The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-06-18
FIRST DISTRICT SCHOLARSHIP


decide the winner of domestic scienc
scholarship given to the Academy 9
Idaho at Pocatello; and the appointe
committee consisting Of Mrs. Stand
rod, Mrs. Pease and Miss Nicols, eacl
finding obstacles In the way to pre-
vent attendance, new committee 0
award was selected. The new mem
bers consisted of DR.. Minnie Howard
Mrs. Madden and Mrs Byrd Trego
each OF which tried to perform he
duty conscienciously and well whel
they gave the honors to Miss Eleano,
Jones of Malad. Miss Agnes Lant
received one vote from the committed
and Miss Stella Justice received |
unanimous vote of honorable men
ton. All the work on exhibition
showed that marked attention hat
been given by both instructor and
pupils. Too much cannot be brought
to bear on the fact the Academy Of
Idaho is doing excellent work in this
department. An award committee
however finds itself handicapped tc
degree Of embarrassment because
no instructions are given them by
the district as to a method OF pro
ceeding with the conditions they meet
when the day of inspection comes. II
is hoped the following brief statement
will set the club women Of the dis
trict to thinking OF a definite plan to
be adopted at the coming met at
Idaho Falls In September.
The domestic science course con-
sists Of two years study in sewing,
basket weaving and cooking, at least
this work was on exhibition. The
work Of the first year consisted Of a
set of machine made garments and
a garment finished entirely by hand,
the only exception to this last was
In the work Of Miss Jones, who ex-
hibited as hand work a set Of hemed
and initiated table linen, both cloth
and napkins. The work was beauti-
fully executed and the young needle+
woman deserved high honors for her
patience and skill, but the question
arose as to the desire of the dis
trict to consider the only embroidery
work on exhibition as mark Of
award, or should the selection be con-
fined to finished garment.
The only sewing exhibited in the
second years course was a finished
dress Of light weight cotton ma
terial, showing both hand and ma
chine work Certain garments are
from drafted patterns done by the
worker, others are from drafted pat
terms. Each pupil of the first year
also has grade book on exhibition.
This book tells in the language Of the
pupil about certain stitches, cores,
seams patches and illustrates with a
piece of work pasted on the leaf just
how the work is done. OF course the
second year girl has had all Of this
work, but 1t is not on exhibition and
cannot be EXAMINED by the commit
tee. Miss Stella Justice received the
award last year and honorable men
ton for her second years work.
Would she have been Eligible for the
award this year? Her grade was "a
per cent which proved the highest in
the class, Miss Jones following with
80 per cent.
The cooking exhibit was beautiful
ly arranged tables of tempting look
Ing dishes. One table contained a
full breakfast, another lunch and
the third all the dishes for full
course dinner. The committee was
only allowed to look at the entire
they could neither
break bread nor taste 1t. Each girl
In the class had prepared one or more
Df the dishes.
There were 10 girls in the class
with grades from 70 per cent to "a
per cent. Four girls were not con-
sidered by the committee because of
in various ways, others
because their grade was below 80 per
cent. Miss Walker has proved by
her work that she is thorough in
,tructor in both sewing and cooking.
The Manual Training work was not
by this committee and the
winner of the prize is not known.
This SCHOLARSHIP business should be
gone over in each club be-
ore the next district meet and con-
Illusions formed as to requirements
II both the district and the contest
lnts.
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