The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-04-19
Domestic Art

We are a busy class and enjoy oul
work very much. We work on the
top floor of the old high school build
ing and have real nice rooms to work
in. Miss Conley is our teacher. We
cook the last period of every Tuesday
afternoon.
The first part of the term we learn
ed how to prepare things for break
fast and all of them were very good.
Some of the things were breakfast
cereals, French fried toast, baked ap-
Piles, caramel syrup, poached eggs and
toast.
Then we learned many things in
housekeeping that we had never
known before,p as: how to swee
floors without raising much dust, pol
ish silver, wash windows, take care CT
bedrooms and many other things about
housekeeping.
We also learned how to care for our
health, which l think is a very import
ant thing.
Besides all these useful things we
took one period to learn table man.
ners and l am sure we all know how
to eat correctly now.
Around Christmas time we made
Christmas candy and it certainly was
splendid. We made divinity, fudge
and cream candy which we prepared in
lots of different ways.
Then we learned how to prepare
things for luncheon or supper. Some
of these were mullins, golden corn
cake, hot chocolate, creamed salmon on
toast. The last thing we prepared
was pudding which we ate with pre-
serves. I thought it was the best
thing we had made this year except
the Christmas candy.
But the last time we had cooking
period we did something very queer.
We made believe we were going to
have very grand feast and Miss Con-
ley named so many godo things that
we were going to have that we girls
suddenly became very hungry. First
of all we learned how to set the table
correctly. Then some of US girls pre-
tended we were guests and the rest
had to wait on table. We had a hos
tess, too, and all of US had to do things
right. I am sure that lesson will al
ways be a great help to US.
Violet Kruger,
Eighth Grade.
Arithmetic
The Eighth grade during the be-
ginning of the year took up the funda-
mental operations Of addition, subtrac-
ton, multiplication and division, for
quick drill and to gain accuracy and
speed as we'll as foundations for clear
and concise statement work. Fractions,
decimals, percentage, gain and loss,
commission, insurance, taxes, CONNER
cial discount, duties and customs, in
terest and measurements in all their
applications were studied very thor
oughly. Special notes have been Civ
en- on the arithmetic to nike it more
interesting and easier. Only practi-
cal problems were given to the class
to make the work of greater benefit to
US. Numerous illustrations from our
own home town have been especially
helpful. The arithmetic course this
year has not yet been completed as we
still have to learn bank discount, pro-
portion, square root, stocks and bonds,
for practical purposes. AS a result of
the long and careful explanations on
the part of the teacher, Miss Chelgren,
the work has been covered thoroughly,
and nothing of Importance has been
sighted. Arithmetic has proved a
very interesting subject throughout
the year. Dora Dunn,
Eighth Grade.
History
We have so far covered the whole
History book and have gone through
it again. We have taken up all the
minor and large, or, important wars
which include the Civil, Revolutionary,
Spanish-American, French and Indian
wars with many other smaller ones.
When we took war we would always
have to get the causes and results of
it and the same with inventions and
their results or effects on the country.
Nh <I L