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KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1918-19.
(Hljc Nprfssily of Bomr iEronomira in SUtral Hrljonla.
BY MATTIE ATKINSON,
Home Science Department.
The rural communities are being rapidly awakened to the value and necessity of Home Economics in their schools. Tho. people are fast realizing that it is through the study cf Heme economics that the’r daughters are trained in th:> profession of homo-making, which is a very necessary profession for all girls to master.
Happily the days are passing, when the feeling prevails that “Anyone can keep house.” We have come to realize that housekeeping is a profession, for which intelligent preparation is necessary.
Some mothers seem to think that their daughters can easily learn how to cook and keep house when they have to do it. It is quite possible that an intelligent girl may, after many trials and tribulations and much waste of time and energy and money, become a fairly good housekeeper. In the light of advancement in science during the past twenty-five years, however, may we not expect seme advance in the methods of conducting a home? Indeed, we may.
A complete course in Home Economics not only enables one to acquire knowledge of cooking and sewing but, also, dietetics, laws of health and the sanitary requirments of the house. It teaches values, both absolute and relative, of the various articles used in the home, including food, the wise expenditure of money and energy.
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KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1918-19.
HOME SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
We know that Home Economics is very essential to all schools, mid most especially to the rural schools. It is the rural communities (hat raise the greater portion of the foods which have to be preserved, in order that our nation be fed. In the Home Economic Department the rural girl learns the best methods of preserving and caring for these foods in the home.
It is, also, almost impossible for people in the rural communities to keep ice in the summer; and consequently, it is very hard to keep foods. By the use of the iceless refrigerators, which the girls arc taught to make, this inconvenience may be partly avoided. The i;irls are, also, taught to make fireless cookers, fly traps, dish racks, ( tc., all of which require very little expense and are very valuable to the home.
Just at this particuar time, when the people of the rural districts of our country were forced to feed almost the entire world, we found the Home Economic Departments exceptionally valuable. It was through these departments, that the use of substitutes was taught, and the girls learned lessons in economy they had never dreamed of.
Since “The home is the center of the universe, and the mistress the center of the home,” in her hands are the keys of home happiness. The responsibilities of the nation are in her charge. Let us, therefore, endeavor to train our girls that they may rightly perform their future d £y.