Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

NENEkA AL VIEW vi
ual training course gives the most
practical instruction of any or the
courses and is very popular with those
who wish to become proficient In the
every day duties of the home, at the
same time that they are acquiring "A
good, general education. The three
year domestic science course is favor
tie with the young women who are bet
ter prepared to enter, aud VINO can
SPEND more time ut school. High
school studies are carried on including
strong courses In chemistry and physl-
ology. Instruction In personal ny
giene, home nursing, and emergency
work Is given In this course,
as well as thorough training IN
practical cookery, with special atten-
ton to its underlying principles. The
composition OF foods and the principles
OF nutrition are studied. Training In
needework, muslin sewing and dress
making, and the study Of textiles Is
an important and popular feature of
the course. Upon the completion OF this
course the student receives certllicate
and Is entitled to enter the sophomore
year Of the college cours.
The four year college course leads to
the bachelors degree, and is the ideal
course for all bright, earnest young
women who desire the culture and
scholarship given by broad, general
education; one In accordance with the
modern idea that a woman should be
educated toward home life and not
away from It. This college course in
cludes all the work In arts and sciences
that Is usually given in Institutions
of higher learning. with strong cours-
IS in bacteriology and chemistry of
foods and cookery, that are of great
value to the skilled housekeeper or to
the teacher of domestic science. Cours-
| es In hygiene, sanitation and household
economics are also given, together with
special winter and summer school
| courses.
In view OF numerous requests for def
| mite Information concerning the do
nestle science work, 1t seems advsa-
| BILE to explain with some detail the
| questions and operations with which
| these young women are actually con-
cerncd, They study all kinds OF foods,
| their origin composition, and prepar-
alton for the market. their comparative
| value, and the way in which they nour-
| ish the body. Cooking is carefully stud
| led, both in theory and In practise.
| First is discussed the management and
economy OF the range then, in the
| kitchen laboratory, the student puts
| these principles into practise by cook
| ing meats and vegetables and by MAX
| ing variety Of soups, meat sauces, and
| side dishes. In bread work she learns
| to make yeast white and graham
| bread, rolls, buns, baking powder and
soda biscuits, mullins. gems. etc, In
pastry work, she makes variety Of
| loaf and layer cakes cookies, fried
| anlfag pttHAinuu nina nd Il tgi,
| es. Many varieties of rfuits are put
| up in such n way as TO keep shape, coll
or, and flavor, so they win present an
| attractive and appetlzlng appearance
| on the table. A lunch, or rather a
| three course home dinner, rs served by
| the cooking classes daily during the
| winter, and each young woman learns
| to set the table neatly and dalntily.
| 10 preside as hostess, and TO wait up
on the table in Il quick, def manner,
Later in the course each student is
required to plan and serve a dinner TO
| certain number OF guests. She Is
| given definite sum of money, does her
| own marketing, prepares each dish, and
| serves her guests with the best dinner
| she can provide with that sum. Fur
Their along in the course, she serves a
| dainty and somewhat elaborate high
tea, with color scheme of her own de-
| Ylslng The skill In planning, market
| ing and serving gained In this way, is
Of course invaluable to the housekeep-
| er.
In laundering. the student begins with
| elementary instruction concerning soft
| and hard water, washing powders,
| soaps blueing, etc. She then has praC-
tlse work with various garments of diff
! ferent materials, and with table linen,
| and learns the process of staff starch-
| ing and polishing collars and cuffs.
| In the sewing room, the young wo-
man learns all the hand stitches used
In any line OF sewing, and makes neat
book Of her models. The next work Is
to make dainty muslin underwear fol-
lowed by dress OF washable material,
| cut by pattern. Draughting from
measurements is then learned, and pa
per models put together before cloth Il
cut Practise In general dressmaking
follows, including waists. skirts. tailor
made suits. tea gowns, and evening
dresses. The third year girls in the
manual training coures cut NJ and
make their graduating gowns without
assistance
So thorough and practical is the in
structlon given that when n young wo-
man has completed the course she can
be self-supporting II she chooses to con-
tlnue work in sewing or dressmaking;
or II she has the ability to explain
what she herself understands. she can
do excellent work ms instructor In some
similar department Numbers Of the
students who have completed this
] course are doing excellent work In such