This year's course requires home work in the Avay of sewing,
cooking, collecting illustrative material of many kinds; making
lists of foods, of costs of all sorts, of home-making materials, col-
lecting ideas from older people as to taxes, insurance, cost of
living, ways of managing, laws, markets, transportation and
savings accounts. This will be of interest to parents also. Much
of the work planned can not be taught by young teacher. She
must have the aid of intelligent mothers, or trained nurses.
1. Enrollment.
Evolution of house and meaning of home in outline. Defini-
tion of Home Economics.
3. Review the work in Domestic Art in outline.
Teach with illustrations — real rooms. Pictures vut by each
student and pasted.
2. Review the work in Domestic Science in outline.
Teach with illustrations — real rooms. Pictures cut by each
student and pasted. Collections made.
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II.
1. Duties of the home-maker : care and training of children,
management of order and health in the home, spending of the
income wisely, feeding and clothing the family, entertaining
friends, etc.
2. Making a floor plan of the house : arrangement of rooms
for health, convenience and comfort.
3. Kitchen and its care. Latticed porch outside of kitchen
for work. Floors, kind of wood; floor coverings. Walls, finish
and color. "Windows, screened all over, open top and bottom;
woodwork varnished. All furnishings should be taught as to
kinds on the market, cost, construction and care.
in.
1. Sinks and plumbing. Refrigerator. Stoves, drafts, prin-
ciple of construction. Need of plain finish. Cupboard and
kitchen cabinet. Arrangement of dishes and separation of foods.
Need of tin, glass or earthen containers with covers.
Kitchen table: height to suit worker, extra shelf below and
extra drawers and hooks on end if needed.
Garbage can with cover, and disposal of waste.
Chairs substantial and comfortable.
2. Utensils, substantial. Not easily broken. Beauty of de-
sign not overlooked. Lists of articles needed, classified according
to processes.
3. Labor-saving devices : washing machines, gas, alcohol and
charcoal irons, mangles, dishwashers, fireless cookers, carpet
sweepers. Vacuum cleaners.
IV.
1. Cleansing agents and their composition. Make collection
for painted wood, for sinks, for floors, for metals, knives and
forks.
Sweeping : brooms and brushes. Dusting : cheesecloth and
floor mops "boiled in oil."
3. Materials for dish cloths and towels. Washing and sun-
ning. Order of work in washing dishes. Necessity of hot water.
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Second Month — November.
I.
1. Dining room. East room preferable. Miist be cheery.
May serve as living room by using different cover on table after
each meal. Plenty of light and air. Decoration of walls and
ceiling. Good spacing, beautiful colors, no overcrowding. If
pictures, they should be hung on eye level, flat on wall, by two
cords from molding. Read article in Industrial Arts Magazine,
April or May, 1914 — colors.
2. Floor coverings: art squares, matting eltox. Curtains:
mull or other washable material, hung straight, but not shutting
out the views.
3. Furniture : kinds most suitable. Cost. Durability.
Design. Color. Place in room — on floor plan.
n.
1. Silver. Design and quantity. Cost. Care.
2. China and glass.
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Presented as published in 1915. 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
This year's course requires home work in the way of sewing, cooking, collecting illustrative material of many kinds; making lists of foods, of costs of all sorts, of home-making materials, collecting ideas from older people as to taxes, insurance, cost of living, ways of managing, laws, markets, transportation and savings accounts. This will be of interest to parents also. Much of the work planned can not be taught by young teacher. She must have the aid of intelligent mothers, or trained nurses.
1. Enrollment.
Evolution of house and meaning of home in outline. Definition of Home Economics.
3. Review the work in Domestic Art in outline.
Teach with illustrations — real rooms. Pictures cut by each student and pasted.
2. Review the work in Domestic Science in outline. Teach with illustrations — real rooms. Pictures cut by each
student and pasted. Collections made.
1. Duties of the home-maker : care and training of children, management of order and health in the home, spending of the income wisely, feeding and clothing the family, entertaining friends, etc.
2. Making a floor plan of the house : arrangement of rooms for health, convenience and comfort.
3. Kitchen and its care. Latticed porch outside of kitchen for work. Floors, kind of wood; floor coverings. Walls, finish and color. "Windows, screened all over, open top and bottom; woodwork varnished. All furnishings should be taught as to kinds on the market, cost, construction and care.
in.
1. Sinks and plumbing. Refrigerator. Stoves, drafts, principle of construction. Need of plain finish. Cupboard and kitchen cabinet. Arrangement of dishes and separation of foods. Need of tin, glass or earthen containers with covers.
Kitchen table: height to suit worker, extra shelf below and extra drawers and hooks on end if needed.
Garbage can with cover, and disposal of waste. Chairs substantial and comfortable.
2. Utensils, substantial. Not easily broken. Beauty of design not overlooked. Lists of articles needed, classified according to processes.
3. Labor-saving devices : washing machines, gas, alcohol and charcoal irons, mangles, dishwashers, fireless cookers, carpet sweepers. Vacuum cleaners.
1. Cleansing agents and their composition. Make collection for painted wood, for sinks, for floors, for metals, knives and forks.
Sweeping : brooms and brushes. Dusting : cheesecloth and floor mops "boiled in oil."
3. Materials for dish cloths and towels. Washing and sunning. Order of work in washing dishes. Necessity of hot water.
Second Month — November.
1. Dining room. East room preferable. Miist be cheery. May serve as living room by using different cover on table after each meal. Plenty of light and air. Decoration of walls and ceiling. Good spacing, beautiful colors, no overcrowding. If pictures, they should be hung on eye level, flat on wall, by two cords from molding. Read article in Industrial Arts Magazine, April or May, 1914 — colors.
2. Floor coverings: art squares, matting, linoleum. Curtains: mull or other washable material, hung straight, but not shutting out the views.
3. Furniture : kinds most suitable. Cost. Durability. Design. Color. Place in room — on floor plan.
n.
1. Silver. Design and quantity. Cost. Care.
2. China and glass.