The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-03-26
INTERESTING REPORT OF
LEAVFNWORTH SCHOOLS
Home Economics Department Has Taught
Students Much That is Worth
Knowing

ment of Leavenworth schools, during
the current year to date, and shows the
expense of maintaining it.
Miss Myrtle M. Dandy, the instruc-
tress, is conducting sewing and cook
ing from the sixth to the twelfth grade.
The eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and
twelfth grades devote from one hour tc
one and half hours per day, half of the
days being used for cookery and the
other half for sewing. The sixth and
seventh grades devote two hours pei
per week to the work covered by the
various classes.
Sixth Grade Cookery-Ve Vegetables,
their composition, use in the body and
methods Of preparing. Christmas can
dy. lunch dishes, soups.
Seventh Grade Cookery and Sewing
Picked carrots and beets, bever-
ages, cornstarch mixtures, Christmas
candy, biscuits. apple dumplings, egg
mixtures. Nightgowns pearled by
hand and an embroidered initial on the
front Of the gown. Lawn shirts made
by machine and hand work combined.
Eighth Grade Work-Jelly making,
chief dishes for a hot lunch, soups,
Christmas candy, mince meat; pie,
apple, orange, carrot, lemon, cream,
Laundry work; classes of foods and
their uses in the body. Eggs and
milk, their uses and composition. The
digestive system. Their sewing work
includes domestic science aprons and
caps; the caps made by hand and the
aprons by machine; undershirts, ma
chine and hand work; night gowns
with crochet yokes.
Eighth A and Ninth Grade Work -
Jelly, preserves, canning, pie, cheese
dishes, mince meat, Christmas candy,
apple dishes. Serving and the prepa-
ration Of meals. Care OF home, home
making, infants, their care and food.
The stove and range. Air, its compo-
sition and relation 10 life. Water,
pure and impure. The dairy; milk as
food. This class also made their do
mestic science aprons and caps, COM
bination suits with crochet lace, ging-
ham dresses and an original problem.
Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Grade
Work-Canning, jelly making, salads,
meats, cuts of meat, their composition
and preparation, candy, ,nince meat,
fruit cake, cocoanut balls, sponge cake
with custard nut filing, cookies and
doughnuts, noodles, brown bread. work
on home furnishings, planning the
kitchen, with their mottos, Save
Steps," and Cleanliness is Our Stand
ard" Construction of an ice box,
sinks, stoves. fuel. The cost and pur-
chasing of foods, household accounts,
menus and dietaries, including care
full study of what they should eat,
compared with what they do eat. City
sanitation and its connection with home
sanitation, kinds of fabrics and tests
for each. Sewing done by these class
es includes domestic science caps
made by hand, tatting, problem OF
towels, waists, caps, aprons, runners,
handkerchiefs, doilies, collar and cuff
sets, bags, baby slips, pillow slips,
night gowns, center piece, luncheon
cloth, Christmas presents of dressing
sacks, handkerchiefs, towels, pillow
slips, bags in crochet and tatting,
doilies. Problems in embroidery oil
caps, towels, dresser scarfs, doilies,
collar and cuff sets, bags.
The Twelfth grade made their grad
uation dresses and the tenth and elev-
enth made their afternoon dresses.
Some of the dresses were made by
hand and others by combination OF
machine and hand sewing. While
waiting for all Of the dresses to be
finished a few who finished first made
corset covers and combination suits.
In addition to the regular class work
each one Of the classes in the High
School building has earned part of the
money to help pay expenses.
The tenth, eleventh and twelfth