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UUUNENl I'D II
SCHOOL COURSE
Board of Education Will Teach
Girls Domestic Economy Be-
ginning Next Week
EMPLOY SPECIAL
TEACHER FOR THE WORK

Come, High School girls Don your
ginghams and sleeve protectors and
prepare for duties in the kitchen and
the home With the reopening OF the
school term on next Tuesday the
girls will enter upon new course of
study, namely a domestic science
course which was decided upon at the
meeting Of the Board Of Education
last evening.
While this new course which will
include instruction in domestic and
social economics. house and business
MANAGEMENT, food selection and val
uation as applied to the care OF the
sick and that Of the children and So
cial duties of a woman OF home,
is expected to prove most educational
to the feminine enrolment OF the pub
lie schools, It will not be without its
bright side for the boys, as the girls
are to cook the dainty lunches which
will be served to the pupils OF the
High School at the daily lunch hour
A detailed report Of the necessity OF
such a course for the instruction OF
the girls of the High School was sub
mitted to the Board by the manual
training committee and It was decided
TO commence the studies In the art of
home making with the reopening OF
the schools on January 3.
Miss Jensie V. Gisling will be en-
ployed at a salary of $1,000 a year
TO instruct the girls in the latest ad-
dition to the schools efficient course
Of education.
The report as submitted by the
manual training committee follows:
Wilmington, Del, Dec, 26, 1910.
To the Board Of Education, Whining
ton, Del
Gentlemen: The function of the
public school was baslcally, from itB
inception the laying Of a sure founda-
ton in those elements of knowledge
which people need to discharge read
lily and efficiently all the duties and
responsibilities of every day life; but
modern conditions impose upon Il the
necessity for providing the youth Of
both sexes such instruction and train
ing in industrial and related lines Of
educational effort as will enable them
to become efficient, industrial, social
and economic factors In the COM
munity in which they may live.
The Board Of Education a number
of years ago very wisely recognized
the need Of giving the boys of the
| High School courses in manual train
ing which would bring them into re.
lation with some of the industrial
aspects of real life, but we have moi
recognized the important factor wo'
man is In the home as a business or
ganization and have therefore failed
to provide means for training foi
efficiency In the home, but at thil
time. believing that the making o
home tests the worth of the famil.
as a business organization, fixes q
character as a social unit and deter
mines its power as an ethical forci
your committee In order 20 continu
the good work of former boards, an
to bring our schools abreast of thos
Of other progressive communities
would make the following recon
mendations, viz:
1. That a domestic science depart
ment for girls be organized in tn
Wilmington High School, which shal
be coordinate with the boys manua
training department, in which shal
be taught the domestic arts, such a
home and social economics, hous
management and business manage
ment of the home, food study an
preparation, selection and care @
food materials, food values, dietetic
as applied to the sick and care q
children, problems of home mainten
ance. social duties and opportunitie
of the home. etc.
Q That the domestic science d.
partment shall be organized az Ii
opening Of the spring term in Eel
ruary. 1911, and that 1t shall there
: after have full charge Of the lunc
room and shall furnish the noon hot
lunch to the pupils Of the high schoc
3. That a competent, trained an
experienced director be employed
E eouip. organize and conduct said d.
partment under the direction and mai
agement Of the superintendent
schools.
4 That the sewing department
the primary and grammar schools al
the manual training department IN u
High School shall be reorganized vi
der the direction of the superintendel
of schools.
D. / nat III the AFlA baiAHaNA "a -
manual training department instru
ton in the forge shop shall be omitt'
after the close of the present scho
year.
s. That a competent supervisor
= manual arts and drawing for all
the schools be employed to take chars
> of the work at the opening Of the ia
term in September, 1911.
Z. That on and after January
1911, all the duties and powers
supervision and management now e
ercised in the primary and the grar
mar schools by the superintende
shall in like manner be exercised
him in the High School.
| Respectfully submitted,
Samuel II. Baynard,
Thomas J. Sullivan,
w. ]. Burton,
Thomas o. Cooper,
Fvon a. ShortlidRe