Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-05-24
Home Project Work for 1916.


The home project work offered by
the Home Economics department a
year ago was we'll received and it
will be continued for the coming
year. Only one new project will be
added but few minor changes will
be made in the first ones. We list
below the entire number of projects,
so as to give each girl good oppor-
tunity to make her choice. All who
wish to enroll for this work must
fill in the blanks printed for this pur-
pose and return them to the depart
ment not later than June first.
1,-Preparing one meal alone daily
for three months. At least one third
Of these must be dinners. For this
report, give menus for seven break
fasts, seven dinners and seven SUP
pers.
2.-Preparing three meals alone
daily for one month. For this re-
port hand in menus for any seven
successive days.
3.-Baking bread once a week for
four months. or twice aNea1.s7asszssss :. 1 Oh,
two months. Write an essay of not
less than 500 words on bread-making
in general and your work in particu-
lar.
4.-The care of two bedrooms fer
four months: sweeping, dusting, bed
making, etc. A three hundred word
essay ON the work done is required
with this report.
5.-Cooking meat 40 times in at
least IL different days. Write two
hundred essay on the best methods
tc be used with the tougher cuts of
meat.
6.-Making Is cakes, Is pies, IS
patches of cookies, and Is puddings
Doughnuts may be substituted for
any five of these.
7.-Making 1 dress, l waist, and l
undergarment or 1 dress, skirt, and
1 undergarment, or 1 dress and 3
undergarments. With each piece keep
account of the cost of all materials
used and give this in the report.
8.-Making three child's dresses
and one waist and one undergarmen
for a grown person. Accounts must
be kept in this case also.
9,-Canning SO jars of fruit. At
least 80 must be plain canned, in
quart jars; the rest must be jams
preserves, or jellies in pin or quart
jars or jelly glasses.
10.--Canning rs jars Of vegetables
by the intermittent process, in either
pint or quart jars. (Tomatoes will
not be included.)
11.-General Work. Give careful.
report of all useful work done about
the home not included in the projects
for which you enrolled. One eight
or one fourth credit will be given, al
the discretion of the instructor, ac
cording to the amount of work done.
2.-The sole care of the living
room and dining room for a periot
not only the daily and weekly clean
of three months. This must includ,
not only the daily and weekly clean
ing, but the ironing Of the table liner
and the cleaning Of the silver, whic]
must be done once a month. In tn
report, give careful outline of you
work, tell the method used for clean
ing the silver, and make special not
of the floor finish and your metho1
Of caring for them.
/ This year we will require that a
| the beginning Of each report shall b
| the number of the project and a cop,
! Of it as given here. At the end o
! the report there shall be not only tn
lsignature of the parent, but state
nent that he or she has read tn
report and knows it to- be correct.
/ We believe that the results fror
last years home project work ampl
repaid the effort. We are glad to Sc
|any added interest in home wor
manifested by the girls, and hope fo
your hearty cooperation in this re
i gard.
Respectfully Yours,
-V Vera B. Baker.