify giving any kind of opinion regarding it. Most of these questions concern poetry books and sources of good poems. One parent asked, "Are there certain poems which fit a certain age?" and "When do you first give poetry to a child?" Others ask, "What is the best time of day to give poetry?" and "Of what value is poetry to a child?" Perhaps it is not impossible to help parents a little, if we tell of the things which we actually have done in the nursery school.

We find that our home management houses are a matter of interest to visitors because of their differences from usual laboratory courses. Besides the abilities and training of the students we learn much of the traits and characteristics which influence their work and life as they live in family groups there.

A few days ago a man who has a large apple orchard, which did not yield the usual crop this year, said to me: "I do not know what our children will do for apples to carry to school in the lunches this year. Heretofore they have been sure of the apple a day."