The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-13
PLANNING TO EQUIP
CITY SCHOOLS FOR
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
TRAINING

ne Ldhelduu GdS 70. is ueSOLlat-
ing with the local school board look
ing to the installation of domestic
science apparatus in the schools
here Speaking of the use in Tam
pa of this equipment, sales manager
Rumbold had the following to say
to a Telegram representative this
morning:
-Four of Tampa's biggest schools
are now equipped with domestic
science apparatus and give the full
course in domestic science training.
1t is the testimony of school author
tiles, pupils and parents alike, that
domestic science is one of the best
courses in the schools, doing more
for the girls even than manual
training does for the boys The
same experience is true of every pro-
gressive city or town.
Tampa mas mad domestic science
training in it's school curriculum
four or five years. Some objection
WIS heard to it as a fad when it was
first proposed to install it in the
Michigan avenue school, but it is
doubtful if anyone who knows of the
good work it is doing for the young
women who are to be the future
housewives of that community
would so stigmatize it now.
as applied in Tampa. it is prac-
teal, up to date and highly attrac-
tive, being one of the best liked
courses in the school AS stated
the Michigan avenue school was the
first in which this course was taught
in Tampa Iillsboroueh high and
Hyde Park grammar soon followed
and it has also lately been put in
use in the Buffalo avenue grammar
school. There are "a ranges in the
Michigan avenue school and vary
ing numbers in the other schools.
Not only is plain cooking taught the
girls but they are educated to know
the comparative values of foods.
They can tell you the food contents
of various foods and no Grocer will
be able to impose on the housewife
who has had domestic science train
ing. They get training not only in
the cooking OF foods but in serving
them and table dressed by girl
who has had the benefit of domestic
science training is always a thing
of joy.
Domestic science training is re-
garded as one of the most valuable
parts of school training in the up-to-
date cities where this work has been
introduced. Both Tampa and Jack
sonville have domestic science train
ing as part of the course in their
schools and Tampa has four schools
equipped to teach it, one of them,
Mich an avenue, where it was first
introduced some FIVE or six years
ago, having no less than "a ranges
in its domestic science training de-
partment.
Every effort is made to keep the
work on strictly practical basis
and anyone who has had the good
luck to attend any of the luncheons
with which the girls frequently
vary the work of their course, can
testify that they certainly learn how
to cook.
They are instructed not only
how to cook but are taught the food
values of various foods so that they
know what kinds of foods to serve
and what effects they will have.
The art of serving foods is also
taught and a table dressed by one
of the girls who take the domestic
science course in the Hillsborough
high school, the Hyde Park gram
mar, the Buffalo avenue grammar or
the Michigan avenue school in Tam
ma Is indeed delight.
That girls of good family do not
need to learn these things is often
argued against domestic science but
to this it may be pointed out that
no girl knows when she will have
to assume the personal responsible
ties of a home. Even IL she is able
to have plenty of servants the wom-
an who knows how thing should
be done will get better service than
one who does not know.
1T is sometimes argued that girls
who are to live in good homes do not
need to know this sort of thing, but
it is not always possible to tell how
long they will be able to have
things done for them or what mo-
ment they may have to do things
for themselves. Also the girl or
woman who knows how a thing
should be done properly is a good
deal more apt to get good service
out of others than one who does not
know "