INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



ence to their manufacture, financial value, 

 wearing qualities and suitableness for vari- 

 ous purposes. The drawing and designing 

 of dress and furniture and the preparation 

 of working drawings for wooden articles 

 are required exercises. Harmony of color 

 in dress, in house furnishings and decora- 

 tion is studied. 



Domestic science includes courses in 

 general and in invalid cookery, in the plan- 

 ning, preparing and serving of meals, in 

 marketing, and in the various forms of food 

 preservation. The students practice in well- 

 equipped kitchen laboratories. They in- 

 vestigate foods with reference to produc- 

 tion, value, financial and nutritive, diges- 

 tion, assimilation, relations to the human 

 body, dietetics and the balancing of rations. 



Home economics includes a study of the 

 planning and furnishing of houses, with 

 methods of heating, lighting, plumbing and 

 ventilation; systematic housekeeping, the 

 management of cooking, cleaning and sew- 

 ing, and the perplexing subjects of domestic 

 finance and service. 



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