Evening star., 1921-11-06
HUBBY OF 1921 HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
BIDS FAIR TO BUY HIS MEALS OUT
Dance and Dress Win Over
Domestic Science
! Work,

Lucky, indeed. will be the man who
leads a 1921 Washington High School
girl to the altar who can prepare a
simple meal. make and patch clothes,
and who is familiar with the duties
of a modern housewife. 1t is a safe
bet that such a girl will be hard to
find. in the opinion of some> school
officials.
Domestic affairs have but little sig
nificance to the 1921 High School girl,
according to Miss Emma s. Jacobs. di-
rector of domestic science in the pub
lie schools The girls in high school
today, she believes, would much rather
learn how to become more attractive
and how to dance the latest steps
than to cook sumptuous meal. darn
socks and clean house.
On the other hand, the younger girls
Of sixth, seventh and eighth grade
age are intensely interested in the
many problems of a housewife and
mother, Miss Jacobs reports Studies
on domestic affairs need not be
drilled into these girls. she said.
School Authorities Perplexcd.
This unusual situation is perplexing
school authorities, and they are in Il
dilemma as to how to arouse the ln'
terest of the High School girls in
things that probably will be of more
use to them in later life than the
latest shimmie evolutiOns. Miss ia
cobs is proposing revision in the
domestic science course in the high
schools as one solution of the
problem.
Girls in the sixth. seventh and
eighth grades" said Miss Jacobs. ARE
absolutely devoted to home projects.
The High School girls, however, evi-
IDENTIFY have other things on their
minds
Every girl in the seventh and eighth
grades of the first. third. sixth and
eighth divisions, it was pointed out
by Miss Jacobs. is now studying some
phase of housekeeping. There are a
few children in the fifth division who
are receiving instruction in domestic
science.
There are twenty-nine domestic
science teachers in the school system
who are trying to make model house
wives of the Washington schoolgirls
Twenty-SiN of these are in the graded
schools. two in the junior high schools
and one in the Smallwood Vocational
School.
At the present time the eighth
grade girls are studying budget
making" In other words they are
being taught how to estimate the cost
of food. clothes and other necessities
Of life to fit certain income.
Preparation of foods is being taught
the girls of the seventh grade, while
those in the sixth grade are receiving
instruction in general housekeeping
work. The latter course includes how
to make up the bedding. the table
linen. the toweling and the draperies.
to clean rooms, to launder fabrics. to
make beds. to care for the sick and
to tend the baby.
There are four housekeeping centers
in the schools system. where the
graded schoolgirls get their initial
touch of housekeeping under the plans
of school officials. They are located
in the Berrett School, the Wisconsin
Avenue Manual Training School, at
1901 X street northeast and in the
rear of the Neighborhood House
Since the seventh and eighth grades
are included in the junior high
schools, provisions have been made to
teach the girls in these institutions
cooking and housekeeping A new
domestic science course for these
girls is now being worked out by
Miss Jacobs. and all girls will be
compelled to take it for at least a
year.
The course now being followed in
the Junior high schools consists of
the study of food, how to cook and
serve it, kitchen housewifery. and the
principles of nutrition. in addition to
the sixth-grade course in the princi-
Piles of home making. In the Co
lumbia Junior High School. the multi