Georges Township High School - Georgian Yearbook (Uniontown, PA)

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Home Economics Every year Home Economics is becoming a more important subject in the curriculum of high schools, common schools, night schools, continuation schools, vocational colleges and universities. At tirst this course merely meant cooking and sewing but 'gradually it has come to mean much more than that. Now this course includes not only cooking and sewing but courses in Household Management, Dict- ics and Nutrition, Household Decoration, Chemistry of Foods, Hygiene, Physiology, Costume and Design, Textiles and History of Cooking. At present there are scarcely any up to the minute high schools that do not include at least cooking and sewing in their course of study. For a long time people questioned the advisability of teaching cooking and sewing to our girls and boys in the high school. If we but look back over history we Gnd that the question of food and clothing is inextricably bound with progress and civilization. Each step or im- provement in the food and clothing of a people denoted a step in their civilization. So if these things are so intertwined with the making of progress they surely ought to be taught in our schools. Let us go back for a bit and look how our subjects of Home Econ- omics are shown to be 'connected with the progress of man. First we had pre-historic man, the earliest knowledge we have of man, he had no knowledge of tools or fire. Then! comes the Mliarlv Stone Age, man had some little knowledge of fire, his food consisted of vegetables and meal. eaten raw. During the Hllate Stone Age, man had tire pretty well under control and cooked his food. During this age he also did spinning, weaving, tilling of the soil, making of pottery and raising of stock. This then brings us to the lowest stage of civilization called Sav- agcryf' By this time man had invented some simple weapons such as the bow and arrow and was better able to control the food supply. He also had learned the necessity of the storing of food for future use. As man then enters the stage of Barbarism, he is making use of metal to the extent of having a rude iron plow drawn by animals. This furthered the production of crops and also necessitated the taming and breeding of animals. It isn't until civilization has been reached that we really come to 68 r ! !