Bryant Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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JUNE. 1925 3! I he home economics cottage has in it a combined dining room and living room, bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen. It is under the supervision of the home economics teachers. Miss Knowles and Miss Hill. T he picture is of a group of 8A girls at a luncheon. Six girls go in for a period of two or three days, at a time, according to the number of classes and the size of them. The group is divided into two divisions consisting of three girls who are host, hostess, and waitress. They work in the kitchen the first day. while the other three clean the cottage. The next day they exchange work. The object of preparing these meals is to teach the girls the proper meal planning and serving. Below is a well balanced menu planned by one of the groups: Fruit Cocktail Baked Potato in the Half Shell Creamed Cheese on Toast Bread and Butter Prune Forte with Whipped Cream The cost is kept down to an average of fifteen cents per meal. The main course dish is served by the host and the beverages are served by the hostess. She also has the responsibility of carrying on a pleasing conversation. The subjects vary from table manners to the news of the day. This work makes the girls realize the responsibility mother has in caring for a home. It also places the girl in a position to be of much help to mother. Gwendolyn Hoel. Alice Ames. One of Our Cooking Rooms Who could wish for more interesting work than to be working in a nice, clean, cooking room, with every modern convenience? Well, this is our cooking room in Bryant Junior High. In the seventh grade, cooking is most interesting to the younger people. They prepare cereals, plan and serve luncheons. learn to make one kind of candy, a task which everybody likes, both large and small. Muffins, baking powder biscuits, simple cakes, and pop-overs are made. too. Later on. the work in the eighth grade is still more interesting, because one really learns to cook and make more grown up things as mother does. Our cakes are delicious, but the pies melt in your mouth. We bake various kinds of meats, potatoes, macaroni, and other good things. Best of all is the ice cream and sherbet that we make ourselves. We make many kinds of salads

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30 JUNIOR LIFE The Girls' Latin Club Our Girls' Latin Club is an organization which meets regularly in room 308. Every girl who is a member must take Latin. Our motto is “Semper Fidelis. always faithful. I am sure that every member has done her part in living up to the standard we have set. The meetings are held weekly. We discuss different facts at our meetings, and we also have many gay times. Girls taking Latin are welcome to join our club. The Nome Economics Cottage

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32 JUNIOR LIFE for the cafeteria. Our cottage work is most interesting. We prepare and seive our own luncheons. When we first come into the cooking room, we don our aprons and caps, sit. and take any recipes or information Miss Hill or Miss Knowles has for us. Every Monday our account books are handed in and corrected. In this way we can keep track of our expenditures. Come on. girls, learn to be a good cook and prepare for the future! Marybhlle Christensen. A Class in Mechanical Drawing Mechanical drawing is one of the subjects taught at our school. It is needed especially by architects, draftsmen and engineers. However, most every man has occasion to use this subject at some time during his lite. Before a building, bridge, or piece of machinery can be built, it must be designed and drawn. Following the drawing, a blue print is made. The object is then built following the directions of the blue print reader, who interprets the blue print. This work is interesting to most boys. I consider it an ideal vocation. It brings a good salary and it also brings the boy into contact with intelligent men. Odd Rovick. DO YOU KNOW THAT— One of the books of etiquette printed in France in the fourteenth century advised the man of fashion to wash his hands every day and to wash his face almost as often ? Britain's love for meat is evidenced by the fact that no less than 1.997.807 tons of beef and mutton were consumed in that country in 1923. the highest total for the last six years? Many of Japan's quaint prints show the crab and fisherman on the beach? The king crabs, found mostly off Japanese islands, measure from three to five feet from tip to tip of their great claws.