The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-30
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
IN THE SCHOOLS
Letter Written by Girls Of TayIorviIle,
H., School on the
Subject.


The Gate City for publication and will
no doubt be read with interest by the
girls of the public schools. The High
school boys have their manual train
ing room, but the girls of the schools
have nothing of the sort here.
The following letter was recently
written by group of sixth grade girls
of the schools of Taylorville, H., to
the county superintendent of the
county who had been instrumental in
stimulating modest beginning in the
line of domestic science in that coun-
ty:
My Dear Miss Barber: We are 60
ing to write you full report of our
cooking for the past year. First of
all We want to tell you how we like
it. We even stay at home from roller
skating to do our arithmetic and ge
ography SO we will have time to cook
and sew in school The boys say
cooking is more fun than Christmas.
We have our cooking lessons every
other Friday afternoon from 1915 to
3:4o and our sewing lessons o.. each
Wednesday, if we have no lessons to
make up.
We tried attaching tube from a
gas jet in plate. That did very we'll
for the things we boiled, but the
| things baked too slowly. so one of the
boys brought three-hole gasoline
/ stove.
! While we were having the United
States in history we had six lessons
on the different ways of preparing
! corn: each time four girls and two
boys had charge of the work. And
while the things were cooking three
pupils previously selected by Miss Por-
terrified told us what corn would dc
for each part of our system and the
different things corn contains.
The boys always want to do this
part. but we do not let them do it all
for we think We can write !; story as
well as they.
We cooked, first, escalloped corn;
second, hominy: third. fritters; fourth
corn oysters: fifth. corn pudding
sixth. corn bread, Then we had foul
lessons on wheat.
While we were studying Europe We
planned to have six lessons on the pc
tato, but only had three. Willie We
were studying Russia we had lessor
in making tapioca pudding.
think we had a better time tina
dav than any other. There were
twenty-three girls and eleven boy.
present at this lesson. Miss Porter
field asked us to try the same recipe
at home and report our success the
following Monday morning for open
ing exercises. Seventeen of the girl!
and seven of the boys tried it at home
Lois Van Hooser played with the bah.
and let hers scorch.
Elmer Meineike forgot how much
milk to put in and made his too stiff
Oscar Quick likes things sweet. 81
he put in too much sugar and tina
made the eggs and milk separate.
Denise Mot said her papa said i
was the best pudding he had eater
since her mamma died.
When we we're studying Italy WI
cooked macaroni and cheese, but no
MANY of us liked that. Some Of IL
made it at home and our mother
5 liked it.
:, The dav we made biscuits we in
, yited the teachers in after they ha
t dismissed their pupils and While the
were here, two of the seventh grad
bovs came to the door and hande'
, Miss Porterfield a petition signed D.
all the boys in their room excepting
! one. asking that they might be invite
to the next lesson, and said II sh
/ would they would give her no NOR
trouble in music or drawing during tn
: rest of the year.
, Two weeks from that day we invite
+ them and made candy and my. it too
lot, We made it four times. W
I found out a lot about sugar In thi
;. lesson: about how it made heat an
, all that. We know why it Is tina
a we would rather make candy on
, winter day than on a summer evening
! Then Miss Porterfield had Mr.!
. Hogan, the president of the Woman
, club. come up and she gave us som
, lessons on cooking and serving Tor II
ivalids. The incest thing she taugh
us was how to make egg toast.
We wish you could have been wit
. ms at some of our lessons. She toll
. us the best and easiest way to kee