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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 S71. Elements of Cookery for Homemaking.—Second Term.
10:30-12:30; P.H. 3. Credit, one session hour. Laboratory Fee $5.00.
Miss Brinton.

This course is designed for the inexperienced housekeeper or for the student who
is majoring in some other subject than Household Arts. It deals with the elementary
principles of cookery, menu making and table service.

Household Arts S74. Menu Making.—First Term. 10:30-12:30; 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 Matthews 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 S75. Dietetics.—First Term. 8:30-10:30; 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 S76. Cookery of Special Diets.—Second Term. 8:30-10:30;
P.H. 3. Credit, one session hour. Laboratory Fee $5.00. Miss Brinton.

This course will deal with the preparation of foods and service of trays for the
sick and convalescent. It will also consider the various nutritional diseases and their
dietetic treatment.

Household Arts S78. Advanced Dressmaking.—First Term. 8:30-10:30;
W.R.L. Credit, one session hour. Fee $5.00. Miss Andrews.

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

Household Arts S79. 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 twenty.

Household Arts S80. 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 S81. Home Nursing and Child Care.—First Term. 8 A. M.
P.H.B. Credit, one session hour. Miss Wilson.

This course is intended to deal with the prevention and care of illness in the home
and practical problems in the care and training of children. It presents a study of
growth and development of the child in relation to its needs from birth to adolescence.
The formation of correct health habits, proper food and clothing are especially emphasized.