Newark post., 1912-05-08
THE GIRL AND THE HIGH SCHOOL

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will drill the girls in correct sitting.
standing, walking. running. and in
addition will give orthopedic treat
ment to correct individual ills.
Baths will be available for all and
will be enforced where necessary.
and there need be no doubt about
finding numerous eases for this sal
utary type of pedagogics. Demon
Strations Of correct clothing will be
given, with particular attention to
corsets and shoes. In this connec-
tion it is interesting to note that
during three years in a school of
two thousand girls, every single one
Of the twenty-five cases where a
girl has fallen down stairs she has
been wearing high-heeled shoes. In
deed. while it may sound like pater-
naliSm, there is strong ground for
maintaining that the schhool should
prohibit the more fragrant viola
tionS Of good sense and modestv in
the form of low-necked dresses.
transparencies, high-heeled shoes,
tight lacing. and complexions of the
white that never was on land or sea.
1.-The school luncheon. run on a
cooperative plan, will provide
rood. nutritious food at d moderate
price. and will refuse to furnish
anything delcterious to the health
ot the growing Girl. Thus it will
trud to establish correct habits Of
diet and service as an example of
the poS~ibilityofs ofsecrring good food
1T a moderate price. But the school
will 90 much farther than the
luncheon; it will, as a second essen-
tiHI Of its course. give to every girl
- thorough and systematic training
t. 1t her for efficiency in the home.
"Ilcrc are few pertinent facts:
The percentage Of pupils studying
some IF the more important sub
icrts in S097 public high schools of
the United States in the year 1909
IL is stated by the Commissioner OF
Education as follows:
Latin. French and German. 50. 81
Algebra and Geometry. .Sl.12
English Literature. .oIO9
ttetOflc ......... '.'... "
history .... .o'.oo
Domestic Economy-including
sewing. cooking and house
hold economies ........... BIS
1.-The latest available census re-
pGrts show that of women between
the ages Of twenty and twenty-four
more than seventy-tive per cent are
married. If. in the light of this
fact. We agree that the public is
putting its money into the high
schools that its children may there
receive the best possible training
for the lives they are to live.
doesn't our present practice in the
education Of girls look like going
from New York to California by
way Of Cape Horn?
Every girl should be taught
how to distinguish between fresh
and storage eggs. how to use oleO-
margarine when butter scars to
fifty cents a pound, how to cook the
cheaper cuts Of meat. how to utilize
the nutritious leftovers that the
hired girl dumps into the garbage.
In the chemistry clasSses the girl
should learn to detect preserva-
tivcS. aduIterants and colorings: to
distinguish between honest pre-
serves and rotten fruit pulp, fla
vorrd and colored with coal tar; to
discard fruits bleached with sui.
phuouS acid: to remove spots and
stains from various fabrics, and a
thoa>amd other useful scientific APP
plirati0nS.
It does seem strange that phys
ic> and chemistry have 50 long been
TAUGHT on Il purely academic basis
%eucralIy remote from all possible
u>" The laws Of heat and light are
not the less science because they are
Illustrated bv the methods of heat
INC and lighting house. their most
universal application; the chemical
experiment by which gelatine is de-
tectrd in milk as substitute for
tn" cream that has been removed IS
quite rs educational as the reaction
Of IICI and lIn2Oa. And the
beauty Of this approach to science
is that it works a marvellous trans