Several alumnae members of Mortar Board were on the campus February 7 for the installation ceremonies of National Mortar Board, which then entered an Agricultural college for the first time.

Someone who knows the teaching profession very well told us that the strength back of our National Organization was the organization at home. Thus the strength of the Iowa Home Economics Association lies in its membership.

Every buyer, whether selecting material by the yard or in the finished garment, realizes that it is not an easy matter to distinguish fibers.

Of approximately one million children in Iowa one-tenth are constitutionally, mentally or physically defective and the remaining nine hundred thousand are the so-called "normal group". But, are any of this latter group really normal? If we use as our standards the best that Iowa can produce, is each child developing according to his maximum ability? Are special mental and physical defects being removed? What are the methods used to develop Iowa's children? How may we conserve the good qualities of each child and improve them?

Table of Contents

St. Patrick Inspires a Shamrock Luncheon by Alice Ericson and Julia B. Whiteside, page 1

Do You Test Your Textiles? by Mrs. Avis Duffey, page 2

Farm and Home Week Pays by Anne Westrom, page 2

Coffee in a Multitude of Ways by Adele Herbst, page 3

With the Iowa State Home Economics Association, page 4

Another Fuel – Bottled Gas by Florence Forbes, page 5

Iowa Child Welfare Research Station by Agnes Crain, page 6

Editorial, page 7

The Eternal Question, page 8

Who’s There and Where, page 9