8 BULLETIN 540, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Seurng.—A sewing room should have tables 3 feet wide, allowing 
24 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- 
1 See U.S. Bur. Ed. Bul. 613 (1914). 
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