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The Iowa Homemaker vol.7, no.5
The Iowa Homemaker: Volume 7, Issue 5
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Interest in the problem of supplementary feeding of school children, and in the previous experimental work done to determine the value of various foods, such as oranges, figs and milk, f.or this purpose, led Zorada Titus, M. S. in foods and nutrition, July 1927, to conduct a study of the effect of the supplementary feeding of grape juice, and of milk, on the rate of growth of children, for her master's thesis.
Old Mother Nature dealt kindly with the homecomers of Iowa State College this year. She marshalled her co-workers expertly and produced weather that would have been satisfactory to the most exacting of royalty.
Enrollment in graduate work in the Home Economics Vocational Education Department has shown a decided increase during the recent summer sessions over that of any previous summers. During the first session 41 students were enrolled, while in 1926 the enrollment for that session was 25. The second session this year totalled an enrollment of 21, and in 1926 there were only 8 students during the second session.
Thanksgiving, or any other holiday, seems to be the time to stay at home and be happy. Company may come, as company does, and is expected on this day of days. Planning ahead is efficient, knowing what and how to buy is prudent, but knowing how to prepare what is bought is quite the most necessary of all.
Gertrude Murray, H. Ec. '25, is doing infant welfare work in Chicago. She writes: "My official title is 'dietitian,' but our work really consists in educating the mothers, or at least endeavoring to teach them, the rules of diet, sleep and training of the pre-school child.