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3 Home Economics leaders are currently dedicated to the task of improving family life and training for gainful employment. The interrelatedness of improved family life and gainf l employment is quite significant -ecause of the distinct role played by each in today's societ-1 structure. THE BIRTH : HiIE h&IIS The beginning of home economics was first recognized near the end of the nineteenth century. Attempts were made earlier to promote domestic economy bat plan, did not materialize. Late in the seventeenth century household tasks were assigned and taught girls in the Ursuline :onvents in Quebec and was considered as a part of their education.3 Girls were allowed to spend sometime each day in the public schools of Boston as early as 1835. This w s -aught on the first and second grade levels.4 In 1326 Quaker children were taught to make sewing models at the :Iary Anna Longtreth School in Philadelphia. At Troy, New York during the same period a Female Seminary founded by Emma Willard of Troy, New York taught "house- wifery" to the young women. Students were required to keep 3vraig, Hazel T. The History of Home Economics. Edited by Blanche X. Stover, Practical Home Economics, New York City, (1945). 4Ibid.
