"Nursery school is the place for the child from the time he is 18 months old until he enters public school. Both he and his family are benefited by such an arrangement." This is the theme of this first article on "The Place of the Child." Next month a mother who does not send her child to nursery school and one who does will tell you why they feel that the nursery school is not or is the place for their children. The series will be closed by Miss Anna E. Richardson, field worker of the committee for child development and parental education of the American Home Economics Association.

Do you realize the amount of research in Home Economics that is being done right here at Iowa State College? At least 32 major problems in research have been completed by the graduate students in Home Economics this year. In Foods and Nutrition, nine have been completed; in Applied Art, four; in Textiles and Clothing, ten; in Home Administration, three; in Institutional Management, two and in Vocational Education, six. In addition to these problems done by graduate students, members of the faculty have done some studies, and at least 15 minor problems have been studied by undergraduate students.

American standards of living demand cleanliness of wearing apparel. The Roadside Settlement house of Des Moines, through a laundry department maintained for the last twenty-one years, has furnished the means for attaining these standards to the people within a three mile radius.

Again an important season in the cycle of a wardrobe is here, and every clothes-loving woman of us is wondering just what is to be worn. What does fashion say we should wear if we are to be in style? Now, may I ask just what you understand by style? Does it mean some particular fabric which seems to be popular, or some unusual cut to a skirt or a sleeve which may be becoming to a few and impossible for many? Does being in style mean wearing a fabric or adopting certain cuts to garments which may bring out the bad points of the wearer instead of the good? Indeed no; to be in style one must follow the trend of fashion always, but choose with discretion those fabrics and those lines which are most becoming.

The State Association page of the Homemaker should serve as a conference ground for home economics teachers and an exchange of mutually helpful ideas as well as a page for official announcements in regard to the state organization. The article in this issue bears on a question of especial concern to home economics teachers-the teaching of social relationships. How are you planning to handle this part of your homemaking course this year? Won't you give the rest of us the benefit of your ideas by sending in problems and teaching devices you have used successfully for such teaching?