Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-04

is the first one in the state to teach
first aid work to its pupils has caused
some amusement in this city, for
both emergency and home nursing
have been taught in the Milwaukee
schools for the last two years. In
addition to the work done by the
teachers one of the city physicians
gives the demonstrations of bandag-
ing and of first aid IN cases of faint
ing and drowning. Last year DR..
George P Barth had charge of these
classes and it is expected that he
will continue the work this year.
FIRST AID WORK TAUGHT
The nursing course is an extensive
one, including the history of nursing,
diatetics, sanitation, bacteriology,
invalid cookery, the general care Of
the patient and the treatment in
cases of sprains, dislocations, wounds,
burns, fractures, poison, snake bites,
fainting and drowning. How to make
a bed for a sick person, how to pre-
pare tray for convalescent, and
general rules for the sick room are
details in the course.
The model home which has been
fitted up in the South Side High
school and which includes living
room, sleeping room, bath room,
kitchen and a dining room, makes
a splendid laboratory in which the
care of a home can be taught.
Household management and advanced
dressmaking are the final features of
the four year work. The feeding and
care of children and general diatetics
are taught the girls in the first half
of their senior year.
While the South Side High is more
extensively equipped than the other
schools, this building being the only
one in which it was possible to find
room for the model home, the same
course of instruction is followed in
all the high schools except in the east
division, where the work will not be
installed until the new Riverside
school is ready for occupancy.
COURSE PROVES POPULAR
Something of the popularity of
this course is indicated by the fact
that over one third of the girls en-
rolled are taking the work. The
South Side and Washington High
each have an enrolment of about
40 girls in this department, Miss
Mira Congdon and Miss Brock having
charge of the classes at the south side
school and Miss Henrietta Farrall at
the Washington High. West Division
High has two instructors, Miss Jessie
Worms teaching the domestic art
and sewing, and Miss Isabel Baldwin
are taking the work. At the North
Division High Miss Edith Massee is
instructing ITO girls, and the Bay
View school, with total enrolment
of eight girls, has twenty-five who
are taking the household arts course
under Miss Clara Perry. Washing
ton High has the largest PERCENTAGE
of any of the schools, one-half of
its complete enrolment of girls being
in the household arts department.
READY FOR HER OWN HOME
Able to make her own dresses and
hats, to do her own cooking and her
laundry work, trained to spend the
income wisely and economically,
equipped with practical knowledge
of nursing and of what to do in
emergencies, the sweet girl graduate
of the next few years Will doubtless
be in great demand in the matri-
monial market.
q hope I'll never have to do my
own washing and ironing, but I'm
glad I know how said one bright
faced girl. "Now if a laundress
tells me stain won't come out I'd
like to see her get away with it. |
know it will, because I've had to do
it myself. !"
When the Sentinel staff photo
grapher took the accompanying
pictures, he asked the young laund-
ress to bend over and look more as if
she were at work.
1--WE are taught not to bend over
when we wash but to have the bench
high enough so that we stand up
straight, she explained. "It's
much easier on the back. -
The photographer was silenced but
not convinced.
cpl bet that girls mother would
have fit if she saw her trying to do
washing that way he said. Even
men sometimes have old fashioned