The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22
they will give attention. Take arith-

metic:
= Arithmetic come in terms of the
edaily problems which the girl meets in
her school life. If it takes so much
time to care for ones room in the
morning, so much time for the work
one is to perform in the weeks sched-
ule on duties, so much time for study
and so much time for play, find the
weeks apportionment of time for each
duty. Or, each giEls work in the laun-
dry a certain time. She is set to max
ing out actual bills of the laundry sup
plies used each week, soap, starch,
bluing and clothes pins-and in this
way gains good practical arithmetic
which she will use in after life in her
own home.
Recognizing the need for homemak-
ers, the whole trend of life at the
school centers about fitting the girls
to be good houseworkers and good
economists. They are taught the
beauty and dignity of simplicity and
the fact that good taste and harmony
does not mean the outlay of large
asums of money.
<'1 know what's the matter at
home" announced one girl when she
came back to the school after visit
at her home, mother hasn't any sys-
tenn to her work and she has too much
junk around" Unconsciously this girl
had imbibed the idea of simple dig
nifty in home furnishings, the bad taste
of walls crowded with meaningless
pictures and windows disfgured with
hideous curtains. Also she had
learned that scrim and crash, pur-
chased at cost of Z cents a yard,
makes delightful window hangings
with little clever needlework. The
corner of the dining room in one
cottage, shown in the accompanying
picture, tells where the lesson was
learned.
The school work includes sewing in
many forms; the girls make all their
own clothes and the table and bed
linen, window curtains and hangings
used in the cottages, besides taking
orders for fancy work. Their sale of
fancy needlework last Christmas was
revelation to those who attended
and saw the work of the girls that in
(many cases had not known how to
darn their own stocking when they
entered the school.
The home-planning class is a unique
feature of the school work Books are
made under Instruction, giving draw
ings and plans of modest little homes,
their cost, the cost of interior finish
ings and furnishings with carefully
worked out color plans and tables of
expenses. The girl who has been
through class work of that sort
is equipped with actual knowledge
when the time comes that sees her
own home being built and furnished.
The Holidays are Great Days
Indeed.
That work well done for a clear
purpose may be enjoyable is the
great idea which Mrs. Morse and her
assistants try to instill into the
minds of their pupils. Unless they
can learn this, little of permanent
good will result. The life to which
they are being directed must be
made attractive, it must be spiced
with pleasure. Thus it is that the
great days, Fourth of July, Christ
mas, Thanksgiving, are very great
days, indeed, at the Home School.
Each cotatge makes its plans quite
Independent Of the rest. Last Fourth
of July group of girls at one cot
tage picnicked at the lake; another
group had dance, some of the girls
taking the part of young men and
calling for the young women they
were to escort to the dance, another