The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
MODERN GIRL TO
Be HOUSEKEEPER
Coming Generation Will
Be Competent and
Skillful
.FRIvOLITY DISCARDED
Taught How to Cook, Sew,
Keep House and Properly
Care dor Infant Life .
pv FAITH HIERONYMUs.


The morning sunshine streamed
through the wide. yellow curtained
windows upon row OF earnest and
.uurucd faces. Very young, very
..rllsh faces they were, intent upon
fr. process going on at the tables
..fore them. The baby was hav-
ing It's bath TO be sure. Il was a
very calm and very pink and a
worry rigid baby-but it was life
Size, and had the adantago over
\ iIe real article, who, however cum
rmely cuddN it may be, is a rather
uncertain quantity when II comes To
being the center of attraction in q
high school girls home economies
ylss.
For that is what this stage set
ting with It's local color of yellow
sunshine and yellow shades is for
"a morning class at Central. Upon
the table in the center of the semi
oryle IS miniature white tub.
towels stacked near II, pitchers OF
mot and cold water, and the baby's
clothes laid In n neat pile on the
cage OF the table. Mrs. William
Godfrey, Red Cross nurse. white clad
aud capable, is demonstrating how
tu disrobe, bathe, and dress IA baby
with a maximum Of comfort and
minimum OF breakage. The les.
son involves a great many more
things than just those essentials
aud to the initiated, looking on,
tho psychological placement OF
safety pins, for instance, as an eX-
omplary item, is amazing. Every
thing from washing out baby's eyes
To dcpositing him. clean and sweet,
in his bed after the bathing is fin
ished is Demonstrated as Mrs. God
frey talks, and afterwards Miss Zoe
Tabor. teacher OF the class, ex-
planned. the girls will take turns
demonstrating what Mrs. Godfrey
had taught them.
A Typical Scene.
This class is small part of the
system at Central that has for its
prime object the teaching OF stu
dents tho practical every day things
that they will want, TO know as a
part Of the business of living When
they are older as we'll as the funda-
mentals of reading, writing and
rithmetic. The day has been left
far behind, by Tulsa and other
schools equally progressive, when a
student can take with him or her
the high school diploma. IA head fun
ot academic knowledge and not n
Hhmbloful % practical ia'urmatirn.
Take the Tulsa high school girl,
for instance.
There are 671 girls in the home
economies department, and there
would be more II facilities were
adequate for caring for larger num-
hor. What does she iearn? Does
She dress dolls, cook "A teacupful OF
something. theorize about house
keeping
Making Housekccpcrs.
She does none OF these things.
She learns to make her own clothes,
beginning, scientifically, with the
ia ments OF the art and learning,
FIRST OF all, to "sew straight
seam They do sew beautiful
straight ones too, these beginners
IN sewing. Iron holders are the
first things upon which they prac-
ire the art of guiding a sewing ma
'hIhe needle in the way it should
go, ana unless one has been most
dlllgently trained from childhood TO
observe the 10 commandments, the
Hkellhood Is that those iron holders
WIZ be coveted by the passerby.
Inen the simplest things in a ward
i"oe come ncNt-plain, straight lit
We aprons, house dresses, night
dresses petticoats, then blouses.
rocks and hats, She learns what
s ana what is not good taste, and
WY shc learns not only how 70
w. Dut how 10 design as well, and
I1f inc girl who is talented alone
lhese lines, the classes offer a won
"'Iiu opportunity for DEVELOPMENT
Along the wall OF one OF the
,ooms is a wardrobe with glass
unorH behind which hang aprons
PINK and white and red and blue
p,o.n ana elaborate, but all OF them
.'suraIess OF degree of trimming
s oedutltully made, close inspec-
non reveals. Better than TINT
through the working out OF the
problems that the aprons present
y"' pupil has expressed her in.
u.N9ualty so surely that the two
" HCrs examining tho work would
1al Tor instance--"this must bt
I""' II looks just like her" 'It
ana thls Is Helens." Isn't thai
ba b,'ol' tn9ugh p These aprons viii
z in May At '"' iasn'on sho"
IN the next room the girls wer,
iaN'ng hats-each girl in the elias,
a'ways makes herself a spring ant
luIl nat, at least, and some of IN,
r,,e talented and faster worker,
axe moro than one, Looking owe,
No roomful OF girls, Principa
Merle c. Prunty said;
.r No frivOlity Here.
I'ople often ComplaIn IN N,
,,t"olJ our young girls-the clothe,
It'5 wear, the things they like Il
sso. Ihey tell me that The old,
sla, ss"an'ohed home-loving girl "a neyel
IT," now Look at these girls--sv,
,r' clothes they are wearing-anC
ro.,, ,.' is a typical group-and ther
M a,m s,,. 700, what a large per CEN
~ "uE girls are choosing classes in