Centralia High School - Skookum Wa Wa Yearbook (Centralia, WA)

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DOMESTIC SCIENCE, SEWING made or assisted in making for themselves. While cooking, the girls work in pairs, each having two gas plates, an individ- ual oven, cupboards which contain their cooking utensils and supplies. The scien- tlllc principles applied to all the things that were made, have been studied. Among the things cooked are cakes, doughnuts, biscuits, puddings, omelets, vegetables, meats, etc. On St. Valentine's day heart-shaped cookies were baked. For the Seniors' Reception ice cream was made. Candles in the class colors of all the four classes were made by the girls and sold from booths at the Girls' Basketball Tournament. At various other High School functions candles were sold and the proceeds used to buy table linens for the department. Three luncheons were served by the girls in a very creditable manner. The first was on Wednesday, April 30, when one class entertained the Girls' Basketball Team and their coach, Miss McCurdy. On May lst, a second class luncheon served to Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Broad, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Zimmer, Mr. R. B. Kellogg and Miss Davis. The third was given in honor of the Basketball boys on May 2nd. Others will be served before the end of the year.

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DOMESTIC SCIENCE The department of Domestic Science in schools has been the result of the broad educational movement for a more practical education in all lines of work. It is the beginning of a movement to provide for girls an education suited to their needs. Home Economics has been defined by the American Home Economics Associa- tion as including The economic, the sanitary and esthetic aspects of food, cloth- ing and shelter as connected with their selection, preparation and use by the fam- ily in the home. The primary object of the course is to prepare girls for homemakers. How to prepare and serve meals is not only studied but also the value of the different foods in furnishing heat to the body and building up the tissues. A thorough study is also made as to the cost of food stuffs in relation to their fuel value. The work in Domestic Science, established this year for the first time in Cen- tralia High School, has been divided into two groups: Cookery and Garment Making. In sewing the girls have made their dish towels, sewing and cooking aprons as well as clothing for themselves, the last article being a tub dress. Their rapid pro- gress can be noted by the fact that the first week of school a number of the girls were heard to ask: On which finger do you put your thimble? The sewing done in school has given the girls confidence in their ability to sew for themselves as well as the desire to do so and some of them are proudly wearing garments they DOMESTIC SCIENCE KITCHEN

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MANUAL TRAINING Although manual training is one of our newly adopted courses, it is one of the most popular ones. The boys enter into the work with a will that ensures success, and is a restg a change from the regular routine of school life. During the term we have accomplished a great deal. We have furnished our shop with benches, tool racks, lumber racks, and like articlesg Our drafting room with such articles of furniture that were necessary, besides the little odd jobs and pieces of furniture supplied to the other departments of the high school. In the accompanying cuts are shown our drafting room and shop. Although drafting is new to most of us, it is interesting, and most of the boys are apt pupils. At the beginning of the term, we produced working drawings of the different parts of a work bench, such as those shown in the cut of the shop. Then we were given the whole bench, assembled, and also drawings of bench-hooks, tie racks, umbrel- la stands, in pencil. Later on, when we had shown ourselves capable of produc- ing a drawing with good lines and correct measurements, we were allowed to ink and trace. From these tracings were made the blue prints of the different articles. After we had worked out and drawn the plans of an article we were allowed to make it in the shop. Here we were more at home and able to show ourselves capable mechanics. We have furnished not only the high school building with such articles as were needed, but have made pieces of furniture and bric-a-brac such as tables, chairs, foot-stools, taborets, drawing-boards, tie-racks, magazine DRAWING ROOM