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summer? What should be done with soiled laundry prior to 
washing? 
13. What is the most economical way to buy flour, sugar, cereals, 
butter and vegetables? How should they be kept in the house? 
14. What is the law in your community concerning the disposition of 
trash, ashes and garbage? How will you care for these things 
in the house? If there is no law what will you do with them and 
why? 
15. Under what conditions do germs thrive and vermin infest? How 
can both be kept away? 
16. Plan the work in your house for one week giving the daily 
schedule and covering all necessary points. 
17. Tell how to make and use a fireless cooker. Explain what it is 
good for. 
18. Take care of your own bedroom for one month. Report just what 
you do and how long it takes. 
REFERENCES: 
“Housewifery,” !L. Ray Balderston, Lippincott. 
“The Home and the Family,” Helen Kinne and Anna Cooley, The 
Macmillan Co. 
“Foods and Household Management,” Helen Kinne and Anna Cooley, 
Macmillan. 
“Shelter and Clothing,” Helen Kinne and Anna Cooley, Macmillan. 
“Feeding the Family,” M. S. Rose, Macmillan. 
“Handbook of Food and Diet,” American School of Home Econo- 
mics, Chicago. 
MAGAZINES : 
“The House Beautiful,” “Ladies Home Journal,” “Delineator,” 
“Good Housekeeping.” 
HOME NURSE*** 
SYMBOL— GREEN CROSS 
1. Describe care of the room under following points: 
(a) Ventilation heat and sun; (b) Character and amount of furni- 
ture; (c) Cleanliness and order; (d) Daily routine; (e) General 
“atmosphere.” 
2. Demonstrate bed making with patient in bed... Bed must be 
made in seven minutes. 
3. (a). .Show how to help a patient in the use of the bedpan and 
urinal, (b) Care of utensils, dishes, linen and their disinfection. 
4. Bodily care of patient. Know all the following and be able to 
demonstrate any two points asked for: 
(a) Bathing; (b) Rubbing; (c) Changing of body linen; (d) 
Combing hair; (e) Lifting and changing position; (f) Arranging 
of supports; (g) Temperature, pulse and respiration; (h) Feed- 
ing when helpless. 
6. Local applications, hot and cold, (fomentations, compresses, ete.) 
(Demonstrate at least one point). 
6. Common household remedies and their use: castor oil, soda, olive 
oil, epsom salts, aromatic spirits of ammonia. 
7. First treatment of some common household emergencies, cramps, 
earache, headache, colds, chills, choking, nosebleed and fainting. 
8. How to give an enema. 
9. Proper food for invalids and serving it. Be able to prepare and 
serve five of the following. Two foods must be shown to ex- 
