Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-04-07

HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
Home Projects for High School Stu
dents.
In this department as in the Agri-
cultural department much of the work
loses it's value unless followed by
practical home work. To encourage
the active cooperation between school
and home and to apply the training
IN school directly to the home is the
object of these home projects offered.
Reports of all work done, certified
by the parent or guardian, must be
brought to the instructor in home
economics at the completion of the
project.
It is to be hoped that students,
both present and prospective, will
take up this work and that the par
ents will show themselves interested
in the schools effort to help them
as well as their daughters, and will be
glad to give an opportunity to do
some of the work offered.
One-eighth credit will be given for
each of the first eight projects; for
the 9th and 10th one-fourth credit
will be given.
The project should be selected with
care and then carried thru with a de-
termination to make the work as good
as possible.
l. Preparing one meal alone daily
for three months. At least one-third
of these meals must be dinner. With
the report, menus must be submitted
for seven breakfasts, seven dinners
and seven suppers.
2. Preparing three meals alone for
one month. In case of sickness or
absence from home, six meals may be
prepared by someone else and these
same made up in another month.
With this report, menus for seven
successive days must be submitted to
the instructor.
8. Baking bread once a week for
four months. If desired hand in an
essay Of not less than 500 words on
bread baking in general and your
work in particular.
4. Care of two bedrooms for four
months: sweeping, dusting, bed-mak-
ing, etc. A three hundred word es-
say on the work done is required with
this project.
5. Cooking meat 40 times in at
least IL different ways. A two hun
dred word essay on the best methods
to be used with the tougher cuts OF
meat.
6. Making 10 cakes, 10 pies, 1C
patches Of cookies, 10 puddings
Doughnuts may be substituted fol
any two Of these.
7. Making one dress, one waist, one
undergarment; or, making one dress
one skirt. one undergarment; or, one
dress and two .undergarments.
With each piece, keep account OF
the cost of all utensils used, and give
this account in the report. 49,
s. Making three child's dresses, and
one waist and one undergarment fo1
a grown person. Accounts must be
kept in this case also.
9. Canning so jars of fruit. At least
|30 must be plain canned, in quart
jars; the rest may be jams or pre-.
serves. in quart or pint jars or jelly
in glasses.
10. Canning Is jars Of vegetables
canned by the intermittent process
in pint or quart jars. tomatoes will
not be included).
The above projects were prepared
by Vera B. Baker, head of the home
economics department of the Warner
schools.
A number of the projects submitted
by Prof. Ole Neraal are being consid.
cred by the boys.
| In short time other projects will
be submitted.
Our object in submitting these
home or outside of school projects il
not to take from our present course
but rather to enable students to grad
uate with more credits. Special certi
fication will be made on. the diploma!
of these graduating with home cred
its. We desire to encourage in ever,
possible way the doing of usefu
home tasks. Much of the time nov
spent by many boys and girls upo1
the streets or in some loafing place
could be better spent in some usefu
and helpful home task. The sue
cess of work Of this kind as you will
readily see depends very largely up
on friendly cooperation which ma!
| be given by parents.
/ Very respectfully,
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