Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-06

culture, domestic science, domestic
arts, language and mutslc instruction.
Hundreds of the total enrolment of
$500 members are learning new and
useful things in the weekly classes.
The latest department to be added
TO the work of the association is that
of social and reilglous extension actiVi-
ties among the women of Industrial
centers. Miss Dorothy Morgan, OF the
| Germantown association training
school in women's work has recently
been appointed extension secretary
| The purpose of this department is To
carry to working women and girls the
! four-fold idea of the Young Women's
Christian Association-physic edu-
cational, social and spiritual instruc-
ton in the form of talks on physical
culture, story telling, recitations, mu-
sical entertainments and Bible in
struction.
Girls Volunteer
Miss Morgan has organized COM
mittee of twelve volunteer workers,
with Miss Alice Graydon as chairman.
With one of these women Miss Nor
gan will conduct a factory meeting
each day in the week, according to
the following schedule: Mondays at
the silk mill; Tuesdays, Moorhead
knitting plant; Wednesdays, Harris
burg cigar factory in Race street
THURSDAYS, Ideal Hosiery factory; Fri
days, Blough manufacturing plant.
After the work is organized each
leader will take complete charge OF
I a noon meeting at a certain factory
After a time, factory clubs will be
organized and the work of the asso-
citation continued by the girls.
Miss Morgan Popular
Miss Morgan will have charge OF the
social pIuhc which meet MOnuaN ana
Wednesday nights; she will also or
ganize a High School girls club to-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock. der
desire is to have this a wideaWake
| girls society, the work leading up 10
the students associations in various
woman's colleges.
The Current Events class OF Mrs
Mabel Cronisc Jones on Tuesday ar
ternoons is crowded every week. The
Ienrollment of 342 members is said TO
/ be the largest class of its nateure in
the United States.
The physical department under Miss
Marjorie E. Bolles has about 25O wo-
men and girls in the gymnasium
classes. The dressmaking class has
hfty-nine enthusiasts learning 10 make
shirtwaists, skirts and to do plain
sewing. The instructors in this de-
partment ere Miss Frances Morrison
Miss Janet Sawyer. Mrs. Edward
| ManSGr ana Mrs. Herman L. Mlliel
| Teach Millinery
| Mrs. Paul Hooker is showing eleven
girls how to remodel their old hats
and design new ones. Mrs. Elizabeth
Long has five in the embroidery class.
Miss Emily Coleman has fourteen in
the basketry class. Miss Alice f.
Stevens, seven in painting. The Eng
lish Review class has ten members
under Mrs. George Ross Hull the
Rev. H. +. Lisse has twenty members
in his four graded German classes.
The junior classes under Miss Edna
Sprenkel have eighty-two girls under
twelve years. Glasses in French, elo-
cution and music will be organized
| later.
Most Pleasing TO All
| Next to the gymnasium, probably
1.-The most interesting department OF
the associations work is the domestic
| science school, conducted by Miss
Jessie Dowdell. She has 120 pupils in
/ ten classes, one each for housekeep-
ers, young wives. high school girls,
girls under twelve library assistants,
four for young business women in
the evenings, and one for young ladies
of leisure who desire to learn how
to manage a kitchen or to take charge
of the pots and pans when the cook
goes on strike. The students range
in age from little girls to mature
married women who won't tell how
old.
The only fault to find with the cook
ling course Is that of cramped ac-
recommendations. The kitchen is Is by
I20 feet and has arrangements for
only ten cooks so that some of the
students have to double up on the
Trolling pins, and use the same frying
pan for more than one batch of ham
and eggs. When Miss Dowdell opened
| ole 1nnIie0
for one of the periods of instruction,
so that instead of the five classes ori-
ginally, planned, she had to arrange
ten during the week, four of them at
night.
| Dcbutantes Eager
The teacher says all her classes are
equally enthusiastic in'their work, but
appearances seem to indicate that the
library girls and the debutantes are
the deepest in the new dishes they are
learning. At any rate, they have had
1.-TWO accidents since the course began
and accidents are surely indications OF
high nervous tension, which in turn
means earnestness, so the psychologists
say. At any rate the scrubwoman
says one of these girls spilled batch
of marmalade on the floor and was
obliged to call her to help to clean il
up. Another one burned big round
hole in tea towel by setting red
hot pan on it.
A glance into the cooking school
during the lesson hour shows an alb
sorption of the work so intense that q
stranger is not noticed by the stu
dents IF the visit is made near the
end of the period, each girl is seer
with her head bent over, consuming
the food she has prepared; for it is
a rule of the establishment that stu
dents must prepare their lessons sc
we'll that they can eat the dishes
themselves No one has been sick VI
Ito date, according to the records. Nc
biscuits have been burned; no soup
has boiled over; no one has been cut
with a butcher knife; no coffee pots
lhave blown up, and no reaches have
been found anywhere.
Cleanliness Requisite
Absolute cleanliness prevails from
the ceiling to the dishrags, which are
washed after each lesson and spread
on the table to dry for the next class
Each work bench is provided with n
kit of tools for peeling potatoes, etc.
and a single flame gas burner. Port
able ovens are used when q baking
lesson is in progress.
| Miss Dowdell's instruction is strict
lly informal and practical. At the
lopening of each lesson she tells briefly
the makeup of the dish to be pre-.
pared, its peculiarities, difficulties and
chemistry-if 1t has any. The stu
dents take any notes they may de-
sire, then take the required ingredients
and go ahead. Miss Dowdell stands in