DEPARTMENT REPORTS 77 



Many of the children have learned to like vegetables which they would 

 not eat before. Others have learned to eat and to like milk and eggs. 



There are many benefits to the college students enrolled for this work, 

 among them being the development of a sociological interest, direct 

 contact with the results of improper feeding, practical experience in the 

 managing of children from the ages of 8 to 14 years and practice in 

 conducting health classes. It also makes it possible for them to enter 

 a vocation other than teaching home economics in the high school and 

 two of our students this year have gone into health work; one in the 

 state of Michigan and the other in the Southwest District of the Amer- 

 ican Red Cross. 



CLOTHING (n. E. 50a and 90) : 



The content of these two courses has been almost identical this year, 

 preparatory to nuiking the Freshman sewing course uniform for all 

 students next year. 



In the Clotliing courses the aim lias been to present problems more 

 from the standpoint of selection than construction. Selection is made 

 from the economic, Iiygienic, artistic and technical viewpoint. 



Lectures from the following local merchants have been of great value 

 in teaching selection, especially from tlie economic point of view: 



Mr. iSprowl, of Sprowl Brothers. 

 Mr. Metcalf of ShubeFs Shoe Store. 

 Mr. Baker, of F. N. Arbaugh & Co. 



Two representatives from Mill's Dry Goods Company gave demonstra- 

 tions and talks and, through the courtesy of Mr. Crotty, who furnished 

 the material, the Dennison Company Representative gave a demonstra- 

 tion of costumes and various articles made from their products. 



In H. E. 50, which includes the study of children's clothing, an experi- 

 ment was carried out by an Instructor who has been a designer of 

 children's clothing, constructing one series of garments according to 

 factory methods, followed by one made according to custom methods. 

 It 'was found that conditions in the college work room did not duplicate 

 factory conditions sufficiently to make it a problem to be continued. 



Ill H. E. 52 the work in tailoring lias been in charge of Mr, Jaques 

 Joseph, a Lansing Tailor. This has proven much more satisfactoiy than 

 the plan followed last year of sending the students down town for this 

 training. 



H. E. 5Ji has been limited to a special problem in dress design. 



FIELD PROBLEMS IN TEXTILES (H. E. 55) : 



The purpose of this course is to permit the student to do advanced work 

 along the line in which she is most interested. One student this year spent 

 half of her time in one of the interior decorative studios in Lansing and 

 the other furnishing the guest room of the Practice House with a limited 

 amount of money. 



Another student, who was a transfer from another College and who 

 was interested in shop methods of dress construction, spent her laboratory 



