I have been very much interested in what Mrs. Welch has told me about her class in Domestic Economy as well as in what I have heard from you today. For it seems to me that the great fault in the education of our American girls is a want of practical knowledge of housekeeping. I go about a great deal in America & visit in many homes & I find that all our ladies enjoy & wish to have a well furnished table, a pretty tasteful home & a neat well organized household, but they have many difficulties to encounter in order to accomplish these results & in most cases it arises from the fact that they do not understand the practical part of housekeeping. No one can instruct others to do what one does not thoroughly understand
