DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 79 



expense incurred are made and submitted as part of the report of the project 

 upon their return to the College in the fall. 



The alumnae have undertaken the earning of fifteen hundred dollars to 

 furnish a home economies practice house on the campus. This will mean a 

 valuable asset to the training of women of the division in that it will afford 

 them a real home in which to apply the theory studied in the classroom and 

 in which to work out the problems of home management, family nutrition, 

 house furnishing, labor saving devices for the home, and child care. 



The placing of club "C," the women students' boarding club, by the State 

 Board of Agriculture at the disposal of the Home Economics division to be 

 operated as part of resident instruction in institutional management, gives a 

 splendid opportunity for unusual training in all lines of large quantity cooking 

 and the management in feeding daily six hundred persons. 



HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPARTMENT. 



The Household Arts courses are planned to train young women to be better 

 homemakers, vnth a keen appreciation for beauty, economy and technical 

 skill involved in the choice and making of clothing and the choice and arrange- 

 ment of house furnishings. 



A number of changes have been made in the content of courses which have 

 given a wider range to the subject matter offered and a larger field of appli- 

 cation on the part of the student. 



In Household Art 1, Clothing, the freshmen were given more advanced prob- 

 lems this year, both in the first and second terms. A new project was worked 

 out the second term. Each student did some custom work which consisted 

 of two child's garments '..girl's and boy's) . The mother of the children selected 

 the type of garment, but consulted with the student on choice of material, 

 color and design suitable to each child. The course gave the students a 

 broader outlook as to uses of household art training outside the teaching 

 field. The work awakened great interest among the students in the business 

 opportunity in opening shops for making children's clothing. 



The work in Household Art 3, Textiles, has been broadened in both content 

 and apphcation. A study of raw and manufactured fabrics, chemical effects 

 of laundrying, household and physical tests for identifying fibres has been 

 made. The students are required to make exhibits of suitable materials for 

 underwear, children's play clothing, women's dresses and table linen, to study 

 the use of deodorants on clothing and removal of stains, field trips were made 

 through woolen mills, carpet factories and other industrial plants. 



In house furnishings the latter part of the term was given to the execution 

 of several projects in actual furnishing or remodeling of rooms and apart- 

 ments. The students chose the project and carried out the problem on 

 limited sums to meet local conditions. 

 The projects included were : 



1. Furnishing of the varsity club room, gymnasium. 



2. Remodehng girls' rest room on $25. 



3. Rearranging and furnishing Y.W.C.A. room on $30. 



4. Rearranging and furnishing of small apartment on $25. 



In millinery it was possible to increase the amount of work accomplished 

 and to give students some preliminary training in commercial millinery, the 

 latter line of work was especially successful in the making of hats for children. 



Advanced Clothing, problems in tailoring and individual clothing project. 



