Renton High School - Illahee Yearbook (Renton, WA)

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economy and proper methods of selecting, pre- paring and serving food, to teach her to know food values, to know the relation of domestic science to the other sciences which are so closely correlated with itg and to know how to apply this knowledge in an intelligent manner in her household work. She should also know something of the manufacture and dying of cloth, the value of different materials and their proper selection and use. ln short, domestic science aims to give a girl a keener interest in housework and to make her capable and inde- pendent. Ri E BURROUGI-I'S FISHING RESORT, LAKE WASHINGTON

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Eumratir Svrivnrv Another event makes this an important year in the history of our High School. lt brought the establishment of domestic science. The laboratory is ideally situated in the south- west corner of the basement and large win- dows let in the sunshine on two sides. The equipment is for a class of twenty-four students and is modeled after the equipment of one of the most improved domestic science laboratories in the Seattle schools. The course was introduced as an elective subject and a large class enrolled. Twenty girls worked happily and enthusiastically per- forming experiments and cooking on two afternoons of every week after the laboratory was completed last October. Besides the les- sons in cooking of food, work was given in the theory of some phases of household science. 'The food principles were learned together with the composition of food materials and the nutritive and dietetic value of each constitu- ent. The class spent an equal amount of time sewing. While they were learning to make the different kinds of seams and stitches, they were also learning to use patterns and to make underwear, waists and dresses. The aim of the course is to teach each girl

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