Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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DOMESTIC ART First we will introduce you to the sewing machine, the dress form and the drafting set. This equipment is not alto- gether unfamiliar to you, of course. It is practically all we use here. You are an academic student and wish to enter the class. Very well. We hope to interest you and at the same time to teach you something useful. The in- struction you receive here will fit you better to adopt standards of right dress- ing for school life and for the business world if you happen to enter that line of work. Your friend who has had the aca- demic work and wishes to continue will, of advanced work. She will be taught not only to plan, buy, and make a suitable wardrobe for herself but also to teach the same to her students. Her work will include the renovating of old clothes and the ethics of right buying. In view of the present prices of fabrics this training will be of tremendous assistance in reducing the H. C. of L. We are offering also a plain sewing course, a dressmaking course, an art needlework course, which includes the making of clothing for children, and a laundry course. Perhaps you will be interested in the millinery course which we are planning for next summer and expect to give every season thereafter. After this semester the Department will be known as the Clothing and Textile Department. Page Thirty-One Elizabeth Condit B.S. Professor Domestic Art course, be given more

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DOMESTIC SCIENCE Courses offered by the Domestic Science De- partment during the past year included classes in General Domestic Science, Fruit Canning, Dietetics, Home Management, Home Nursing, Eugenics and Presentation. The classes in Eugenics deserve special com- ment since the subject is to be required of all girls who take out certificates from the school. Of all courses offered by the Department it is perhaps the most vital. The classes here have awakened statewide interest and Miss Cave has met with dif- ferent bodies of educators to discuss the advisabil- ity of carrying the subject into high schools. Correspondence courses and Extension courses add to the work of the Department. Miss Cave con- ducts two classes at Rozel on Saturdays, one in Eugenics and the other in Home Management. The Domestic Science Girls have served various luncheons and banquets, both to faculty and city organizations. Among the larger of these were the Knights Templars Banquet to one hundred and twenty-five, the Chamber of Commerce luncheon to one hundred, and a faculty banquet to eighty. One of the largest functions occurred last summer when the Depart- ment prepared the barbecue dinner, which was served to over six hundred people at the Home Coming celebration. A feature especially enjoyed by the girls was the outdoor demonstra- tions of camp cooking. As a part of the General Domestic Science course Miss Cave gave actual demonstrations on outdoor hikes and the class had the fun of learning and applying all the arts of campfire cooking. A large amount of new equipment has been secured. When present plans are worked out, the entire laboratory will be furnished in white. An electric range, electric ovens and plates will replace the gas which has been used in the past. A model kitchen and a model dining room will serve for the smaller banquets and luncheons and for practical demonstration in home management. The college class in Presentation receive practical training in teaching of Domestic Science in the Academy cooking classes. Page Thirty Lo Ref. Cave BS, M S. Vi-ofessoi- Domestic Science

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FINE ARTS There are a few things connected with artists ; an attic room, live cents a day for food, a bevy of half-squeezed paint tubes, and a balmy odor that is a cross between turpentine and a chemistry lab. We have the attic room all right — the very toppest room in the coliseum — “third floor back.” Many students who have a few extra pounds avoir- dupois are taking art, not aesthetically, but for its reducing qualities. For. best results you should have the preceding class in the industrial building and with great speed mount to the art room and fall exhausted in the door. Fainting ones have thus Georgja Wooton provoked some of the most artistic sketches from Pvofessov Public School Art others in the class — some of those fagged creations so popular in recent marbles. As for the half-starved, one sandwich-a-day stuff, we have it. After a student buys a few illusive (illusive means much) art supplies his wallet is carried merely from habit. We must be up to the minute, so we have taken seriously to Batiking, bas-relief, evolved coffee cans, and the like. We ad- mit even tho the Ladies ' Home Journal does say you can make Christmas gifts for nothing, that we have figures proving otherwise. If you want hand designed gifts for arts sake, — very well, — otherwise get them from any good mail order house. However, with all our Bohemian ways, we are doing things. Our “Bet- ter Speech” posters were a sensation — lack of space makes press notices im- possible. Our “Come To Chorus” dodgers raised the attendance at least five hundred and we also refer you to the notable art work here in The Reveille. The work in “Applied Design ” has enabled fond couples to no longer delay marriage. A man need not worry over the cost of house furnishing if his wife has been an art student. She can make furniture from cigar boxes, enameled gray and with some of those darling cubist flowers scattered here and there. Gunny sacks evolve into cushions for the choice lounge and in some instances where there is a scarcity of house space, more useless furni- ture has been painted directly on the walls with such acute perspective that the couple were never suspected of economizing. Page Thiity-Twc