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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1934)
T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN DOINGS AT THE PRACTICE HOUSE P age 3 that it have a well-balanced diet, plenty of milk, sun The present group at the practice house are enjoying shine and fresh air. I have learned many ways of the their stay and trying to be dependable and do the work child so I can tell when to ignore or pay attention. to the best of their ability. They are Hazel Thomas, Home Economics has also taught me that you your Grace Celestine, Philomina Kwina, Catherine Sher self will pay the penalty for a child that is spoiled man and Juanita Newman. The three girls who are when it grows up. I have been taught by Home Eco nomics the proper way to dress a child, how to guide repeating are showing much improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Turney were dinner guests recently. him to form good habits, howto wait on and think We all enjoyed having them. Mr. Turney kindly for himself, also to teach him how to act in company played some of his compositions for us. Mrs. Turney and teach him good manners everywhere, at the table, in play and at parties. accompanied him. The following essay took first place in a contest in VI. Home Economics has taught me how to care for the sick, what is needed in the diet and how to keep the the related work course. patient as comfortable as possible, how to tempt them How M y H ome E conomics E ducation to eat, help them in a way that will make them feel H elps A t H ome they are not so helpless, show7 them how to keep them By Clementine Hugues selves interested in something they thought would I. Home economics has helped me to plan well bal never be of any use. I have learned the meaning of anced meals. It has shown me how important it is to first aid and how to fix minor ailments such as a sprain have so many calories for each person every day, how or a broken bone until you can get the person to a important it is to have the right vegetable with differ doctor. I have learned how to cure a headache, a nose ent meats. When and how to serve meals. What we bleed, a bruise, a sprained ligament and also I have should have for breakfast. Home economics has also learned you must always use a disinfectant on an open shown me that we must feed sick people according to cut. the disease of the person. Home Economics has taught me that safety-first II. Home economics has helped me in marketing. and saving always win in the end. For meat it has shown me the difference between chuck, loin, rump, round, etc. It has also helped SHOPS me to know what to ask for when meat is wanted for The machine shop students have finished a molding stew, when I want a roast, when I want meat for outfit and are preparing to make brass castings of broiling or what to get for soup. various designs. Louis Youpe says when bigger and III. Home economics has taught me how to wash better castings are made the machinists will do them. clothes and the necessity of doing it properly. I have The blacksmiths recently have done a very skillful learned how to test material to see if it is a fast color job in making over an orchard disk of their own de or if it shrinks. I have learned how to shrink material, sign. It is a fine job and it is a credit to the boys and how to clean wool, how to press woolen clothes, how their instructor. to steam velvet to make it look fresh. I have learned The barbers are making good progress in their wrork. to make my own clothes, consisting of under-clothes, The newer students have shown marked improvement dresses, hats, coats, etc. and how to alter clothes and in the art of clipping hair and shaving cheek and jowl. also how to make over clothes that are too small or too The painters are working industriously at many large. spring jobs. Last week they painted the pitcher rack IV. I have learned to plan meals to carry out color for the students’ dining hall and put three coats of schemes and how important it is to make your menu paint on fourteen garage doors about the campus. including breakfast, lunch and dinner together to see Mr. Kunkel and his plumbers are making water that you have left no vitamin, mineral, protein, or carbo-hydrates, etc., out. I have learned to make the spouts for the cleaning and dying plant which is near ing completion. table attractive so that people who think that they are SENIOR NOTES not hungry find they are mistaken. Home economics has taught me how to act in company and how to eat The seniors upheld and sealed tradition on Easter properly, which is all very important. Sunday Morning by rising at one of the younger hours V. Home Economics has taught me how to take care of the A. M. and traversing through the mists and of children from their arrival until they grow up. I rains of the dawn to the log cabin. It is said that the have learned how necessary it is for the child to have bacon, eggs, coffee, pancakes and other edibles were enough minerals and vitamins and how important it is cruelly and unmercifully done away with.
