The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-07

|uoTNiSOr OF tnc Hollc cCoHoHlCS ue-
|rarlment Of the city schools, tells of
ihe work and the accomplishment
of the department in her own words.
BY CLARA KIMBLE
gunerylsor Home Economics Department
of Tulsa Schools.)
The aim of home economies is to
make tho future home builders
c,Ajse moro wisely, produce more
efficiently and conserve moNe truly
and such lessons are a golden link
between school and home.
y In the Tulsa schools there are a
y dsc0re or more trained teachers whose
work is with girls only, and who are
known as home economies teachers.
| Truly they exemplify the old saying
| that a wOman's work Is never done.
| Aside from regular class room du-
ties, they are called upon for emer-
gency work. such as darning stock
| Iirgs, sewing on buttons. furnishing
rims, or needle and thread to repair
an auto top.
Al the costuming and catering
aid for special programs in each
building and helping with children's
| patterns and food at home are taken
as a matter of course.
When the little tots are playing in
the kindergarten their first lessons
Of unselfishness are taught. This is
emphasized and the mother love and
creative desire fostered when the lit
tie girls make clothes for dolls or
baby sister and learn the uses of
buttons, pins and needles. Later on
they sew for themselves and their
home but best of all they help moth
er on Saturday and get credit for it
3a school. This Is called my Sat
urday morning job" and is the sub
lect Of a written theme in the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades.
The eighth grade girls become
,ertablc home makers through their
| Planning. buying and preparing of
meals, making with this a careful
study of food costs and food values.
Here special hygiene is taught along
Ath a study of the care of the
younger members of the family.
In our house furnishing lessons
throughout the grades and high
School simplicity, comfort and
beauty in developing the home is
the dominant idea. A home reflects
the Intelligence, interest and time
given 10 it.
Domestic science trains the Tulsa
girl in the belief that health is the
foundation of the nation and that
good food simply and wholesomely
prepared is the foundation of good
health.
4 That this training is carried into
w. nome is proven by the intensely
interesting reports by the eighth
grade girls on their Saturday morn
ing jobs which Is regular part
Oh the weeks work, and the num-
oer OF graduates who report back
10 us from homes OF their own.
our girls who have taken prizes
Ior bread making in the past are still
experiencing the thrills that come
IRON contemplating a batch of bread
wen done, and a family well fed.
One girl makes a good living in
Her iathers home in addition to her
u'her duties by selling her home
made cakes.
IN nome nursing in the high school
we WORK for poise in emergency, the
Heiare of others. especially chill
uIeh' right living which means the
P,uper correlation of work, rest and
piay ana the prevention of disease.
r. one of the 1922 class who fin
enhed at the close of the first Sc
'mester aptly expressed it, "My fam
ny nave all been sick in the last
TWO months and found immediate
Ipr my nome nursing course"
i"e domestic art side stands for
nc ueVelopment of intelligence in
.Hg hHnWledge Of healthful and suit
s sule clothes for all occasions and
them. '''e 'N''@
Perhaps the most popular division
w. uoIHesllc art Is millinery. This is
uS aII over the United States,
uoup',eSs due to fathers hearty ap-
muNal OF the lowered prices. Com
IInls nave gone out from national
sni,,Hnery ~, authorities that straw and
~ Hds are to be popularized in
~ Iuture to combat the tendency
'Oi making hats at home.
a undoubtedly the most practical of
%e serving work is the making of
oe.uHuFen's clothes and infant law
ILe,es' I No school disciplinary prob
gus ever creep into these rooms.
h., .nDuut 10 per cent of a sewing
TINE Is given over TO school
SIsn SILslly work such as costuming for
am, Ihooi plays. charity work, pag-
r' aus band uniforms, etc. We have
aue exhibits in eight different
mace mace so far this year, always re-
nhool. '0' ouF hish
no, sVinetimes the impression is given
q % bohe ,he studious girl does not take
ysL hoine economies, Not so in Tulsa
"sh Tor In our department here the
sshr sLmhoer OF honor students is a little
ns n"ev than the general average for
ent, 0' "hich lis ~ per
/, ~ y, the l'o67 girls enrolled in Tulsa
ona, n school this year CIT are en-.
nd ,Sned In the home economics de-
pShent and nearly all OF the
Ia u''s nave had previous work with
VI the 100 senior girls in 1872