Excerpt from The Journal of Home Economics, 1919, Vol. 11 In these days that have followed our wild celebration of the coming of peace we have begun to realize that the problems of reconstruction are, in many ways, more difficult to solve than those that arose during the conflict. The great educational movement in conservation devel oped throughout the country an understanding and appreciation of our work in home economics which offers us a great opportunity for service and we shall have need of all our training and resources to meet the new situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.