The Pensacola journal., 1917-01-10

Said Miss Binkley: Though the
boys have ambition and energy, they.
are held back on account of equip
ment. Another problem is getting
wood. So far, the work has been linn
tied to articles that could be made
from cigar boxes or very thin wooden
crates which the boys procure at the
stores, If they will go after them. Of
course the wood must be selected with
reference to the tools we have at hand
to work with, and the articles must
be planned with reference to the wood
| we can get
"It seems simple thing to show a
child rectangle four by six and tell
him to cut out block or piece of
wood Of those dimensions, but it
means 10 him lesson in arithmetic.
Through working out his problem
withs his hands he not only increases
his knowledge of mathematics, but
learns the necessity of applying his
knowledge to his every day affairs"
Considerable expense is involved in
the manual training department, for
as Miss Binlzley said, sand paper
wears out, varnish vanishes like
magic when there are ffty-six boys
to use it, especially when some woods
require two or more coats of stain. "
Miss Binkley was folloyed by Miss
Rebecca Krentzman, who has made
such success as teacher of sewing in
the Clubbs Grammar School.
| Miss Krentzman said in part: !.
| Necessity has at last driven the
thinking people to realize the import
ance of teaching homemaking and il
has been found advisable to place in
the school curriculum home economic
courses, and schools for the special
study of this work are being estab-
i lished.
Education for the home is speci-
| fically authorized as subject Of in
struction in the schools of approx
mately three-fourths of the states
] All the north eastern states, all the
middle states except Delaware; al
the Southern states except West Vir-
ginia, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama
all the central states, except Missouri
) and South Dakota, and the mountain
and Pacific states except Wyoming
and Colorado, in one way or another
have authorized the teaching OF
household arts in their elementary
, and secondary schools or both thirty
states in elementary and thirty three
. in secondary.
"Let us consider some of the rea
purposes Of teaching these subjects
to girls in grammar grades: ID T.
! make school of use in the home ant
make school work more practical. e.
To make the pupil able to serve he
] own needs. (3) To dignity housework
II (4) To hold in school, sixth ant
J seventh grade girls, who would or
, dinarily drop out to go to work, an,
, to try to lead them toward some use
full trade. (5) Last but not least, t.
provide for profitable use of time fo
the girl who is backward in schoo
work. Many girls leave school in tn
early grammar grades, only small
per cent ever reaching high school
therefore the public school system ha
found it both practical and absolutel,
necessary to begin this training in tn
grammar grades.
''The A. v. Clubbs school, in it
desire to do all in its power for tn
education and uplift of its children
;. has this year for the first time intro
duced this subject into its schoc
course. We have only planted seed
very small one indeed, for the train
ing of our girls in home economics
The general aim Of our course is t
encourage and interest the girls i
the home, to elevate their ideals b
applying system and scientific princi
pies to problems of the home, and t
give an appreciation of the import
ance of these prot..enis, as well a
efficiency in household work.
1--WE fully realize the crudeness o
this first effort, but we hope that thi
is only a nucleus of what is to b'
Practically no money has been eS
pended in equipping the sewing room
but, nevertheless, with this small be
i ginning, we plan for the comm
year a large and adequate depart
ment. BY next year we hope to teac
not only domestic art but domesti
science, to have this depsrtmer
opened not only to fifty-five girls, bu
. to each and every girl in our schoo
Members of the Home and SchoC
! League of the A. v. Clubbs schoo
we need and ask your aid and CO
operation in this work. We need yeu
assistance in securing the equipmen
. We need you to inculcate in the mind
of your girls the Importance aSwe
1 as the pleasure derived from a prope
and systematic knowledge of HON
economics. In time what now seem
HI a Utopian idea will unfold and dt
/ velop. Our girls will at last hay
come into their own riOhtflll heYitao1