Saginaw High School - Aurora Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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COOKING ROOM.

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A few feet down the corridor is the iron stock room, where the extra iron is kept for both the machine shop and the forge room. The forge room is at the back and right of the building. The work is all done with tools. There is a large automatic fan for the forges and also for carrying away the smoke. There are twenty forges and twenty anvils, also an individual tool stand for each boy. The boys learn to hammer and shape the iron while it is hot. They have preliminary exercises at first, but later, useful articles, such as sled runners, are made. The foundry is on the left, and is equipped to accommodate twenty pupils with individual molding troughs, and the other necessary machines. After making a pattern in the Mechanical Draw- ing class, the boys are taught to make sand molds, pour in the hot iron, and thus develop their pattern. In the wood turning room there are double benches, each supplied with a lathe. There is room for twenty boys, each doing individual work. There is also a band saw and pattern maker’s lathe. At the benches are three sets of tools, one to be used in common, and one to be cared for by each boy. He must keep them in order, and keep them sharp. Here, as in all of the other shops, is a motor, used exclusively for the machinery of that shop. Adjoining this is the carving room. The boys work at individual benches, and learn the handling of tools. They also learn joinery work, as for door, and relief work. Some of the specimens of the work done in wood were little trays, Indian clubs of differ- ent woods, dumbbells, cabinets, wooden saucers, napkin rings, etc. In the seventh and eighth grade carpenter shop, the boys have mostly bench work. They learn the use and handling of simple tools. Little racks and other useful articles of a similar nature are made by them. There is a wood stock room for the rough and extra lumber. Here there are two machines, a planer and a saw, so that wood can be made into whatever shape desired. Both Mechanical and Freehand drawing rooms are com plete. In the freehand, the aim is to train the eye, and teach the appreciation of beauty. In the mechanical drawing the aim is practical, and the pupil must be so exact. 15

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that, from his drawings of furniture, machines, houses, etc., a carpenter would he able to work. Phe departments for the girls are exceedingly inter- esting. 1 he average number in the cooking classes is twenty- four. Each girl has individual gas burners and cooking utensils. The work consists of investigation of foods, their chemical construction, and action, how cooking affects diges- tion, and the general science of feeding. The girls learn not only how to prepare a meal, but what dishes to group together in making out a menu, and also what foods arc best for different seasons of the year. Later in the year, the work leads to emergency nursing, the preparing of bandages, ventilation, etc. 1 hat a conception may be had of how to do work in all departments of a house, a suite of rooms has been beauti- fully and artistically furnished. Passing from the kitchen to this suite, one goes through the pantries and comes first to the dining room. The furniture in the dining room is the style of the so-called “Old Mission Furniture.” and has a dark, unpolished finish. The toning of the walls is terra cotta. Here the girls are taught how to serve, and what to serve, for a well balanced meal, and also how to make the menus attractive. Next is the sitting room, the toning of which is light green. Here the chief aim is to have things substantial, in good taste, and to have everything harmonize. 1 lie bed room is a model of daintiness and simplicity. The girls learn the care and importance of ventilation of this room, and also to have the furnishings very simple so as not to catch dust. The laundry has all of the necessary equipment. The chemical side of the work is shown, as the action of soap on the materials, and also the care of the linen for the dining nuun Ms'Tea riled- On the third floor are the sewing rooms. T he aim is that a girl may learn to do practical sewing in tTre.-Torne, from the simplest kind of handwork, to droL .making, aft needle work, and millinery. All through the work there .is the study of fibres and special study oT materials, cotton, wool, linen, and silk. The gymnasium, with its perfect equipment, is thor- 17