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Volume 12 Article 1 Number 5 The Iowa Homemaker vol.12, no.5 1932 The oI wa Homemaker vol.12, no.5 Gertrude Hendriks Iowa State College Kathryn Soth Iowa State College Ella Gertrude McMullen Iowa State College Hazel Leupold Iowa State College Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Hendriks, Gertrude; Soth, Kathryn; McMullen, Ella Gertrude; and Leupold, Hazel (1932) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.12, no.5," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 12 : No. 5 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol12/iss5/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HOMEMAKER • Sixi:y-five Men Go Domesi:ic ••. By Gertrude Hendriks She Comes From Si:ockholm •.. By Kathryn Soth When i:he Cows Come Home ... By Ella Gertrude McMullen Hobble, Hobble, LiHie Skiri: ... By Hazel Leupold • NOVEMBER, 1932 VOL. XII NO.5 Few Grains of Salt ... How Many Can You Answer? A 1. In what section of the country It's a New Program considering children's f eeding, clothing, is gumbo served? 2. To what family of vegetables HE Child Development Department habits, playthings, music and books, fam ily attitudes, methods of study and read do chives belong, and for what T at Iowa State is cooperating with the purposes are they used? Iowa Child Welfare Research Sta ing materials for parents. The sponsors of this radio hour suggest 3. What is a samovar? tion at the University of Iowa in pre 4. What is sago, and where is it senting radio talks on various phases of that child study groups might assemble for the program, and follow the radio obtained? child development, over stations WOI, 5. What are tabascoes? Ames, and WSUI, I owa City, this fall. presentation with a discussion meeting. 'l' his would afford an immediate consider 6. What does the term " kippered" Last year the department at Iowa City mean? gave a weekly program over WSUI, pre ation of the ideas and opinions expressed by the speakers. - 7. What is fo-rcemeat, and for senting staff members of the child de what is it used? velopment and parent education depart 8. What are lentils? ment& in talks. A research study was Boys Want t o Know How 9. What is aspic, and how is it carried on to find out the effectiveness ONTRARY to the popular belief used? of these programs, and it was discovered C that sister is the only one who cares 10. What is a bisque? that only persons in the sout h and east to know how to act properly at the portions of the state had been 1·eachect proper time, brother also would like to (Answers c:m page 13) The new series of programs from the t wo make a good impression, both as a host stations is an attempt to cover the entire and as a guest. state. An identical program known as This is demonstrated by the fact that 'l'hey express it by stating that they want "Understanding Our Children" will be 17 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade boys to know ''how to act.'' So far as is pos broadcast weekly at 8:00 p. m. on Mon in Central Junior High School at Ames sible they pick out the subjects for dem day f rom WSUI, and at 2:30 p. m. on have requested a Home Economics Club onstration themselves. Wednesday from WOI. wherein they may learn ''how to act.'' If it is possible in ti1e future to have The 1932 '' Undmstanding Our Chil 'l'hey attend this club for a half hour a a separate club for the ninth grade boys, dren'' program will be introduced witlt week. The period i& recreational as well Miss Alice Dahlen, in~tructor in home a theme song selected from Tschaikow a& educatjonal. There are no assignments. economics education at Iowa State, and sky 's ''Nut Cracker Suite.'' The fifteen Most of the time is taken up with dem leader of the club, feels that it might be minute talks prepared by membe1·s of onstrations and actual practice. an improvement. 'l'he ''girl problem'' eithm· the University of Iowa or Iowa The fact that the boys requested this enters in by that t ime, while seventh and State College child development and par club themselves shows that they felt a eighth grade boys are for the most part ent education staffs will include topics definite need for something of the kind. entirely unconcerned with girls. 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Spillbury, chaperon, trouble-man could even be called-presto T take advantage of leap year for two Mrs. Spillbury, Mrs. Gribskov and the chango-a track had been built (no and one-half months more, but she cook, the entire project is canied on by doubt by an engineer-to take care of may ''hang her pin'' on a man who is students. Nels Clnistensen, a senior from the refuse. getting practice along the line of kitchen Dyke, is the ''go-between'' for the cook One of the men, evidently interested in duty and house cleaning. Furthermore, and the students. Ralph L. Kunau of surveying, was dissatisfied with the table she may make her choice from arrangement. He got his eye at least 65 men (there are more down to the level of the table, on the waiting list) who for the squared the whole thing up and most part are upperclassmen. eventually had all the tables ar A cooperative dormitory for ranged precisely straight. men, opened this fall at Oak According to Christensen, the Lodge, is providing such in hobart was the center of attrac struction and practice, and is tion of all the men the first saving for each man an aver-· night the cooperative system age of ten dollars a month on operated. And, it seems, even board, besides a saving on room. men do back-seat driving-al Mrs. Ella P. G1·ibskov, in though there is only a motor in charge of the women's cooper sight. (Don't credit Christen atives at Clara Barton and sen for this sidelight-it came Alice Freeman halls, also has f1·om a woman.) The hobart supervision of the cooperative operator sets the mixer for the functions of the men's dormi first speed. "Put her on sec tory. ond,'' someone shouts. But from One of the principal differ another back seat d r i v·e r, ences between the cooperative "Strike it up to third. " Rest for men and those for women assured, however, the potatoes is the men have a cook who always do get mashed! makes all the pastries, prepa1·es What sort of meals do these This is the way they do· it some of the food, and assists men serve themselvesf A day's those who are on kitchen duty, while the Sabula, as the dormitory treasurer, col menu from the first week of operation women do all their own cooking. lects housing payments and works with included: Breakfast: canned apricots, Time must be budgeted in the cooper the auditing office. cream of wheat, top milk, buttered toast, ative just as time is divided by a house No matter which way you turn, there coffee, cocoa and milk. wife among her duties. When a man is is enthusiasm. There's singing in quar Lunch: Baked potatoes, chipped beef serving Dn breakfast-lunch committee, it tets-with every part coming out strong gravy, pickled beets, bread and butter, mean~ getting up early so that breakfast -in sextets, in mobs, and even occasion spice cake and milk. can be served by 6:45. Then there ate al solo numbers. But it's never singing Dinner: Roast pork, mashed potatoes, vegetables to be prepared for lunch and before breakfast. That would seem to gravy, buttered green beans, hot rolls and dinner. The men do this-peeling pota start the day wrong. Singing comes after butter, watermelon, milk and coffee. toes, cutting veegtables and preparing dinner when the dishes are being washed. Breakfast and lunch are served cafe various items to assist the cook. Besides ''Mechanical minded househusbands'' teria, which means that each man brings the breakfast-lunch committee there is - that's what the men who work on the to the kitchen his own service equipment. another which has charge of dinner, and kitchen committees are. They show en But dinner is served formally and on there are two committees whose respon thusiastic interest in the how, the why, Wednesday nights and Sunday nDons sibility is to keep the dormitory clean. and the wherefore of everything from the there are three courses, including ice Then there is one lone man who arises hobart (which mashes potatoes and does cream and cake or cookies.