To the question, what should be the cost of domestic science equipment for school work, the answers are as varied as the conditions where needs are to be met. In the United States and Canada there are in existence equipments of all grades, ranging from those used in the country district or city settlement school, to laboratories and appointments not to be surpassed by those in the best equipped university laboratories for work in the natural sciences.

Two situations will be considered: (1) The planning for rooms in a new building, and (2) the refitting of rooms used for other purposes.

THE NEW HOUSEHOLD ARTS BUILDING, TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY In a study of equipment for the teaching of domestic science, it seems appropriate to give a brief description of the new building which is being erected at Teachers College to shelter instruction in the household arts and sciences, and to refer to the new School of Household Arts which will occupy this building in September.

The dining room affords an opportunity for a combination of comfort, convenience, and beauty. It is often necessary to have the furnishing of the school dining room cost but little.

The plans and lists need to be worked over and over again, to determine how to divide the budget wisely between the different parts of the equipment. It is not often that funds are so ample that the teacher can have what she considers ideal; the problem then is to decide where to retrench without crippling the work.

A study of the material presented shows that the total cost of equipment may vary from one hundred dollars to several thousand. For five hundred dollars, a room may be well equipped for twenty pupils. This allows painting of the wall, a cooking table with drawers built in, an enameled sink, two stoves, good designs for the individual stoves, a liberal supply of small utensils, plain dining room fittings.

This depends upon the amount of work required of the pupils; and it is largely within the control of the teacher to economize and still have all supplies sufficient. Supplies in the elementary schools cost less than in the high school, as a rule; and in the normal school or college the expenditure is usually even larger.

The practice of giving luncheons to school children in the school building is becoming common in our large cities. The necessity for this has arisen from conditions-that make it impossible for children to go home at the proper hour, and also from the fact that food brought by the children themselves is often undesirable.

Domestic science as taken up in the eighth grade of the Elementary School furnishes much necessary information conducing to healthful living, in the study of the preparation of food, cleansing processes, and the manipulation of mechanical contrivances necessary for the carrying out of these processes.