The new era., 1909-05-13
HOUSEKEEPERS'
COLLEGE COURSE
PRACTICAL TRAINING IN DoMEo.
TIC SCIENCE AT COLORADO
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
GOOD COOKING TAUGHT
housEkEEPERs's SHORT COURSES
GIVEN IN DIFFERENT SEC
TloNs 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 s4,500; the equipment is
valued at $2,5S8, and 1t 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 1, 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 herse:
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-
low are samples Of meals that have
been given recently:
Breakfast, 2 courses, for 6 peo-
pie, cost ................ $U.oV
Luncheon, courses, for people,
cost 1.OU
Luncheon, 4 courses, for people,
cost 1.OU
Supper, courses, for Z people,
COST l.V0
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 $40. The
| graduating gowns for the class Of 1908
cost from $5.35 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 homo
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 ia
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 year
was 1.034, and this year 1,210. In
the summer the teachers from this
department give lectures at the
farmers institutes.
Miss Rausch is chairman of the
domestic science sections of the State
! Teachers Association and the State
Federated Women's Clubs. and.
through the schools and the clubs, is
forwarding the movement to put do
nestle science into all the public
schools. She has prepared an outline
of thirty lessons in domestic science
for schools.
A bulletin, Cooking in High Alti-
tudes," is being prepared. 1t gives
the results of Miss Rausch's fourteen
years work in cooking at attitudes OF
5000 feet and upward-four years at
an altitude of $500 feet.
Best Soil for Onions.