The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06

home economies; that doesn't look
like our modern girl is all frivolous,
does it2'
Every girl in the room, save one.
wore simple dark dress or a MILDLY
suit, and that one wore a plain dark
silk blouse that looked lust az dur
able as the garments of the others.
Visitors were scarcely noticed. so
intent were they upon their fasci-
mating occupation. OF hat making.
A part OF the sewing course is
the making of layette--each girl
chooses the two garments that she
will make for this, and tho major
ity OF them choose TO make the lit
tie dresses and gertrude petit
coats.
The cooking classes have practi-
cal experience in the cooking and
serving OF meals. Miss Kimble.
head of the home economics de-
partment, while she must OF nee
essity refuse MANY OF tho invitations
for outside work, accepts invitations
whenever she can. for the practical
experience it gives the pupils.
Lunches or dinners are frequently
served the board Of education mem
bers; box lunches were planned for,
prepared, put up and sent to tho
various voting places for Judges at
the recent excess mill levy election.
and the girls served the Rotary city
beautiful banquet. To walk along
tho corridors OF the high school at
certain periods Of the day--almost
any periods to be tantalized by
the delicious odors that float out
from the shining white kitchens
filled with White-aproned n d
earnest faced girls.
Care of the sick is another phase
of the home economics course that
is intensely practical. For the mos'
part, this course is conducted In tho
model apartment, as facilities here
Tor such work are more adequate
than in the ordinary classroom. As to
housekeeping, too, actual experience
In afforded here In the model apart
ment'
Tho Planning OF Homes.
sun another housewifely phase Of
the work in home economies that
In Indicative, perhaps, of tn o
progressive day in which we are
living is the course that, begin
ming with the ground work of home
building. that of choosing a site for
n home, gives an elementary course
Of instruction in the architecture
OF the home, its construction, In
terror decorating, and furnishing
This work, accompanied by the
drawing Of rough plans, is given
from an intensely practical view
point. and is augmented by work
along parallel lines, hut given from
an artistic angle, offered I'm Miss
Adah Robinson's art classes.
Miss Clara Kimble. head Of the
department, began her work in the
schools here eight years ago, with
the muniiiccnt appropriation Of
$40 for her work, This was spent
on the simplest material purchas-
able, and from that small start the
work fostered by Miss Kimble :
earnest belief I'm its vital place i'm
the schools, and by her steady and
faithful efforts towards building II
up, grew TO its present dimensions
and Is confined not alone to Central.
| but given in the ward schools as
well
Working with Miss Kimble are %
teachers in this department; in the
| high school, Misses Martha Binkley
May Brookshire and Letltia Ferce
| domestic science: Misses Elsie Fes.
sender, Marty Lamb, Sadie Lee Orr
! Zoe Tabor and Ethel Urbatch, do
nestle art; Miss Helen Pearce
cafeteria. In the grades, where
cooking and sewing are taught, the
I teachers are Misses Ellen Allen
Gertrude Engle, Eunice Hawkins
/ Pearl Hepburn, Alice Kirkbride
I Irene Marshall, EXine owen, Ada
| Sidwoll. Georgia Stcbbins, Elsie
Tennnyson, Letta Wampler, Kath-
/ leen Mattingly and Marie Meyer.