West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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M ' § MURMUreMONTIS. ' g @ . r Domestic Science IVe can live without poetry, music and art. We can live without conscience and live without heart, Wc can live without friends. We can live without hool s. But where is the man who can live without cooks? HUS saying the Trustees of West Virginia Wesleyan College set to work last September to establish a Domestic Science Department. The citi- zens of the town became interested and in a short time the finances were at hand and the good work was started. in this Department the girls are taught all about household management, preparing and combining foods, with special emphasis on economy in buying. They are also taught serving and the girls say Miss Smith teaches hemming tea towls and napkins via the old route of ripping. Occasionally people became sick even while breathing the pure air at Wesleyan, so the girls are taught Home Nursing, Invalid Cooking, Dietetics, etc. The girls would not have us believe Domestic Science is one grand sweet song or all a flowery path of ease. i. e. — A one thousand word essay on the life of Ellen H. Richards, make out a breakfast menu consisting of three courses for nine and one-third cents per cover and be sure you serve the required number of colones for a man weighing one hundred and sixty pounds, twenty five years old, doing office work. A club is now being formed called the Domestic Science Club, and they say it is not the first domestic Club. Can anyone guess what the first one was? (The rolling pin). This Club is looking forward to the day it will have a club house where the Domestic Science students may live. They expect to have a cottage and run it on a scientific basis. Here the girls will put into practice all their knowl- edge of Household Hygiene. Household Sanitation. Bacteriology, Home Nursing. Dietetics. Cooking. Sewing and Home Management in general, thus making it an ideal home for young ladies as well as a workshop. Some say the Domestic Science Department belongs to the Antis. We are not quite sure but think it is Anti-dyspepsia. Ask the basket ball team or happen into the dining room some day when the table is spread and the feast is waiting. one hundred forly-lhree WkTBiT})

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