This course of study has been planned for the
seventh and eighth grades in Oregon schools. One period
each week, or ninety minutes or more, is needed.
The study or cookery should be closely correlated with
the other school branches. High ideals of workmanship,
neatness, accuracy and skill should be...
''Country life is a book whose pages are yet uncut."
This I firmly believe, and one of these pages treats of
the decoration and furnishings of the country house.
Because of this great need in the country and because the problem of fitting up a country house is now confronting...
"Bacteriology is such a broad subject that a life-time
spent in its perusal would fail of an entire knowledge of
the subject, so the authors have chosen a field which is certainly one that ought to interest every individual because
it pertains to milk, one of the most important foods...
"The purpose of this volume is to give practical assistance to those who may be interested
in basket-making. The problems discussed in this book have been carefully planned and execut
ed, applying fundamental principles of color,
form, and design. Many of the difficulties
in basket-making, which we have experienced,
cannot...
Basket making is a primitive art which has been
practiced by man as far back through the ages as history
can record. When Moses was found hidden in the bulrushes
by Pharaoh's daughter, he was in a basket which his
mother had woven. When the Israelites were returning to
the...
The art of bread making has been handed down from one generation to another for
centuries, with gradual improvement until
at the present time we have mastered what we consider
a perfect method. The aboriginal savages did not use
a leavening agent by which bread can be made light.
They...
"The boiling and spinning of sugar and the making of candies are classed among the 'frills of cookery'. But though everyone cannot hope to master all the intricacies of this branch of the culinary art, there is no reason why young people should not become, with advantages to themselves, expert...
The experiment under discussion was carried out in
Corvallis, Oregon, during the week beginning Sunday
April 3, 1910 with a family of six persons, consisting of
a mother, who acts as a housekeeper and housemother; a
young man, an instructor in the college; two boys, one in
college and the...
The education of the child should consist of
the organization of acquired habits of action and tendencies to behavior which shall fit him for the world
in a social and physical sense. The subject of social
effect is often dwelt upon with great length and detail,
which to often the...
All living things require food but none make use of
such a variety of foods as does the human race. Many
half civilized people of the earth live on very coarse
materials. The American Indians, for example, do not use
a great variety of foods such as we do, but...
Probably no other process of such importance is so
little understood as that which takes place within our
own bodies. We know that we drink water and are refreshed, eat a meal and are strengthened, that the food
we consume is in some way converted into living tissue;
but the...
American Literature, previous to the Civil War, is
of necessity confined closely to the writers and writings
of New England and New York. At present however a gradual widening of the literary field may be clearly discernible. The South and West now contribute their share,
and no one can truly...