Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

Page 32 text:

Art students in Miss Ervin's classes last year designed and executed the striking and colorful frieze in Miss Peoples' sewing studio. Costumes ol many lands parade round the walls in a lovely decorative border. The figures are several feet high. The colors are symbolic of the countries to which they belong. Hughes will certainly have the best and most economically dressed girls in Cincinnati if they follow the suggestions given in their home economics classes. Freshmen are taught the principles of making wise selections of becoming ready-made clothing. In class they have made blouses and dresses of cotton ma- terials, Household buying is taught sophomore girls. Wool skirts such as those shown below were made in class. junior girls made simple suits, to be donned for Easter. Then, too, sweaters were knitted by the upper grade girls. All classes made triangular bandages for the Red Cross. THEY SEW AND SAVE Emily Kueffner wears a plaid skirt with her red blouseg Marian Seyfried used plaid, al- Marilyn Doerner looks quite while Mary Lee Stiles wears a yellow sweater with her so. Audrey Fallon displays her well in her large-plaid skirt, brown pleated skirt. Emma Mauei sports her three- plain tan skirt witha lovely red Janice Kaderli wears her pleated plaid skirt with a dark blue sweater. sweater. three front-pleated skirt, just the fashion for today.

Page 31 text:

GIRLS WHO TRAIN IN HOME-MAKING TRAIN EGR DEFENSE afghans were used for Bundles for Britain: now tl1ey are used for our own soldiers. Next, they make a skirt or a jumper, and then a blouse, shirt, or jacket. Some of the girls have been heard wondering if they should risk making one of those new three-piece plaid suits, a date dress with a petticoat ruffle, or one of the ballet length formals. The second-half of the year the girls begin cooking. All joking aside, there are few cases of indigestion, as Mrs. Robinson can testify. The first thing the cooking classes prepare is biscuits, and cocoa. They learn that the film that forms on the top of cocoa can be pre- vented by putting a lid on the saucepan when the cocoa has been prepared. They also find that handling the dough makes the biscuits tough. Later, the girls make muffins and an omelet or griddle cakes, as they prefer. They soon realize that muffin batter should not be beaten-indeed, it should hardly be mixed. This is their recipe used for muffins: l cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 tablespoons fat, l egg, 2 tablespoons sugar, M2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Sift the dry ingredients together. Beat egg. Add milk and melted and cooled fat to beat- en egg. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Stir until the flour disappears, but not until the mixture is smooth. Bake in greased muffin pans of 4000 F. for 20,30 min- utes. This year the girls will learn to prepare more simple and more wholesome dishes than ever before, because of the war. The girls prepare cereals and rice dishes and also cream soups and different types of apple dishes. Many girls have given up some of their study halls to stay in Room 16 to teach girls and boys to knit, and help the more accomplished ones unravel their difficulties. There are 300 girls knitting for the Red Cross and 255 signed up to knit. These girls have made sweaters, mittens, scrafs, afghans, blankets, beanies, and helmets for needy children and for our soldiers. The girls are learning to become good homemakers and to help win the war. Page 27 The holiday spirit at Hughes always builds a sum which replenishes our Student Aid Fund, and sends Christmas donations to various helpful institutions in the city. The home economics girls take orders for cookies, they have baked hundreds of cookies.

Page 33 text:

Cooperation among the students is evident in the purchase by the Salesinanship Club of a large quantity of wool for the Red Cross knitting. Too bad the picture is not in color, the varied hues were lovely! Albert Arndt is holding yarn for Ruth Medick. SALES CLUB BUYS WOOLg GIRLS KNIT FOR RED CROSS janet Bartling wears her pleat- ed skirt with xi tan Hsloppy joe SWCZILCT. Jean Blerseh made a green skirt to wear with her argyle sweater. Alice Frille displays her brown wool pleated skirt with a green sweater. Irene Wengers skirt ot plaid goes M'Cll with ner tan sweater. A chocolate brown skirt with two pleats adorns Shirley Ruebel. who wears a contrasting white blouse. That neat little plaid hat belongs to the wool frock that Clara Vieson wears. A red sweater with a brown skirt is worn by Jessie Taylor.