Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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 IN recent years the world has come to the realization that preparation for home making should be a part of every girl’s education. In order to give this much needed training we offer a full year’s work in sewing. The aims of this year’s work in sewing is to teach the student how to select clothing, how to make garments, how to make over materials into something useful and howr to select and buy attractive clothes for different types of people at a reasonable cost. The class, consisting of thirteen girls, is kept quite busy making ten or more useful and attractive garments a piece. They also mend socks, patch clothes and do the various other little jobs of mending that every housewife must know how to do. The various garments made this year consists of teddies, bloomers, night gowns, pajamas, cotton dresses, wool dresses, silk dresses, children’s dresses, and numerous articles for Christmas gifts. After completing the sewing course each girl is better fitted to face the work that she may be called upon to do in later life. She w’ill be of some service to the world, for the world loves to see a busy little housewife who knows how to sew, to mend, and to patch. —Frances M. Yasaitis, ’26. Page Eighteen

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Commercial Department rplIF. subjects offered in the Commercial department this year were: shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, commercial law and commercial arithmetic. The Typewriting department is equipped with nine Remington machines and six Woodstocks. The Woodstocks were added to the equipment this year and all the Typewriting students were given a chance to learn the keyboard of the new machine. A class was offered in Typing only and this was composed mainly of boys. A new feature introduced into the typing class by Miss Knoblock was the Rational Rythm Records. The Bookkeeping class was not a very popular class, being made up of a small number of students. The Twentieth Century System of Bookkeeping was taught. This class was also conducted by Miss Knoblock. The class in Commercial law, under the supervision of Mr. Guin, was made very interesting. This class was composed of Seniors and some real lawyers were turned out. Commercial Law was followed the second semester by Commercial Arithmetic. Miss Coe, the new mid-year teacher, had charge of this class and made it very progressive as well as interesting. The main principles of business arithmetic were taught and speed and accuracy drilled upon by the students.

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k The Cooking Class fTlHE COOKING CLASS, under the supervision of Miss Cade has done A some mighty fine work this year. The class is rather large, consisting of twenty students, but by dividing them into groups of fours this difficulty has never been any handicap. The aim of the course is to give the girls that knowledge which will make them more efficient in practical housekeeping. All work is arranged and planned with this idea in view. Practical problems of a housewife as well as practical experience in the exercise of her duties are emphasized. The first thing that a girl learns on entering the class is how to preserve fruits and vegetables. Next she takes up the planning of menus and methods of serving them. The making of candy, the cooking of various dishes, both plain and fancy is given. Practical experience is offered the student in preparing the food for the football banquet, the “Owl” banquets and in running the school cafeteria. The student after finishing this course is better fitted for home making. —Violet Holcombe Page Nineteen