The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-11
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

WOlh peliiS uOHe III the uofneSuo SSiSiiNS department of the Alabama Girls Tech nical institute at Montevallo, believing that you will be as much interested in it as was on my recent visit to this great state school for girls.
 I found BIO students enrolled in this de- partment. The aim is to teach the stu dents standards of thrifty living so that they may establish efficient homes. This is getting down to rock bottom in the training of young women.
 The courses of study in this department include the study of fuels, combustion, types of cooking apparatus, application of heat to food materials, class studies in respect to various systems of heating, lighting and plumbing. All practical sub jects. If you think it's a waste of time to study such things, just stop and ask yourself, How much do I know about them?"
 Each girl makes out schedules of house. work for average family according to house, construction (porches, windows, size of rooms, etc, to clean). That few housekeepers have their daily work out lined shows the need of such study. Home management, with the rise in the cost of living, is a big subject. Few know how fr> into Ina girls take trips to market to get cuts of meats and to buy other articles of food.
 In this day, when none of us know just how soon our women will be called upon to act as nurses, was glad to know that at Montevallo there was course in home nursing and diets for the sick. Girls so trained can easily go step further and become proficient in Red Cross work.
 
 This is the day of the child. The cry of the infant is making itself heard. For long time it merely invoked sympathy or pity, but the twentieth century is be- ginning to throw around the babe all that science knows in order to protect and save its life How few mothers use any care in feeding their little ones Thou sands die from lack of knowledge. Mon tevallo offers a course on the feeding and care of infants.
 The question of food values is to the front. Tn the department of chemistry much attention is given to the chemistry of foods. Advanced work in nutrition forms big part of the study in the c.nss work. Americans are the wasters. Sec retary Houston sounds note of warning: Save foodstuffs and better prepared food Is the slogan.
 Preserving is big word at Montevallo. Each girl preserves vegetables and fruits, using the continuous discontinu- ous steam Clothes boiler) and oven methods. I looked into the stock room of fruits and vegetables that had been put in glass or tin.
 The following foods have been pre- served: Commercial pack, bean (green string), sweet potatoes; fancy pack, pears and cherries; domestic pack, pre- served: Commercial pack, beans (green pie preserves, apple jelly and butter. plum jelly, grape jelly, apple pickles and spiced apples, apple catsup and tomato catsup, tomatoes (whole), green tomato pickles, mixed pickle, butter beans, canned okra, dried okra, string beans. cucumber pickles.
 With prices advancing on all classes of preserved and canned goods it is a hopeful sign to know that so many or our girls are being trained in the art of putting up fruits and vegetables. It is interesting to note that at Montevallo prices varied from cents for one quart of string beans in glass cans tomato catsup at 10 cents per quart to steamed okra at 3s cents per quart.
 Believe me or not, but if you are a doubting Thomas, run down to Monte vallo and see for yourself a strange silk, wool, linen and cotton (serge dresses, curtains, underwear, sweaters, etc.) and determines proper methods of laundering fabrics. She removes all kinds of stains She dyes garments of silk, wool, linen and cotton, so that the gar ment may be remodeled and it's useful ness prolonged. Just think of it, you un- married men, who read this. They are actually teaching educated women to mako over old clothes. Why hesitate any longer? It's foolish to remain a benedict when you can go to commencement and see hundreds of girls prepared for help meets.
 Here is some practical work being done which greatly pleased us:
 Home Orchards-A course in fruit grow ing, dealing largely with strawberries, peaches, grapes and pears and embracing such practical features as selection of va rieties. planting, pruning, spraying for in- scots and diseases and preparing for mar ket.
 Flower growing is a part of the course in plant culture, and deals with house and yard plants.
 The department of agriculture and bi- ology is closely related to nome econom- ics. In this department they are giving an extensive course in bacteriology as ap- piled to milk and foods. The girls also have an opportunity to observe the work that is done in all of the farm and dairy