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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
The story of a pantry shelf, an outline history of grocery specialties: a machine-readable transcription.
A Great Influence
Still Further Multiplied
The news of these activities at Cornell--of the testing of new labor-saving equipment, of new cooking and housekeeping methods of various kinds--is carried to more than a million women each month through articles by Miss Van Rensselaer and her staff at Cornell in The Delineator.
Miss Van Rensselaer, as Editor of the Home Makers' Department of The Delineator, is enabled to exert one of the
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great educational forces for higher culinary standards brought to bear on American women. Through The Delineator, Miss Van Rensselaer has multiplied a thousand-fold the effectiveness of her accomplishment at Cornell.
The material drawn upon for these articles has principally to do with cooking: the preparing of new recipes, new combinations of foods, new menus and the determining of nutritive values. The service itself, however, really extends beyond the menu to every problem of the kitchen and the table. Indeed, the Practice House, where students learn housekeeping in its every phase, even includes the complete care of a baby, adopted each year by Cornell for the benefit of these "mothers" who, under the direction of trained Home Economics women, feed, bathe, dress and tend an infant from the tender age of two weeks throughout the session.
What a deep influence these activities exert upon the living standards of America!
What a proud achievement for The Delineator through Miss Van Rensselaer's identity with its editorial staff to assume
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Mrs. William Brown Meloney
Editor, The Delineator
From "Who's Who in America":
Mem. staff Washington (D. C.) Post, 1899; Denver Evening Post, 1900; mem. U. S. Senate Press Gallery and Washington corr., 1900-1; staff N. Y. Sun, 1901-4; Editor Woman's Magazine, 1914-20; also associate editor Everybody's, 1917-20; editor The Delineator, 1920-. Decorated, 1917, Medaille de Charleroi for service in behalf of Belgian Children; 1919, Ordre de la Reine Elisabeth for distinguished service to Belgian cause in United States; Chevalier Legion d'Honneur (France). Organizer Marie Curie Radium Com. (for purchase of gramme of radium). Director The Child Foundation, Am. Child Health Assn.; founder and vice-president Better Homes in America; mem. Nat. Institute of Social Sciences, Nat. League business and Professional Women. ...
Decorated: Medaille d'Honneur des Assurances Sociales, Armistice Day, 1924; Gold Medal for State Service (France), December, 1924; recognition of Better Homes work.
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Two pages showing how The Delineator
and The Designer handle
their features on foods; and an
illustration of the Butterick Cook
Book, by Miss Van Rensselaer,
Miss Flora Rose and their
associates at Cornell; the book has
been adopted by more than sixty
colleges, universities and state
normal schools.
the leadership of this remarkable movement! And what a source of satisfaction to Miss Van Rensselaer to realize that in The Delineator she has a medium for spreading on so great a scale the influence of the fine work done under her direction at Cornell!
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