Rice Avenue High School - Unitas Yearbook (Girard, PA)

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Home Economics Being the first year this Course has been taught in our Community, the question was asked, Would it be a success, and wculd it be beneficial to the students? I sincerely think it was beneficial-and being beneiicialawas Z1 success. At first the Course was hard, we thought we were going to dislike it. Naturally it was a difficult matter, we were just starting High School, and as such a student has to adjust herself. The subjects taught this year were: Sewing, Cooking, Art, General Science, Home Nursing and Textiles. In Sewing, making our uniforms for Cooking class was our first project. Some other things we made were slips, French pants, and our last problem was a dress. Sewing, we found out, is more than threading a needle, and sewing a few stitches in a piece of cloth. A dress doesn't go together by itself, either. Cooking, in my opinion, was the simplest of all subjects. We learned how to make hot breads, cakes, doughnuts, pies, soups, croquetts, how to prepare meats, and many other delicious foods. We were taught to keep our desks, drawers, stoves, and tops of our desks in excellent condition and always be neat and clean while cooking. Art was another fascinating subject. We painted shoeftrees and coatfhangers and were taught to paint designs on them. At Christmas time we sewed and stuffed cats. These were very attractive. After Christmas we took the colored paper on the inside of envelopes and pasted 'them on match boxes, boxes, cans, and everything that would be attractive and shellaced them. Italian Hemstiching we made next. This is very beautiful work. - In General Science we learned about trees, the solar system, automobiles, airplanes, communicable diseases, the land surface, camera and many other things. I'IomefNursing was a subject that the majority of the students liked. We were taught to bandage, about Health, the care of a baby, etc. In Textiles, we learned about different fabrics, their history, how the fiber grew, what they looked like under the microscope and all about them. The Cooking, or Home Economics Class was divided into two sections, called the Morning Class and the Afternoon Class. The Morning class, of course was composed of students taking Home Economics: the Afternoon Class-vice versa. Ccontinued on next pagel Page SixtyfOne