The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-08
CHICAGO SCHOOLS

O411OAUO NO44OO1N
Will Turn Out Graduates in House
| Keeping.
Chicago, Sept S.-Perfect house
keepers-lacking only in one detail
a housewife be graduated from the
public schools soon, if the aims Of the
board of education are attained.
In fact, it is the hope of the school
authorities that a diploma will far
outclass beauty, wit, and other matri-
monial attributes, putting the gradu-
ates in class by themselves. The only
! anxiety is whether the schools can
graduate ideal housekeepers fast en-
ough to keep up with the demand.
| The expectation Of the board mem
bers is based On a course Of study
in cooking and sewing, completed
yesterday by R. M. Smith, supervisor
of the manual training and household
arts department, after a years wrk.
In brief, after the Chicago public
school girls of the seventh and eighth
grades have successfully completed
these courses they will know:
| How to arrange and care for a
kitchen.
How to select, use, and care for
kitchen utensils.
What kind Of fuel to use in cooking
What kinds of foods to cook and
| how to cook them
The effect of the different foods on
digestion.
What foods are fat producing and
what foods are heat producing.
How to buy foods with the greatest
possible economy.
How to write bills of fare that shall
right proportion of different foods.
How to keep their homes sanitary.
How to care for the plumbing.
How to darn socks.
HOW W pdtCu tIOuSeIS.
How to make their own dresses.
The new courses of study We're CIV
en- out to the teachers in the differ
ent branches at a meeting in the
rooms of the board of education yes
terday. They are the result of inves-
legations made by Supervisor Smith
of the courses of study in use in
schools of household arts, domestic
science, and manual training all over
the country.
Cooking and physiology will be
taught together by the new system.
First, the beginner must study the
human body, its digestive functions,
and the wearing out and the repairing
of the tissues. The next step will be
to study what rebuilding materials
the body needs and what foods con-
tain the most nourishment and are the
most digestible -what are cheat CIV
ers' and what are "fesh formers. -
Then the pupils will be taught the
proper arrangement and care of the
kitchen and instructed in the use of
the various utensils. They will be
taught to practice economy in both
buying and using food.
When the students have mastered
the details of foods and the operation
of the kitchen they will begin the ac-
tual. study of cooking. How to ar
range attractive bills of fare and at
the same time a healthful dietary will
be taught. The best diet for the sick
will be explained and special stress
will be laid upon infant feeding.
House sanitation, including the chem
istry Of house cleaning, will be the
next branch taken up. Special atten-
ton will be paid to the table setting
and serving and the care of linen
china, silver, and brass.
But other branches Of housekeeping
will not be ignored. The instruction
given to the classes in sewing will
include the use of needles, thread
thimbles, scissors, tape measure, and
the emery After this the different
kinds of cloth will be explained, with
the process Of weaving. Next the pu-
pills will be taught all the kinds OF
stitches. After they have mastered
them they will be taught how to patch
to make buttonholes, to sew on but.
tons, to darn, and to hemstitch. Their
thew will ha oIyen inStruc fionS In ont.