Excerpt from Household Arts for Home and School, Vol. 2: Care of the Home Cooking and Serving Selection of Food Laundering Hospitality

Introduction and mending one hour each week, because they had learned at school how much time is needed for this work and how hard it is to do everything alone.

This book will tell you how the girls helped Miss Ashley to keep the Sunnyside apartment clean; about the food they learned to buy, cook, and serve; about the parties and other good times they had; and about what they did at home to help their mothers.

Everybody at the Ellen H. Richards School believes that a girl should make use of what she learns at school in her home, and it used to be great fun for the girls to compare notes to see which of them practiced what they said they believed. They took great pride in doing some special work on Saturdays and Sundays, and their mothers were quite surprised at times by what they did.

Their great interest in their work was due no doubt to the fact that they helped to decide what they should do in their home-making classes.

After the girls had arranged the new kitchen Miss Ashley surprised them very much one morning by asking, What would you like to do in this nice new laboratory and at Sunnyside this year? They never before had had any choice in their school work and did not know just what to say, so Miss Ashley told them to talk it over among themselves and with their mothers, and hand in a report next time. The girls stood on the corner a long time trying to think out some good answers to the question and finally decided to meet at Dorothy Vincent's home after school and make some plans.

If it is to be a home-making course I suppose we should learn to do those things that we are asked to do at home, said' Edith Potter. Mother thinks that I might help more than I do, but she always wants me to wash the dishes and I hate dishwashing.

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