Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-11-08
DOMESTIC SCIENCE TAUGHT.
Stanton School Traing Girls For
Industrial Usefulness.

Nncn stanton tOl0AC0 IttNAt% 0%AC~A
on Clay street opened for the scho-
latsic year a month ago on october 1,
| it opened under new regime which,
after a month 5 trial has proved emf
nently successful TO make IL q perma-
nent departure.
Prot Harry Il. Wallis, superinten-
dent OF public instruction in Anne
Arundel county. with an fye 70 the
| betterment of stanton school, and in
cidentally the community, inaugurat-
ed 4 scheme for having Domestic
Science taught AZ this school, and
adopted methods used only in few
schools in this State, hut chiefly IN
use in the public schools Of The North
and West That these methods are
worth while and will tell for time 70
come remain to be seen, but an IL
lustration of them for one month
suggests their praoticabilty.
The school for colored children Is
ably and eflieiently managed by the
principal, j.. b. Douglass, who teach IS
the Seventh Grade, and has the other
six in good working order. The
school has an attendance of 300 color
ed children, but the attendance should
be twice that number. The building
| is large with commodious class rooms
and Railways, high ceilings. well
lighted and ventilated and as clean
as a new pin.
The Kindergarten class contains ~
pupils and is taught by Miss Irine
Stewart; the first grade has 81, taught
by Miss Anna Wells second grade, 80,
Henry Carroll, teacher third grade, Us
Miss Butler, teacher fourth grade, is
taught by Miss Bishop. fifth grade by
Miss Watkins, sixth grade by Mrs.
Snowden and seventh grade by the
principal But aside from the routine
school work is the great industrial
training the colorod children receive.
At the head of the department Of
domestic science is Miss f. v. Ken
nedy.a graduate OF the Manual Train
ing School at Washington. She is
devoted to the work and when the
school was visited yesterday by a rep
resentative of the Capital, Miss Ken
nedy was giving q lesson in cooking
oatmeal.
In an upper large room, which has
been converted into a kitchen, there is
cook stove. cooking utensils, a
safe for dishes and long tables.
The class receiving instruction was
from the fourth grade. The recipe
was written on the blackboard, and
the children copied il. The girls
looked neat in blue gingham dresses,
white aprons and white caps. Miss
Kennedy gave brief lecture on
starch and the effect that hot and cold
water has on it. She talked of the
starchy foods, and told about their
value in human economy. The schol-
ars consulted their biographies to
find out where the food stuffs grow,
thus correlating geography with cook
ing in this work of industrial training.
Cereals were taken as a basis of
starchy foods and the girls set about
cooking oatmeal scientifically, and
after boiling it forty five minutes, the
standard time, the oatmeal was served
with milk and sugar and the girls en-
| ioyed a specimen OF their own cooking.
Saucers and spoons were collected and
| the dishes washed and rinsed, the
| tables scrubbed and tea towels wash
| ed, for it is a part of domestic science
| TO clean up after the cooking is done.
| The girls enjoy the cooking school,
and the new regime is an incentive
| for many older scholars who have
dropped to come back to school
Everything is measured, tasted and
smelled, and all foods are cooked as
| to method and time. The process of
| making tea scientifically has created
a family row in some homes, some
| colored mothers who throw handful
of tea in the pot and let it boil and
| boil, tell the children they guess
tney know how to make tea Jest as
| good as that new tangled teacher.
| Sewing is also taught and machine
has been provided. The girls have
learned to baste evenly, unevenly
and the combination basting. The
work is very good.
The school authorities ought t
take hold of this new training of the
coIored girls and encourage the work,
which speaks for itself. The schoo
is we'll disciplined under Principal
Douglass and the children are orderly
and we'll behaved. The teacher of do
nestle science hopes to broaden Tho
/ scope of her work, and at the close o.
the year the public may see for them
| selves what has been accomplished.