Those who can spend two consecutive years of two
hours a week are advised to follow in the second year a
course something like the following : —
XXll INTRODUCTION
September. — Eeview the Chemistry of Foods and Prm-
ciples of Cooking.
October and November. — Starchy Foods and How to
Cook Them.
December. — Proteids and Hoio to Cook Them.
January. — Fish, Oysters, arid Salad.
February. — Cake and Pastry:
March. — Invalid Cooking.
April. — Advanced Laundry Work.
May. — House Cleaning and Household Pests.
June. — Advariced Mending and Seiving.
Eelated Work : Beading. — The Eeader accompanying
this manual provides abundant reading matter. But with
the aid of the typewriter and mimeograph, or even with
the mimeograph alone, the intelligent teacher can provide
her class with additional material by following up the
numerous references, particularly to the various magazines.
Language. — Or she may use these same sources of mate-
rial for her own information, imparting it to the children
in oral language lessons. Carefully written exercises should
follow all completed subjects.
It goes without saying in these progressive days, all new
words belong to the next spelling lesson.
Arithmetic. — This is somewhat carefully worked out in
the chapter on " Foods." Similar work may be done in con-
nection with many of the other subjects. Do not fall into
the prevalent error of thinking that in using the word "fish "
in an arithmetical problem you are correlating arithmetic
and domestic science ! The problem must be real, not sham,
and the relationship intrinsic, not artificial. Probably the
INTRODUCTION XXlli
best opportunity for this applied arithmetic may be found
in tlie planning and equipment of the rooms. The dimen-
sions, areas, and costs are questions that must be solved by
some. Why not by the pupils as well as the teacher ?
In conclusion I should like to say that if the grade teacher
feels as much interest and gathers as much knowledge in
reading this volume as I did in reading each separate
manuscript, as it came to my hands, then the mission of
the book will be accomplished, and the day is near at hand
when every school child in the land will be guided by intel-
ligent hands over the threshold of that earthly Paradise,
a clean, restful, beautiful home.
But remember,
" It takes a Mind to drive the Body
Even to a cleaner sty ! "
L. L. W. WILSON.
Philadelphia Normal School,
January, 1900.
.SEPTEMBER
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
By may HAGGENBOTHAM
Late Director of Domestic Science and Art Courses at Drexel
Institute, Puiladelphia
Sometime Assistant Superintendent of Public Sohools
OF Philadelphia
CHAPTER I
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
By may HAGGENBOTHAM
" Our life can never be complete, never be rational or righteous,
until it is beautiful. Only when every foul alley, every noxious home,
every vulgar structure, and every base fashion is banished from the
city and over all is spread the mantle of health and beauty, only then
can . .. . whatever city be ours be indeed the city of God."
From "A More Beautiful Public Life," by Edwin D. Mead.
The public school is responsible for the nurture and devel-
opment of every civic virtue. The feeling for beauty is one
of these virtues.
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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Those who can spend two consecutive years of two hours a week are advised to follow in the second year a course something like the following : —
XXll INTRODUCTION
September. — Review the Chemistry of Foods and Principles of Cooking.
October and November. — Starchy Foods and How to Cook Them.
December. — Proteids and How to Cook Them.
January. — Fish, Oysters, arid Salad.
February. — Cake and Pastry:
March. — Invalid Cooking.
April. — Advanced Laundry Work.
May. — House Cleaning and Household Pests.
June. — Advanced Mending and Sewing.
Related Work : Reading. — The Eeader accompanying this manual provides abundant reading matter. But with the aid of the typewriter and mimeograph, or even with the mimeograph alone, the intelligent teacher can provide her class with additional material by following up the numerous references, particularly to the various magazines.
Language. — Or she may use these same sources of material for her own information, imparting it to the children in oral language lessons. Carefully written exercises should follow all completed subjects.
It goes without saying in these progressive days, all new words belong to the next spelling lesson.
Arithmetic. — This is somewhat carefully worked out in the chapter on " Foods." Similar work may be done in connection with many of the other subjects. Do not fall into the prevalent error of thinking that in using the word "fish " in an arithmetical problem you are correlating arithmetic and domestic science ! The problem must be real, not sham, and the relationship intrinsic, not artificial. Probably the
INTRODUCTION XXlli
best opportunity for this applied arithmetic may be found in tlie planning and equipment of the rooms. The dimensions, areas, and costs are questions that must be solved by some. Why not by the pupils as well as the teacher ?
In conclusion I should like to say that if the grade teacher feels as much interest and gathers as much knowledge in reading this volume as I did in reading each separate manuscript, as it came to my hands, then the mission of the book will be accomplished, and the day is near at hand when every school child in the land will be guided by intelligent hands over the threshold of that earthly Paradise, a clean, restful, beautiful home.
But remember,
" It takes a Mind to drive the Body Even to a cleaner sty ! "
L. L. W. WILSON.
Philadelphia Normal School, January, 1900.
.SEPTEMBER
By may HAGGENBOTHAM
Late Director of Domestic Science and Art Courses at Drexel
Institute, Puiladelphia
Sometime Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools
OF Philadelphia
CHAPTER I
By may HAGGENBOTHAM
" Our life can never be complete, never be rational or righteous, until it is beautiful. Only when every foul alley, every noxious home, every vulgar structure, and every base fashion is banished from the city and over all is spread the mantle of health and beauty, only then can . .. . whatever city be ours be indeed the city of God."
From "A More Beautiful Public Life," by Edwin D. Mead.
The public school is responsible for the nurture and development of every civic virtue. The feeling for beauty is one of these virtues.