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HOUSEHOLD ARTS.

Household Arts S 70. Household Management.—First Term. 10:3011:30;
C. H. 13. Credit, one session-hour. Miss Brinton.

This course combines the mechanics of housekeeping with ideals of home making.

System in management, the budget, etc., are studied as a means to the end of better
home making.

Text: Successful Family Life on a Moderate Income, by Mary Hinman Abel,
published by Lippincott.

Household Arts S 74. Advanced Cookery.—First Term. 8:30-10:30;
P. H. B. 3. Credit, one session-hour. Laboratory Fee $6.00. First
Term. Miss Brinton.

Menu making basis for work. Some experimental work, also marketing, given.
Class limited to sixteen members.

Text: "American Home Diet"—McCollum & Simmons—Frederick Mathews Co.,
Detroit, Mich., with Boston Cooking School Cook Book, by Fannie Farmer, published
by Little, Brown & Co. as supplementary text.

Uniform required, consisting of two white Hoover aprons (Butterick pattern No.
2848), two towels and two holders. These must be provided before coming to Summer
School.

Household Arts S 75. Dietetics.—First Term. 2:30-4:30; P. H. B. 3.
Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00. Miss Brinton.

This course presents the fundamental principles of human nutrition and their
application to the feeding of individuals, families, and large groups under varying
conditions. It includes a study of the chemistry and physiology of digestion; metabolism
of protein, carbohydrates, and fats; the 100 caloric portion as a unit; feeding
of children and invalids; the balanced ration.

Text: a. Feeding the Family, by Mary Schwartz Rose, published by Macmillan.

b. Laboratory Manual, by Mary Schwartz Rose, published by Macmillan.

Uniform required same as for II.

Household Arts S 78. Advanced Dressmaking.—First Term. 8:3010:30;
W. R. L. Credit, one session-hour. Fee $5.00. Miss Andrews.

Drafting, cutting and fitting shirtwaists and skirts designed from foundation
drafts. Dresses draped on forms without patterns. Students provide materials.

Household Arts S 79. Millinery.—First Term. 2:30-4:30; W. R. L.
Credit, one session-hour. Fee for wire, buckram, thread, etc., $5.00.
Students furnish other material. Miss Andrews.

Course includes pattern cutting, millinery stitches, making of wire frames and
buckram frames. A summer hat of straw braid and piece goods—hat of some suitable
winter material. Class limited to 20.

Household Arts S 80. Textiles.—First Term. 11:30; W. R. L. Credit,
one session-hour. Fee $2.50. Miss Andrews.

This course considers the primitive form of the textile industries in order to
make clear their later development; the modern manufacture, the identification of
textile materials, their names, kinds, prices, and widths; variation in weave in regard
to beauty and strength, care and repair of fabrics; removal of stains; adulterations.

Required with Household Arts 78. General chemistry prerequisite.

Class limited to sixteen members.

Text: Clothing—Choice, Care, Cost, by Mary S. Woolman, published by Lippincott.

Household Arts S 81. Home Nursing.—First Term. 12:30; P. H. B.
Credit, one session-hour. Mrs. Hanger.

This course deals with the prevention and care of illness in the home. It discusses
such problems as maintaining health in the home, early recognition and care
of common ailments, first aid in common emergencies, choosing and preparing food
for the sick, personal hygiene, and nursing under a doctor's direction.

Household Arts S 82. Child Care.—First Term. 4:30; P. H. 2. Credit,
one session-hour. Mrs. Hanger.

This course deals with the practical problems of child care. It considers these
problems as they relate to prenatal care; babies and their care, feeding, clothing,
common ailments; the growing child, problems of the school child, etc.

Note.—Admission to any of these courses is conditioned on the completion of a
two-years' course in Home Economics.