Newark post., 1922-05-10
Home Economics
Pupils Contest
Students of Course Will Com
pete for State Educational
Board Prizes

Miss Bear, of the Home Economics
Department in this state, in connect
ion with the Board of Education, has
arranged for a series of high school
home making contests, the following
dates having been chosen for the eff
ficiency contests:
Sussex county, all schools south
OF Harrington, contest at Laurel, Mon
day, May Is; all schools east of Har-
rlngton, contest at Georgetown, Tues
day, May 16; Kent county's contest
will be held in Dover, Wednesday,
May II; and New Castle county's
contest will be held at New Castle
Thursday, May IS. The state contest
will be held in Dover, May 25.
The following state prizes have been
offered: For the high school home
economics department putting on a
play that will best show the ideals
of home-making training, $50 first;
SIS second; $40 third.
For the night school home eco
nomlcs department putting on the
best clothing exhibit, $50 first; $40
second; S5 third.
For the group of four first year
girls who can in the shortest length
OF time from the materials provided,
prepare the best meal from the stand
points of palatability and attractive
ness, $100 first prize; $50 second; $40
third.
For the individual second year girl
who in the shortest length of time,
from the materials provided, prepare
the most appetizing and attractive
meal, $100 first; $50 second, $40 third.
For the individual second year girl
who in the shortest length of time
makes the best dress from stand
points of execution and design, $1O0
first; $15 second; $40 third. ....
For the individual first year girl
whose clothing work for the whole
year shows the most Improvement,
S. in gold first; $3.50 second; 81 third.
1t is understood that 1, 2, and 8 are
department prizes. The girls who win
may feel that they have made a con-
tribution to their schools good name
and to the equipment of their depart
ment. They will have the joy of
using this equipment another year
and of passing it on as their gift to
the incoming classes.
No girl can enter for the second
year food prizes who cannot eat all
the food that commonly comes on the
table in this climate and whose food
habits are not equal to those COM
mended in the high school text. In
this contest she will probably be ask
ed to show first, the menus she has
eaten for a month; second the menus
she would use to fill out the day in
which the luncheon is prepared and
served; third, the approximate cost of
the menu served.
No girl can enter for the second
year clothing prize whose own dress
and coiffure do not show that she is
endeavoring to apply the principles
of art to her own dress. She will be
asked for her chartered wardrobe, her
clothing budget, and statement from
her teacher in regard to her usual
dress and coiffure. The dress may be
made in class.
In connection with the home-mak-
ing education as good thing for the
taxpayer, Miss Bear gives the follow
ing:
A very high per cent of all the
diseases to which man is heir, orig
mate in the stomach. At least 160
per cent of our people are suffering
with some kind of stomach or intes-
tinal trouble brought on by wrong
habits of eating and drinking.
tuberculosis is prevented by right
food habits and its cure is dependent
on learning right food habits. 1t has
been calculated that it costs $1,000 per
year for the state to care for tuber-
culosis victim.
Courses in home-making along food
lines will teach every potential mother
how to select and prepare foods for
the prevention of tuberculosis.
More money spent for training in
home-making will mean to the tax
payer less money spent in taking care