"Home economics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... College, illustrating this conflict, there exists, besides the course in Secretarial Studies, an equivalent course in Home Economics. ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... who have attended to the outburst of novels and treatises on humble or squalid life, to the copious discussions on child-study, to the masses of slum literature, and to the numerous writings on home economics, how true to-day seems the following sentence written in 1837: "The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life are ...
— Four American Leaders • Charles William Eliot
... Lane in his "Level of Social Motion" claims that present tendencies are leading to a level of $2000 a year and a family of two children as an average. Mr. Wells claims as a tendency in living conditions the practically automatic and servantless household. In connection with the Mary Lowell Stone Home Economics Exhibit a design of an approach to this kind of a dwelling was asked for in sketch. The accompanying plans were made by a firm who have had not only experience in this kind of domestic building, but who have sympathy ...
— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards |
