Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-03-03
Americas Women, Guests at
Mckay School Luncheon, See
Progress Of CoIored Girls
BY MRS. r. c.

BY MRS. r. {.
A party of ladies visited the Nc
Kay Hill school, department of do
nestle science, Tuesday under the es-
cort Of Prof. J. E. Mathis, to partici-
pate in the annual luncheon prepared
by this department of the school. In
the party were Mrs. J. E. Mathis Mrs.
S. II. Mckee, Mrs. May Rossman, Of
Pittsburg; Mrs. Willis Hawk 3. Mrs.
Loring Smith, Mrs. Will Riley, Mrs.
K. c. Moran and Mrs. Glenn Crisis
man, Of Detroit, who before her
marriage was Miss Nina Mexican, and
for four years domestic science
teacher in the public schools of
Americas. The invitation to visit the
school Is rendered each year by Prof.
Mathis, who issues it for the pur-
pose of showing those in charge of
the Mckay Hill school the interest
that is taken in this branch of educa-
ton in Americas.
Going out at noon Tuesday in three
cars, the guests were invited into the
domestic science home, which is a neat
cottage of four rooms, all scrupu-
lousy clean from porch to kitchen.
The guests were invited into the din
inc room which had been prettily dec
GRATED for the occasion with bowls of
jonquils, and there they found the
table correctly set for the midday
luncheon. The snowy cloth was laid
over the table, the cluny centerpiece
arranged with its silver basket of
jonquils, and the silver placed as in
all well-appointed dining rooms. Crisp
white curtains were draped at the
windows, and the room was comforta- /
bly, warmed with heater, polished to
mlrror-like brightness. In one cor
ner of the room was placed a cabinet
containing the articles which tie sew
ing class have finished, Numbered /
and laid away for inspection and fu-
ture use. First, the girls are taught .
to make work bags by hand, and this
was very neatly done, indeed. Then, !
the lingerie garments were exhibited /
and these had been made on the ma
chine, with the lace sewed on by hand .
after the garments had been com
pleted, The work showed up splen- (
didly, and eXemplifed that the girls .
are really being taught the first and .
correct principles of sewing.
Laundering Garments.
Next they were conducted into the /
laundry room with its numerous iron
ing boards, ready for immediate use.
The room was equipped with laundry
stoves, hot water tank, sufficiently /
large to hold water in plenty for the .
laundering of the garmetns. It was
explained that the garmens Numbered
were brought from the homes of the ,
students and done in the laundry !,
room under the personal supervision /
Of the teacher in charge, who k4ows |
the practical rudiments of laundry |
work, both from experience and care +
Ftl study. The girls are here taught !
to wash and iron materials from the |
most ordinary towels to the finest fab
rles used in perfect dressing.
The next excursion was into the |
kitchen. where the girls were prcpar-
ing the menu for the luncheon. This |
is fully equipped with numerous oil |
stoves, each girl being provided with |
the actual means of preparing various
foods used in the kitchen. The sinks {
were Immediately clean, the floor .
scrubbed to ivory wilderness, and the 7
walls hung with cards on which were /
Of thrift to be used in the
kitchen department OF every house |
hold. 1t was explained that the girls /
were taught not only how to prepare .
foods of all kinds, but also to buy
discreetly the foods necessary for a /
well-balanced meal, and to buy with
out waste In fact it is the purpose
of the teaching to eliminate all waste,
both in time and matter
This department of domestic .
science is under the direction of Ozie-
bel Hart, well known young colored
woman of Americas. She is the daugh
ter of the late Matt Hart, who lived
in Americas all his life, and accumu-
lated a comfortable fortune from his
store on Cotton avenue, patronized
alike by white and colored The do
nestle science department was organ
gained two years ago, when Ozietel
was placed in charge of the class. and
she has held this position since that
time. She is a graduate Of the Spell
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