Doing one’s share in the home means not only taking care
of it but making it comfortable, peaceful, beautiful, and happy.
A member of the home who does all he or she can to keep the
home clean, to make it comfortable, to make it beautiful, and
to make it happy is a worthy home member.
Why should courtesy begin at home? Start the day right
in your home by saying “ Good morning ” with a smile and
with a cheery voice. This kind of greeting may make the whole
day brighter for every member of your family. A “ thank you ”
when mother does something for you may make your mother's
day brighter. Courtesy or thoughtfulness for others is the basis
of peace in the home.
No girl or boy can afford to be discourteous at home. If one
wants to be well liked or popular, one must cultivate good
manners or consideration for the feelings of others. The place
to practice good manners is the home. Courtesy in the home
is a part of worthy home membership.
Why shall we study home making? In the days of our
grandmothers only such subjects as history, Latin, and mathe-
matics were studied at school. Now it is believed that in ad-
dition to studying these subjects every boy or girl should learn
to do better the worth-while things he is doing and is going to do.
It may be that you go to the store, wash the dishes, set the table,
cook or help to cook meals, care for the baby or younger brothers
and sisters in your home. If so, would it not be a fine thing
for you to know how to do these things in the best way possible ?
We often learn to like to do things when we know how to do
them well.
To the Pupil
XVII
Educators believe that boys and girls should be taught how
to take care of themselves so as to keep well. Scientists have
found that the kind of food a person eats has much to do with
keeping well. Learning what to eat and how much to eat and
then actually eating as one should are an important part of daily
life.
For what may home making prepare you? Perhaps you are
thinking of what you can do when you leave school. Studying
home making may he the beginning of an interesting life's work.
Ellen Richards began, as did many other famous women, by
being a worthy home member. She became a great teacher of
home making. Since her day many occupations that have to do
with home making have been opened to women. A dietitian
in a hospital, a manager of a tea room, a social worker, a designer
of houses, a decorator of houses, a designer of gowns, a dress-
maker, a household editor of a magazine, a director of the home
economics department of a food manufacturing company, of a
household appliance company, or of a bank needs to be educated
in home making. These and many other interesting occupa-
tions are open to women who are trained in home making.
Whether your life’s work is in the home, school, factory, office,
hospital, store, or bank, you will find need for a study of home
making. A woman may not cook food, but she will select it ;
she may not make her clothes, but she will buy them.
Frances Willard said, “ If I were asked the mission of the
ideal woman, I would say it is to make the whole world home-
like." When Alice Freeman Palmer gave up the presidency
of Wellesley College to become a home maker, she said : “ There
is nothing better than the making of a true home."
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Doing one’s share in the home means not only taking care
of it but making it comfortable, peaceful, beautiful, and happy.
A member of the home who does all he or she can to keep the
home clean, to make it comfortable, to make it beautiful, and
to make it happy is a worthy home member.
Why should courtesy begin at home? Start the day right
in your home by saying “ Good morning ” with a smile and
with a cheery voice. This kind of greeting may make the whole
day brighter for every member of your family. A “ thank you ”
when mother does something for you may make your mother's
day brighter. Courtesy or thoughtfulness for others is the basis
of peace in the home.
No girl or boy can afford to be discourteous at home. If one
wants to be well liked or popular, one must cultivate good
manners or consideration for the feelings of others. The place
to practice good manners is the home. Courtesy in the home
is a part of worthy home membership.
Why shall we study home making? In the days of our
grandmothers only such subjects as history, Latin, and mathe-
matics were studied at school. Now it is believed that in ad-
dition to studying these subjects every boy or girl should learn
to do better the worth-while things he is doing and is going to do.
It may be that you go to the store, wash the dishes, set the table,
cook or help to cook meals, care for the baby or younger brothers
and sisters in your home. If so, would it not be a fine thing
for you to know how to do these things in the best way possible ?
We often learn to like to do things when we know how to do
them well.
To the Pupil
XVII
Educators believe that boys and girls should be taught how
to take care of themselves so as to keep well. Scientists have
found that the kind of food a person eats has much to do with
keeping well. Learning what to eat and how much to eat and
then actually eating as one should are an important part of daily
life.
For what may home making prepare you? Perhaps you are
thinking of what you can do when you leave school. Studying
home making may he the beginning of an interesting life's work.
Ellen Richards began, as did many other famous women, by
being a worthy home member. She became a great teacher of
home making. Since her day many occupations that have to do
with home making have been opened to women. A dietitian
in a hospital, a manager of a tea room, a social worker, a designer
of houses, a decorator of houses, a designer of gowns, a dress-
maker, a household editor of a magazine, a director of the home
economics department of a food manufacturing company, of a
household appliance company, or of a bank needs to be educated
in home making. These and many other interesting occupa-
tions are open to women who are trained in home making.
Whether your life’s work is in the home, school, factory, office,
hospital, store, or bank, you will find need for a study of home
making. A woman may not cook food, but she will select it ;
she may not make her clothes, but she will buy them.
Frances Willard said, “ If I were asked the mission of the
ideal woman, I would say it is to make the whole world home-
like." When Alice Freeman Palmer gave up the presidency
of Wellesley College to become a home maker, she said : “ There
is nothing better than the making of a true home."
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UNIT l: BREAKFAST
CHAPTER I
WHOLESOME BREAKFASTS