Bradley University - Anaga Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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VF 'n1'.L J-'I' J 4 4 Domestlc Economy 4 H l ik 1- ik ii -1, 3- ir I 4- if J -1 -s -Y 1 llli UUNIICSTIC lCL'tlNtJlXlY lJlCl'rXR'l'lXlliN'li was a part nl' J the very beginning ol liradley lnstitute, it being organized along with the other clepartments before the builtling was tin- ' ished. The head of the rlepartment Cillllt' to liraclley Institute H 8 8 early in the autumn ol. IHSDT, and, upon asking lo see her rooms, 8 8 was shown llll a ladtler, which she climbed, and then took a stroll across tl1e stringers i11 order to look out 11pon the delight- ful view, which to-day makes part of the attractiveness of the third Hoor rooms devoted to this work. Every girl who tal-ies the course i11 Bradley Institute spencls here one llfllll' each day during four of the six years she is in the school. Tl1eF1rst two years sees her one class period each day in the sewing room, where she learns not only to make her samplers and place them neatly in her book, with the descriptions necessary to refresh her memory whenever she wishes to recall stitches, their uses and their applications, llllt she learns also to cut and lit her own garments, and ma11y times she carries home finished products ul- her ow11 skillful fingers, which llOt only clothe her body, b11t which give to her pride a helpful stimulus, because she herself knows that the ability to make the garments she wears so happily, means to her power lu keep herself incle- pendent and helpful wherever she may be placed. During the third year a girl is in Bradley Institute, she may, if she chooses, take technical dressmaking, and some of the girls hncl themselves wearing tailor-Htting jackets in which every stitch has been set by their o1v11 lingers. In addition to this handiwork, each girl learns something ol- tl1e protsluction and man11fact11re of the materials used for clothing, and tl1e interest in the labor which the world gives for clothing, not only ol- womankincl, but of all humanity, grows deeper when the definite knowledge of the cotton, linen, wool and silk is added to the ability to use these materials lor fashionable clothing for immediate 11se. During the fourth year, while they are commencing their chemistry, the girls come into the kitchen laboratory, having had some knowletlge of botany, of insect life, and of physics. In this kitchen laboratory they cook every day, one class period. NYl1atever products of the desks are ready at lllllCll time are sent to the south end ofthe floor, where the students and teachers congre- gate to eat their lL1l1Cll. These products from the girls' cooking tables sell very readily, are eaten eagerly, and we have had, 11p to date, no deaths to record.

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The girls learn to apply to their cooking the knowledge of principles gained in the sciences, and during the second year of food work they learn to serve meals daintily and well. XVhenever the Board of Trustees honor Bradley with a meeting, these girls provide the luncheon, cooking and serving it, then washing the dishes and putting the cupboards in order after the meal is hnished. Commencement time sees these same girls entertaining the friends of the Institute, when they Win for themselves many words of Commendation. During the last year in food work, they plan houses which shall cost a certain sum of money: they plan the furniture for these housesg and they not only plan and calculate the cost of, but cook, serve, eat and wash the dishes for meals of which the class partake, until each girl becomes apt, as host, hostess, waitress and guest. Then they take up the functions of food, to which they apply their knowl- edge of physiology and chemistry, and learn to think more wisely day by day, about the kind and amount of food which they. themselves, put into the body to increase the strength of body and brain. ' The Spring Quarter gives them a few weeks of special hygiene, during which time they try to learn something of the special care needed to keep up the strength of the body they possess. - The two sewing rooms, the lunch room, the long kitchen, the kitchen laboratory, the lecture room, the practice dining room and the office belong to the Domestic Department, and, while girls only are in the classes, the boys seem quite as happy in the lunch room as the girls, and we find that many of them are interested in the kitchen laboratory, especially if their girl friends happen to be making fudges, or doughnut day comes at the time they are visiting classes. A few plants in the windows, many girls in their pretty aprons, a cheery welcome for all the students, as well as the visitors who come on to the Hoor, and happiness in work make this Hoor a pleasant place. In the coming years, when Bradley girls shall be scattered all over the land, they will remember many of the lessons learned in the Domestic liconomy rooms, and will be thankful, not only for the happy times they have had, but for the hours of definite tasks which have given them power to carry easily much of the work which is almost certain to come into the hands of an American woman.