Gilpin observer., 1909-04-29
HOUSEKEEPERS'
COLLEGE COURSE
PRACTICAL TRAINING IN DoMES-
TIC SCIENCE AT COLORADO
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,.
GOOD COOKING TAUGHT
hoUsEkEEPERs' SHORT COURSES
GIVEN IN DIFFERENT SEC
TIoNS OF THE STATE.

Miss Mary F. Rausch is head of the
domestic science department of the
Colorado Agricultural College at Fort
Collins. She has three assistants
throughout the year and two others
for the Housekeepers' Short Courses
that are held outside the college. The
building cost $4.5O0; the equipment is
valued at $2,58S, and it cost $9,732 to
operate the department for the two
years ending November 80, 1908. The
enrolment in all classes for the year
ending March /, 1909, was 355.
The girls are taught in cooking to
prepare good meals at low cost, nice
ly cooked and daintily served. They
visit markets, mills and canning fac
tories. Dietaries are made to suit diff
ferent conditions, both in health and
disease. Half term is given to the
preparation and serving of dishes for
invalids, infants, and children.
Nearly year is spent in the actual
work of cooking. the student hersel:
preparing soups, meats, eggs, vege-
tables, fruits. pastry, salads, desserts,
pickles, preserves, jellies, and ices.
Marketing is carefully studied. Each
girl is required to do practical work
in house cleaning and in keeping
household accounts.
Each young woman, before finishing
the course, must plan, prepare, and
serve meals at limited expense, the
food to be ample in quality, the cook
ing good, and the serving tasteful. Be-
l., ,1c hot hoy
been given recently:
Breakfast. 2 courses, for 6 peo-
pie, cost $O.o0
Luncheon, 3 courses, for people,
cost l.oo
Luncheon. courses, for 7 people.
cost 1.OV
Supper, 2 courses, for people,
cost l.OO
Dinner, courses, for Z people.
cost .......... ....... LOU
The students receive thorough in
struction in sewing. both hand
and machine; also in cutting.
fitting, making, darning, patch
Ing, mending, selecting materials,
millinery and embroidery. In ad-
vanced classes each girl buys the
materials, cuts, fits and makes her
underclothing. suits and hats.
Each young woman designs and
makes her graduating gown, and can
not exceed an expense of so. The
graduating gowns for the class of 1908
cost from 1886 to $40 each. including
material and trimming. They were
much admired.
In laundering, the girls follow the
methods practical for the average
home and are taught the reasons for
each practice. they consider laundry
equipment and materials. In home
sanitation they are given practical in
formation on the selection of build
ing site, plan and care of the cellar,
water supply. plumbing. drainage.
heating, lighting and ventilation. They
are instructed in the use of disinfect-
ants and deodorants.
Thorough instruction is given in
home nursing, including lectures by
trained nurses and physicians. and
visits to hospitals. Personal hygiene
and the hygiene of childhood are
studied for full term. House build
ing and furnishing is treated from
economic. sanitary and artistic stand
points.
Women throughout the state share
in the benefits from this department
Housekeepers' short courses of five
days each are held at different places
in the state, at which three instruc
tors from the Domestic Science de
partment give practical work in
housekeeping along the same lines as
} those given at the college. Usually
the girls from the high school attend
} these courses with their mothers. The
enrolment at these courses last yeai
was 1904. and this year 1,210. II
the summer the teachers from this
department give lectures at the
farmers institutes.
Miss Rausch is chairman OF the
domestic science sections of the Stat,
Teachers Association and the Stat,
Federated Women's Clubs. and
through the schools and the clubs, 1,
forwarding the movement to put do
nestle science into all the publ,
schools. She has prepared an outline
, of thirty lessons in domestic scienc,
for schools.
A bulletin. Cooking in High Alti
tudes." is being prepared. 1t give
| the results Of Miss Rauschs fourteen
, years work In cooking at attitudes o
5000 feet and upward-four years u
an altitude Of $500 feet.