HOUSEHOLD ARTS IN EDUCATION 2852 



HOUSELEEK 



For the high school girl who goes to college, 

 the state universities and technical colleges 

 usually credit for college admission high school 

 work in household arts, but some academic 

 colleges do not. In these higher institutions, 

 the household arts student may take a general 

 home-making course which gives due attention 

 to shelter, foods, clothing and management, 

 or she may specialize in any one of the voca- 

 tions based on household arts dressmaking, 

 costume designing, house decoration, dietetics, 

 food inspection, consulting or managing house- 

 keeping, tea room or restaurant or dining room 

 management, household arts journalism, lectur- 

 ing on household subjects, and, especially, the 

 teaching of household arts. The latter offers 

 a wide range of opportunity, with specializa- 

 tion possible in various subjects, such as foods 

 and cookery, textiles, clothing and manage- 

 ment, and also in various types of work such as 

 that of the elementary teacher or supervisor 

 of household arts, high school or college teacher, 

 rural extension worker, supervisor of girls' can- 

 ning clubs and teacher of continuation classes. 

 This last type of work, continuation classes, 

 bids soon, under the encouragement of laws 

 on the subject, to make available in every com- 

 munity, urban and rural, an opportunity for 

 young women who are at work or home, for 

 mothers and for employed houseworkers to 

 study the practical elements of cooking, sew- 

 ing, care of children, home nursing and other 

 aspects of housekeeping, in daytime or in even- 

 ing classes for a few hours a week. 



The girl who is considering whether she will 

 study household arts beyond the high school 

 should make inquiries as to courses given by 

 the normal schools and the colleges or uni- 

 versity of her state or province; she might 

 well also examine the courses of such institu- 

 tions as the University of Chicago; Teachers 

 College, New York City, and Simmons College, 

 Boston. In the universities she will find op- 

 portunity for training in research and investi- 

 gation in the household arts field, which itself 

 is coming to furnish a profession for a lim- 

 ited number of persons, as in the investigations 

 of the Department of Agriculture in Washing- 

 ton and of certain of the universities. 



Practice. In studying household arts one 

 should use every opportunity for practical 

 experience. Wise parents will let the daughter 

 cook for a time, or do the marketing, or keep 

 household accounts. All children should begin 

 early to share in certain household duties; a 

 small allowance to be used for some purpose, 



as the purchase of clothing, will teach money 

 values and responsibility. It is- a wise rule to 

 consider one's own home and see whether what 

 is studied in household arts may not be applied 

 there such as conveniences in the kitchen and 

 definitely planned menus. It is with the same 

 purpose of adding experience to theoretical 

 knowledge that in many high schools the girls 

 in household arts do practical work in the 

 school lunch room, or undertake the serving of 

 tea or simple catering in private homes, or 

 help as "accommodators" in getting dinner or 

 washing dishes, on order for a family. In the 

 best colleges there is a similar emphasis on 

 practical field work in lunch rooms, catering 

 service, practice houses or apartments, and in 

 private homes. Experience is as necessary for 

 the household arts expert as is hospital work 

 for the doctor. B.R.A. 



Related Subjects. The reader will appreciate 

 the wide range of allied topics presented in these 

 volumes, as follows : 

 Costume Industrial Art 



Domestic Art Interior Decoration 



Home Economics Sewing 



References. In a rapidly-developing field such 

 as household arts, reference for information may 

 often best be had to higher institutions teaching 

 the subject, rather than to books. The home eco- 

 nomics department of a good college or university 

 in one's own state or province can usually furnish 

 detailed information ; the state or provincial de- 

 partment of education will furnish facts on the 

 school situation in any particular locality. The 

 following references may be consulted : Bulle- 

 tins on Education for the Home, Parts I-IV, 

 United States Bureau of Education, Washington ; 

 Journal of Home Economics, Station N, Balti- 

 more, Md. (monthly, devoted to household arts 

 education) ; Syllabus of Home Economics, pub- 

 lished by Journal of Home Economics, Baltimore, 

 Md. ; chapters on Home Economics, in Annual 

 Reports of United States Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation, Washington. 



HOUSE 'LEEK, or LIVE '-FOREVER, a 



group of plants common in almost every part 

 of Europe, usually found on walls and roofs of 

 cottages. The name live-forever refers to the 

 vitality of the hardy little plant, which grows 

 wild in the Alps upon rocky soil. Upright 

 stems about six inches in height bear branches 

 of purplish star-shaped flowers. Its petals equal 

 in number the sepals, or divisions of the calyx, 

 and are inserted at the base of the calyx. The 

 leaves are usually arranged to form compact 

 rosettes. The leaves, when bruised or cut and 

 applied to burns and to the stings of bees or 

 wasps, afford relief. They are beneficial also 

 when applied to inflamed sores, though not so 

 widely used for that purpose to-day. 



