Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 52 HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPT. The girl who graduates from the Household Arts Department of this school will make an ideal wife and will also have a trade to work at in the time between her graduation and her marriage. Upon graduation, she is able to command a good salary in fields that are not overcrowded. If she specialized in Millinery or Dress¬ making in her third year, she will be in a position to open up a smart Millinery or Dressmaking estab¬ lishment of her own after she has worked at the trade for a short time. If she preferred the Foods department, after very little pract¬ ice she can open an attractive Tea Room. These are three of the pos¬ itions that she might work for. Are they not worth while? She understands how to dress appropriately and attractively, as well as economically—not cheaply —but at a real saving, because she can make and design her own clo¬ thing to suit her station, her type, and the occasion. In her home, she and her family will be happy. Because of her work in Art, she will be able to drape a curtain here and place a cushion there that will make her house into a home. In her Foods classes, she learned how to keep her husband from con¬ tracting that dread disease indig¬ estion, and her children will never have blood poisoning because in her Nursing -classes she has learned how to avoid it. She and her child¬ ren will always be stylishly dress¬ ed and will always wear the “Right Hat on the Right Occasion”. Lucky is the man who gets the Household Arts Department Grad¬ uate!

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 51 a teacher of Millinery and entered Toronto Normal School. After graduating the following summer, she attended the Train¬ ing College in Hamilton and obtain¬ ed her certificate which qualified he r to teach Millinery in any Tech¬ nical School in Ontario. «- VALEDICTORY Mr. Chairman, teachers, stud¬ ents,, ex-students and friends of the Windsor - Walkerville Technical School: To us, whose turn it is to-night to take leave of the active part in the pleasant duties and associat¬ ions of this school, has come a full realization of just what this com¬ mencement means to us. For the last three years, we thought the day would never come, this day when school books would be put aside forever and we would take our places in the assembly line of this great industrial and commerc¬ ial world. Many of us have a ' ready become acquainted with this world of busi¬ ness of which we have so long been dreaming, and find it vastly diff¬ erent from the life here in Tech., and perhaps greatly different from what we had anticipated. Although new interest now takes first pos¬ iti on in our attention, there will al¬ ways be a special place in our hearts for dear old Tech. For our teachers we have but one message, “Thank you”. Thank you for the efforts which you have ex¬ tended to help us. Thank you for your personal interest and many kindnesses. You have tried to give us something of your own broad outlook on life. We will not forget. I know that I am speaking on behalf of my class when I say that we do not want to be cast aside. Let us still be a part of the Tech¬ nical School and this need not be “Good-Bye”. So, as we leave our educational home to enroll in the large school of life, we extend a wish that as long as the Windsor-Walkerville Technical School exists, it will con¬ tinue to flourish as it has in the past few years, and that in the years to come our best citizens will be able to point with pride to this school where they received their education. GLADYS KERR

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The Windsor-Walkerville Technical School Year Book 53 Cooking Room MILLINERY In the millinery department of the Technical Course, Miss Modern becomes acquainted with the ess¬ entials of her wardrobe. She soon finds out that her hat is one of the most important articles in her whole costume.lt will either make or mar the best and smartest look¬ ing dress. To be smart and chic, a hat does not necessarily have to be expensive. Some of the best look¬ ing hats made here at school by the girls cost less than three dollars. But, the reason for their beauty in line and colour is that in the mill¬ inery room line and colour are taught constantly, and Miss Mod¬ ern soon learns which colours are best for her and just what style of hat she can wear. After taking the millinery course one can find work in many varied places of business. A girl need not 1 e just a maker of hats. She car become a millinery teacher or go into business herself. No two grad¬ uates of the Technical Course have similar positions. One has become a millinery teacher, , one works as a maker and trimmer of hats, one does parlour millinery at home, and lastly, the writer of this article does millinery as a side-line, but has returned to school to further her knowledge for a good business training. NELLIE OSTROWSKI -o- CLOTHING COURSE One of the Technical School’s main departments is that known as the Household Arts Department, an important section of which is the Clothing Course. This course teaches: 1. Principles of sewing. 2. How to apply these principles. 3. Choice of materials. 4. Choice of suitable clothing. 5. Care of clothing. One of the insistent demands of the modern world is that a woman be smartly dressed. She must be