The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22
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 feathers and other pretty things and make hat to go on their pretty | heads that will be the equal of any $40 creation that comes from gay Paree or any other foreign fashion center where such arrangements are designed. I don't know whether degree will be given the young women who grad nate from the Louie Compton seminary 1 in the domestic arts department or not, | although l presume it will. and right now I suggest that when this delectable | degree is conferred 1t be created espec- ially for them, and shall read; M. H."
 Which signifies:
 "Matron of Homecraft'' And here is another bit of glad news | for lovelorn swains or perhaps, more &C., curately, swains who would be lovelorn. | They can go right ahead and pay a visit | 10 the seminary and out of the classes (without letting anybody know it) pick cut" the girl they want and Just wait | for her to finish the course in domestic arts and let her get her degree, and then | 'rop the question"
 | In other worlds
 They can Hook them over'' (and let me say right here they are all pretty
 
 | then just silently stealy away like the l Arabs, and cuddle up their thoughts of 1 how this particular girl is going to pre- side over his home and what an ex- cellent cook she Is going to be. and what lovely clothes she is going to have all of her own making, and how they can be entirely happy, even if they haven t much money.
 1 The course in domestic arts is brand new one at the Louie Compton semi nary, let me say, if you don't happen to l know it. and it is a success from every | point of view.
 The domestic arts department not only teaches girls cooking and sewing but it instills into their young minds the neces- | sity of combating with lifes big prob | lems-and preparing for them-such as the high cost of living, which is charged i by many to the modern woman's extrav- agance and how little attention she pays to marketing and buying and how little she knows of dressmaking and house. keeping
 l In this new department a girl is taught I ar she grows up the practical things | along these lines, and it stands to req son that she will make. by this knowl- edge. better wife. a better housekeeper, a better citizen than the girl who grows up with only college education-and no knowledge of the everyday things of life. What is perhaps the most significant feature of the work in the domestic arts | department of the seminary Is that the better the girls are trained the less chance of their losing their womanly | qualities.
 They are broadened and developed by these domestic studies and the responsi- biities imposed upon them, whereas in the ignorant strugglS that most girls have to make after they are married and | turned into housekeepers before they know it. they find themselves foundering around like fish out of water, with no l atility to cope with the situation and instead of being graduates" they are merely in the freshman class in the art of practical schooling.
 At the inspiration of that splendid, no- ble woman, Miss Hattie Morton, the prin- cipal of the Louie Compton seminary, who stands for the best In everything educational and social, and her constitu- ents, who compose the able faculty of her school-all Christian, high-breed women--is due the success of the semi nary, which today is a tower of strength to Birmingham-one of its splendid in- stitutions-unexceled- any respect.
 With her ingenuity and progressiveness. I Miss Morton has added from time to time every device which modernity suggests, desiring to provide for her pupils every 1 thing that tends toward the higher edu- | cation and elevation of women. In establishing the domestic art depart ment, Miss Morton has made a 10 strike.
 1t is the finishing touch you might say