8 BULLETIN 540, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sewing. — A sewing room should have tables 3 feet wide, allowing 

 2£ feet in length for each student. The general equipment should in- 

 clude sewing machines, dress forms, mirror, fitting stand, skirt 

 marker, cabinets; and the individual equipment, scissors, yardstick, 

 foot rule, tape measure, pincushion, emery, pins, and needles. Equip- 

 ment cost about $1 per pupil in addition to general equipment. 



OUTLINE OF LESSONS. 



The following order has been used for each lesson: (1) The subject, 

 stated as a "Problem." (2) The chief ideas, listed as "Points to be 

 brought out." (3) The references, which have been confined to 

 material available in bulletins of this department and of the various 

 State colleges and experiment stations. Two textbooks should be 

 obtained, one on foods and one on clothing. The choice of these must 

 be left to the teacher. She should select them only after a careful 

 examination of those available. The one on foods should be some- 

 thing more than a book of recipes; it should consider the principles 

 of cookery, composition of food, and the principles of dietetics. The 

 book on clothing should contain material on the selection of clothing, 

 clothing standards, application of design to dress, the hygiene of 

 dress, and a study of fabrics as well as drafting and the principles 

 of sewing. If any part must be omitted let it be the latter, for the 

 teacher can easily provide herself with a textbook on drafting and 

 sewing so as to give the students the necessary information. 



There should be in the library some additional books dealing with 

 the composition, nutritive value, and digestibility of food. A good 

 recipe book will be useful not for arbitrary use but for suggestions 

 and comparison. It should not be misused. A good book on home 

 laundry work, one on house sanitation, one on the care of the house, 

 one on personal hygiene should be available for reference work. 

 Copies of a good household chemistry, household bacteriology, and 

 household physics will be found useful. 



There are a number of such books * available at the present time. 

 For a teacher of home economics to keep up to date in her work she 

 must see the new books as they are published. Most publishers will 

 send copies for examination which can be returned without cost to 

 the teacher if they prove unsuitable for her purpose. 



Bulletins are issued frequently which will be of help. These can 

 in many cases be obtained free. The teacher's name should be on 

 the mailing list of the Department of Agriculture for the Monthly 

 List of Department Publications. She may send for any which 

 interest her. 



(4) Under "Correlation" are suggested ways in which other 

 courses may make use of home-economics subject matter, thus in- 



• See U. S. Bur. Ed. Bui. 613 (1914). 



