Volume 14 Article 1 Number 2 The Iowa Homemaker vol.14, no.2

1934 The oI wa Homemaker vol.14, no.2 Edith Fezler Iowa State College

Lucy Merrick Iowa State College

Barbara Apple Iowa State College

Bernice Borgman Iowa State College

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Fun, Training and Friendships ..• By Edith Fezler Take Off at: Eight: . • . By Lucy Merrick Reciting Without: Studying • • • · . By Barbara Apple Teachers May Be Nervous ... By Bernice Borgman •

MAY-JUNE 1934 VOL. XIV NO.2 Coyered book ends, painted lard ca:n s which appear as attractive waste baskets, Tea Table Topics colorful notebooks, gay pieced pillows • • • and countless other ingenious things which tho 4-H girl has discovered and Children Select Foods tho way, a nice settee for in front of her has made at a small cost are in the rooms window. of other girls at college. " E VERY baby his own dietitian, " Onine Conard's 1·oo-m at Clara Barton is a far-fetched derivative of Hall is the setting for a quaint glas~ ''every man his own doctor,)) but there vinegar jug lamp which she made. She Sophomore Women Rledged may be some sense in it. According to also made its glazed chintz shade. Willa Dr. Clara M. Davis of Chicago, who r e­ HIRTEEN sophomore women and H elwig put to use an old wine j ug which T cently visited Iowa State Colege, this ono faculty member have been pledged she made into a quaint lamp. On·ine 's mad proverb does have wisdom, and in to Jack 0 'Lantern, honorary for sopho­ blotter pad is brightened by comers of her statement she has the support of a moro women. Miss Fern Goulding, assist­ ant p1·of essor of hygiene, was elected to hundred husky 5 year olds, children who 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111 11 111 1111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 have selected t heir own foods since the honorary membership. day they were weaned. RAISIN PIE Sophomore women chosen were : Bar­ The babies' tastes in most respects co­ bara Apple, Ames; Ruth Born, Story A bit of flour to.-nake the dough, City; Marjorie Countryman, Ames; Mary incided with accepted dietetic rules, but A cup of raisins fixed just so; Elizabeth Coykendall, Amfs; Ma1·y J ane ther e- were striking incongl'llities. 'rhe ~ ' h e oven hot, the fire tul'llecl low; CTowl ey, Ft. Des Moines; Ruth Dudgeo11, me:1ts and eggs which doctors stingily A pair of boys who want to know Ames; H elen Green, Wilmette, Ill.; Mary a.pportion, and the long-taboo banana are Just what is it that smells so high E lizabeth Koos, A mes; E lizabeth Little­ tho things they crave. Moreover, they Of spices-cinnam011- ::tnd why f ord, Downers Grove, Ill. ; J eanette Rich­ disdain the familiar balanced meal-a 3 They cannot sample it. 'l'hey sigh, anlson, Ames; Doris White, Council year old boy ate 10 eggs- and other Resolved to swipe that 1·aisin pie. Bluffs; lela Rnth Younkin, Mont rose; things,--at one meal. Another dined on a - Ba?'bm·a Apple. pound of baked potatoes and almost a Elinor Zoller, Council Bluffs. quart of milk. Yet at the end of a month, SECLUDED PATH records showed, the propo-rtions of dif­ Receive Honorable Mention ferent foodstuffs in their diets showed 'l'here's a path beside a brooklet t hat will smprising correlation with the ratios pre­ ever give me joy, H AZEL MOORE of Fort Dodge, j un­ scribed by experts. Where 110 worldly ca1·es annoy, ior in home economics, and E lnora As for manners, the neatness of the And my he:ll't will ever b e Shivvers of Des Moines, sophomore in 2 year olcls with their self-designed eti­ Free from so now and from troubles ; home economics, have received honorable quetto equalled the daintiness of the most filled with pleasant memory. mention in the Marshall Field and Com­ watchfully trained child of five. pany dress designing contest in which 254 'l'hc roya 1 colored violets from thei ,. schools competed. 'rhere were 6,000 en­ mossy beds of green trier. and the two Iowa State women 4-H Girls Fix Rooms Poke their heads up to be seen. ranked among the top 50. And ndmirecl by a ll who go Mrs. Marguerite Hopkins, instructor of OULDN'T you just like to know O'er the rustic bridge above them and t extile~ and clothing, directed the 42 W how some of the 4-H girls on glance down nt them below. Iowa State women who submit ted de­ tho campus make their rooms attrac­ signs for j acket dresses, sailor styles, in­ tive? Most of them have made many 'J'ho weeping willows bow to me :IS to a fcnnal afternoon dresses and convertible of their furnishings from discarded fur­ princess fine; dresses. Judging was based on original­ niture orange crates o-r empty spools. ~' hi s new world is now all mine ity. L et's take a peak into some of t heir 'l'o comma nd and love nnd hold rooms a11d see how attractive inexpenshe "J'il reality releases me from dreams that 'l'he fil-st home economics bui I cling Oil things can really be. a re so bold. the campus was first opened in 1911. In Blanche Rosa's room at the Delta - Bm·bam Apple. The present building was dedicated in Zeta house is an interesting set- book 1926. r~ck, book ends and two lamp bases made lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. from an old sewing machine which be­ tho samo glazed print which she used for Issues of the new educational deal will longed. to her grandmother. B lanche re­ her lamp shades. be presented at the eighth I owa Confer­ finished t ho a t'tic les herself. And of A what-not made of two boards and ence on Child Development and P arent course she wanted to make lamp shades many empty spools, is in Ruth Bowman's Education, June 19-21 in Iowa City. 'rhe for the bases, so she made them of glazed room at Alice Freeman Hall. ( Ruth, by conference, sponsored by the I owa State dimity. 'l'he little dressing table, which the way, was president of Iowa 4-H Club Council for Child Study and Pa1·ent Ed­ i r. really two orange crates, painted and g il'!s Ia t year.) Of course, the what­ ucatic.n, is open to all persons interested <'overed with a bright print provides ex­ not would not be complete without Ruth's in studying chilchen. tra storage space in her small room. family of china animals. Georgia }~ ox -lE- ·X- Pictures which she leamed to appreci­ has her :mimal family, too, b ut they are In 18G6 tl1e cleg 1· ec of Master of Do­ ate wh en she studied them in 4-H work t ho gingham dog and the calico cat.'' Be­ mestic Science, p1·obably the first recogni­ have a prominent place in Margaret sides in her room a 1·e a hooked rug, gay tion in the United States of home eco­ Ralph's room. A wooden box covered chair covers which lend a note of f es­ nomics lJeing appropriate for gmcluate with a print and with the top padded tivity and a very durable looking wooden work, was confer red 011 two gmduate stu­ makes an attractive storage box and, by box covered with green burlap. dents of I owa State. I'THE IOWA HOMEMAKER "A Magazine for Homemakers From a Homemaker's School"

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VOL. XIV MAY-JUNE, 1934, AMES, IOWA NO.2

Seniors Tell Edith Fezler College Years Bring Fun, -Training and Friendships

A NOTHER class of seniors-the class Mary B. Welch, \Vest, dormitory for At the same time s he will work toward -'-\_ of 1934-is hurrying about doing freshman wo.men. Harriet, who comes her master's degree at Columbia Univer­ last minute things before gradua­ from Avon, N. Y., aLso values the con­ sity. tion from Iowa State College. Senior tacts with counselors and instructors. She Flossie Will·i(lnu;, the 1933 Campus Sis­ students, because they are about to leave feels that the laboratories which Iowa ter Chief, whose home is at Villisca, feels behind the campus enviromnent, classes, that co llege has given her a far better contacts and social life, become more and sense of values and has taught her not more conscious of what college has meant only knowledge but the means of acquir­ to them. Interviews with senior women ing more knowledge. ''It has o.pened up on ''What did you get out of college ~ '' some very exciting sides of life that 1 have shown what a variety of benefits stu­ would have missed otherwise,'' she says. dents get from college. Next fall Flossie will be continuing her l<,riendships, fun, practical kno.wledge, art training at the New York University and the feeling of adequate training ob· School of Retailing. taincd at Iowa State College have been To Eil(l B1·ooks of Whiting, friends the high spots for Vi1·ginia Gm·b erson, have been the most impo.rtant part of whose home is at Sibley. Virginia, who college life. ''By this I mean,'' she says, was one of the 1932 Bomb beauties and ''not only girl friends, but friends on for two years was president of hm· so.r­ the faculty with whom I have worked in ority, took work in technical journalism outside activities. By working on commit­ and hom e economics. tees and being active in various campus Ethel W(lltz, who comes from Des groups, I have learned to know a large Moines and is a child development majo.r, group of instructors and students. Most feeLs that the contacts she has made with of the students here come from compara­ people and the practical experiences she State vrovidcs for practical work are o.ut­ tively small communities and their view­ has gained in nursery school have been standing. ''As an institution manage­ point is broadened by compa1·ing ideas. most valuable. She was one of the Iowa ment major, I think the practical equip­ Because outside activities are chosen ac­ State child development students who ment in the department, particularly cording to individual interests, I think studied at Merrill Palmer School, Detroit, the Home Economics Tea Room, is a student J'eceives the most lasting bene­ Mich., for a qua1·ter. Next year EthE'l better than that in any other middle fits from them. In high schoo.l there were plans to go to Columbia University, New western college. A large amount of prac­ some opportunities for leadership, but in York City, where she will work toward tical work is made poosible by special college the opportunities are increased her master's degree in child development. problems such as working at the Memo­ and varied. '' Eila, who has been this Associations here with tho faculty and rial Union and training in h,>me manage­ yea1· 's president of Omicron Nu,_ home students have meant most to Regina Kil­ ment,'' she says. This summer Harriet economics scholastic hono.rary, says that ilee of Ames. Regina, who is enrolled in has a job in a cafeteria at Chautauqua her most outstaJJding memory of her col­ the Industrial Science Division, is, among Lake, N.Y. lege cru·eer will be the opportunity she other things, president of Mortar Bo.ard, had of planning for and entertaining honm·ary for senior women. No one group "A BROADER viewpoint because of Isabel Bevier, outstanding home ooono ­ of associates, no one activity can be wider contacts has been one of the mist, when Omicron Nu and Phi Upsi­ singled out as being the moot worth outstanding results of my four years of lon Omicron brought her to the campus while, she feels, but all have been of college," says Vi1·ginw T1•rner of Gideon, this year. value. ''Of course, '' she says, ''I have Mo., who transferred to Iowa State from The Applied Art Department at Iowa received a lot of knowledge in my Lindenwood Girls' School, St. Charles, State is very good and the work worth­ dasses. '' Mo. Virginia, who has doMl her major while. So believes Ruth Pratt, who has Having to become adjusted to a new work in dietetics, has her dietetics ap­ studied textiles and art here and has ap­ envhonment has been particularly valu­ pointment beginning this J nne at the plied for a fellowship at the New York able to H(lrriet Anderson, president of Presbyterian Hospital, New Yo.rk City. (Contin1ted on page 16) THE IOWA HOMEMAKER When t:he Pilot: Says ''Take Off at: Eight:" By Lucy Merrick, '31

to Miami for a rest. This young girl rolling hills of Virginia, a huge woolen is going to Palm Beach. I'll have to blanket of black and white plaid. Round get the rest later. "Yes, we have 14 clumps of trees glisten like crystal and on. 0. K. So long." squatty pine trees bend down with ice 'l'hen my first difficulty a rises when coatings, look from the air, like flat one passenger can see no reason for palm trees. fastening his seat belt. It is a care­ Lucy Merrick fully enforced rule that all seat belts AWAKEN from my reverie to find the This is one of the series of vo­ be fastened on take offs and landings. I sports writer trying to tell me that cational stories sponsO?-ecl by He is finally convinced as the plane the pilot wants to speak to me. H e M01·tar Boanl, honorm·y [o1· senior r eaches the north end of the field and probably wants to tell me that the women. The write1·, a g1·acl1wte of the pilot runs up both motors. As we wea.ther beyond Richmond is bad and the Home Economics ancl T echnical start down the fi eld into the wind I we may have to wait over. It is always Jountalism Departments, has been must jump for the last seat in the back my job to tell the passengers such news air hostess with the Eastent Air and hook my belt as the wheels leave and the possibility that we may have Transport. the ground. Our next stop is Washing­ to cancel the trip and send them ahead ton, 1 hour and 35 minutes ahead. by train. When I stick my head in the cockpit, ERE I shall take time out from our the pilot only wishes to know how many " T HERE'S a great crowd on board H day to give some technical bits of would like lunch in Richmond. I listen today. Weather is clear to Wash­ information. The ship is a 15-passenger to a few minutes of Morse code on the ington, you'll probably get thru Curtis-Wright biplane. We have a first radio-our lunch will be ready when we all right. Bad tail wind for a few hours. pilot who does most of the actual fl ying land in 15 minutes. Your supplies are on. Take off in 5 and has the first responsibility. The co­ As we sail over the field to land, the minutes." pilot relieves him and sends and receives northbound ship from Atlanta is taxi­ This is my greeting from the field radio messages, reporting our positio11 ing up the runway. I tell the man sit­ dispatcher at Newark airport as I come every 30 minutes to the field just ahead ting next to me what a gay affair lunch­ into the Eastern Air Transport waiting and the fi eld we have just left. The eon will be with all the passengers from room at eight o'clock in the morning. flying hostess has charge of the cabin the other ship. For 30 minutes of bed­ We are going all the way through from nnd the comfort of the pnssengers. She lam 24 passenge1·s, 4 pilots and 2 host­ Newark to Miami, Fl~., today, a 10 hou1· has among her supplies, thermos bottles esses talk weather, the Giants, politics 1·un. My first glance goes to the pas­ of coffee and hot water, tin boxes of and the market. senger list; interesting people make a sandwiches and cakes, first aid kits, am­ "All aboard please. Northbound ship long trip great fun. monia capsules, pillows and blankets, and to Washington and New York. Now "Whew - some trip - the 'Notable a supply of unbreakable dishes. leaving from Gate Number 1.'' Special'." The wise-cracking pilot is "'l'hcre is Princeton's stadium, just to Five minutes later the same call comes reading over my shoulder. "It may be the left, the university is right b eyond. for us and we take off for Charleston, 1·ough to Washington and looks r~iny Now Philadelphia is that smoky blur S. C., 3 hours away. down the line. Wind may blow it out ahead. Way off there, see that blue I am overjoyed to find a crossword all right." line~ That is the edge of Chesapeake puzzle book in tre hands of the sports Then I hear - "0. K." - from the Bay. We are flying at 3,000 feet, higher writer. Someone is making a grand dispatcher. Gathering up my ever-pres­ than usual, to get above the wind. slam at the bridge table in the front ent suitcase, the morning papers and As we come over the bay the winds of the plane. 'l'he Russian girl finds it my list I trot down the runway after pick up and we get into some bumps. slow work to teach the corporation presi­ the pilot and co-pilot. The motors are These :n-e only air currents and seldom dent some new Russian words. whirling so I clutch my hat nnd papers cause distress. A puzzle fan gives up and challenges as the "prop-wash" snatches at them, to "We a1·e now coming ovet· Washing­ me to tell him n good talc. "I'll tell you blow them out on the field. After stuff­ ton. 'l'here is the capitol, the 'Mecca of of one cold night spent on the ground ing the papers in the racks in each seat America.' Here is the White House.'' in these hills. We had been coming and stowing away my suitcase in the Now, without exception, 13 passengers north, fighting cold winds, when we back compartment, I take my stand by glance at the First Lady, who has been suddenly ran into low clouds. It was the door to greet the passengers as they quietly reading her novel, and smile nearly zero at that altitude and the come aboard. Now I try to identify knowingly. moisture froze at once on the wings. them as much as possible from my list. I continue my little speech to a Rus­ We tried to climb to find warmer air Yes, there is the First Lady, flying sian girl and her English husband. but couldn't get up. Our pilot, a veter­ back to Washington. "Good Morning." "There is the Washington monument, an of winter night flying, banked as There is that newspaper and magazine the Lincoln Memorial. The Potomac steeply as possible, picked out a field sports writer I have admired from afar­ River is just below us. Is your seat he saw through a brenk in the clouds that must be the prominent "Brain belt fastened ~ W c are coming in to and we 'sat down.' We stayed in that Truster" now teaching in New York. Janel." plane for 5 hou1·s, but at the first streak "How do you do." Hmmm- who can ·w e stop only 10 minutes in Washing­ of light peeking through a crack in the this be~ Where have I seen his picture~ ton- just long enough to say good bye gloom, we struck out again.'' Oh yes, the movie czar going to Wash­ to 6 passengers and greet 5 more com­ I leave him to ponder on my story ington for a code meeting. "How are ing aboard. Then with two new pilots while I serve tea, sandwiches and small you this morning ~" Now these 11 ext we take off again for Richmond, Va. fi'Osted cakes. In the morning I usually three must be corporation presidents off The snow is still lying softly on the (Continued on page 15) THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 3 To Be An Apple Blossom By Claire Chadwick

ALL, cut glass bottles, pretty pink T and blue jars and fancy affairs hom the drug store may make nice dt·cssing table decorations. If decora­ tions are what you want, then spend your pennies for them. But if you have a case of acne and want to get over it; if you want to look like an apple blossom in May, fot·get the jat·s and bottles. 'l'hcy have no place at all in an acne treatment. Scrub! Scrub clean. That's what you do for this face that is acting up. Cleanliness is the most important factor in local treatment, not cm·eful powder­ ing of your nose 40 times a day, and Headquarters for Home Economics Openhouse cautious selection of the kind of 1·ouge with which to adom your poor cheeks. Soap~ Don't pay a dollat· for a beauti­ fully scented · bar that is basically tho Come and Take a Look same as the good old 10 ce11t brands. You may usc ordinary soap on your By BeUy Melcher face; buy a kind that you know is pm·e. This cleanliness is more than skin deep. 0\V A STATE at work and play. p. m. in MacKay Auditorium, May 11. Cleanliness within is important too. And I '!'hat's Veishea-May 10, 11 and 12, Calories, budgets, and meal planning if you are filling up between classes this year-and the best time in the will be given their j ust clues by the foods on candy bars and chocolate sodas, don't year for students to have guests and for and nutrition displays. The Home E co· expect the workings of your digestive guests to come to I owa State. nomics Education Department will have system to respond as they should. If you exhibits of garments made by high school are hung1·y eat fruits, not candy. Skip New and surprising attractions are in students at Ame.s and Story City. The the pie and cake. Specialize in green store for 1934 V eishea visitors. Doris· Household Equipment Depa1'tment is Yegetables, whole wheat cereals and bread dean Draper, of Ames, chainnan of tne 1·ather than the highly 1·efined white ones. Homemaker's Congress which formerly making plans to show off its most 1·ecent Keep at a diet of this sort. You won't has featured contests for high school equipment and give Veishea visitors the be sony even if results are n ot notice­ girls, announces that this year 's congress opportunity to see coeds actually ''go able the morning after. will take the form of discussion groups domestic. '' After you have decided to k eep rc· anw ng high school girls with college And Veishea wouldn't be Veishea with· ligiously clean, there are other factors girls as leaders. 'l'luee discussion groups out t he traditional cherry pies! 'l'hey in local treatment that speed up the 'l'hursclay morning of Veishea will con· will he on sale at t he encl of the Home nction and hasten the skin on the way sider t he fields of related arts, foods and Economics Open House line, May 11. to loveliness. Sunshine is a splendid nutrition, and child development. The One of the greatest changes in Ve· ointment. Spend hours out of doors, change from contests to discussion groups ishea this year is the substituting of a and in the winter, 1·esort to at'tifieial has been made because, as a rule, two or recital of music and dancing for what sunlight if necessary. Ultra-violet and three girls took all the prizes in every has been the May F ete. Grace Raffety carbon arc lights a1·e good substitutes contest to the exclusion of the rest of of Oskaloosa is in charge of the recital. a nd a doctor can p rescribe and ad· the group. Girls in the advanced dancing classes will minister them. '!'here's something about Josephine Kennedy of Nodaway, chair­ present interpretations of various musi· tltis sun treatment that turns ugly look· man of Home Economics Open House, cal numbers-from folk songs to 1·eligious ing red spots into well-behaved dried with he t· sub-chairmen, plans to open the selections- under the direction of Miss patches t hat will fl y away without the doors to the choicest of the home eco· Madge Hill, assistant in the Physical Ed· slightest help from itchi11g fingers. nomics prides ancl joys. ucation Department. Music for the con· And speaking of these same fingers­ Tho applied art laboratories will show cert will be furnished by the Girls' Glee it may he an amusing pastime to take girls at work making baskets, metal Club under the direction of Miss Rosa· a magnifying mirror, a strong light and dishes and other crafts. '!'here will even lind Cook. The program has heen special­ a half hour's time for a digging p arty. be a quaint litt le lady weaving at an old ly planned to be a pleasing entertain· '!'here seems to be a fascination of some fashioned loom. A style show featuring ment to the mother on the campus dur· sort in prying into the blackheads and I owa State coeds and their most swanky ing V eishe·a. pustules, but find a new diversion. If creations will show the newest in late they must be removed, there is a handy spring and early summer style. The 'l'he second head of the Home Econom· tool that drug stores sell called a come· showing will he continuous from 1 to 5 clon e extractor, and it will do the job ics Division, E mnw P. E wing, had a without bruising tender tissue around reputation before she 1·eached Ames. the blackhead. \Vhen using it, don't liness. Be sure that your hands a rc She had devised a systematic plan for take any 15 minutes during t he day washed, t hat you npply alcohol to the helping southern women learn to cook that you have to spare. Wait until affected portions of your physiognomy, after their 11egro help had been f reed. you can soften these dirt and fat de· and follow with a dash of cold \vater. * * posits with hot water and a good lather Then sit back m1d be surnrised at the Dean Catherine MacKay instituted the of soap. Then go to the digging process. wondel'ful manner in whi~h your f~ce beginning of research in the Department This is another time to remember clean· will pork up. of Home Economics in 1919: 4 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

after each score. If the ball jumps the little f ence, a frequent occurrence, it is This Sport: Called Polo • • • tossed back onto the field and the team which hit it last allows its opponents Don McGuiness Explains It to have a free strike at the ball. There are fouls in polo, just as t here For Women Spectators are in every other sport invented to date, but in the equestrian game a team can OLO is tho simplest game in the by numbers, for instance No. 1, No. be penalized for fouls to an opponent's P world- to the person who has never 2, etc. The No. 1 man is presumably horse as well as its rider. The most played. A man can be a good rider, the best player on the team and th e common form of fouling is striking an but still look like a dub on the polo fi eld. fourth man t he poorest, but even polo opposing horse or player with a mallet . For in addition to his equest•·ian skill he coaches are foxy 11ow and then, and Points m·e subtracted from the score as must have a good eye, a strong a t·m, more switch their riders around fo•· t he sake a penalty for such unsp ortsmanlike of­ than average amount of courage, and a of that strategy which you've heard so f enses. brain tha t is working every minute of much a bout in everything from sports The polo player, as he rides madly the game. to romance. about the big playing field, swinging his Most people's knowl edge of this aristo­ 'l'heoretically, the first two players are narrow bamboo mallet at the all-too­ cratic game has been gleaned from the offensive men and the last two are small white ball flying between the fl y­ flashes in the news ree} at their local def ensive, bnt t hey stick to theory a bout ing horses' legs, and taking severe beat­ opera house. They see horses racing as close as do the members of a basket­ ings about his helmeted head and body, over a carpet -like turf, men riding int o ball t eam when t he scoring sta rts. At has to have plenty of grit. Spills are tight spots, smacking tho diminutive ball, the beginning of the game the teams not uncommon and the horses and men and riding out again unscathed, and line up opposite each other at the are constm1tly tangling, colliding a nd ladies and gentlemen waving pink hand­ center of the fi eld, standing close to­ tripping. kerchiefs daintly from the sidelines. gether in a line which extends longi­ P olo is a hard game t o play, but a The game is played on a grass field, tudinally. 'l' he official throws the ba 11 great game to watch. which officially is supposed to be 250 in from the side of the field and all yards in length or about the equivalent eight men scramble for a crack at it of two a nd a half football fi elds. The with a subsequent mangling of men's Coeds Buy $1.00 Hose length of a p olo diamond in amateur bodies and horses' a11klos, f or, from OWA STA'l'E women do not pay more circles depends largely on the size of st art to finish, polo is a rough and t um ble I t han $1.00 a pair f or their hose. At the field on which it is laid out. 'l'he game, especially on the horses. It is a least this is indicated by t he 230 ques­ size of an indoor arena of course de­ thrilling game to watch when the mounts tionnaires answered for the 'l'extiles and pends upon the size of the building. are fast . Clothing Department, in connection with Lining the two sides of the field is a The ball is always thrown onto the field the nat ional project of home economics low board fence, about 12 inches in at the opening of each chukker and after clubs. height and designed to keep the balls a score is made. 'l'he t eams trade goals Of the 230 girls questioned, 128 buy from going out of bounds con- hose at prices from 90 cents to $1.00. tinually. The goal posts are set Only one girl pays more than $2.00. F ew­ 8 yards apart, and constitute er girls buy at special sales than other­ about the only oustanding f eat- wise. Two hundred eleven out of 230 ure of the field itself. E ach buy more t han one pair at a time, and post is a huge wicker affair 200 buy of the same kind. P rice and which looks like a lifebuoy. appearance run a close 1·ace as the de­ In principle polo resembles t ermining f actor in a purchase. Forty­ hockey, shinney, and the other three different brands of hose a re pur­ sports in which the ball is chased. Semi-chiffon is the most popular pushed between two upright weight with 136 buyers, while chiffon posts t o score. runs a close second with 123 and service Baseball has its innings, foot­ weight has only 54. ball its quarters, basketball its Anot her phase of tho hosiery p roblem halves and tennis its sets, but in was in the f orm of a wearing test . T he polo the playing time is divided avmage number of times that chiffon hose into chukkers, a peculiar name can be worn without coming in a hole is which has no b earing on the 10. The semi-chiffon hose wore, on t he game unless it would ref er to average, 16 times before breaking into a the fact that the players hole, and service weight led the race with "chuck" their horses and get 17 wearings. some fresh ones. E a ch chukker, The questionnair e showed that present in college matches, lasts 7 min­ labels are 110t satisfact ory. Women stu­ utes, and there are six such dents desire statements of the exact fibe r periods in a game. The play m·s or fibers in t he hose, indications of leg change horses after each chuk­ length, a guarantee for service, some in­ ker. dication as to whether the hose has been Outdoor polo, t he most popu­ test ed and appr oved by some a uthority lar form of the sport, is played for quality, the labelling of seconds as by two t eams of four men each. such, t he date of manufacture and Indoor polo, unless the field is whether or not they are proof against extremely large, is played by runs. only a trio of riders on each side. A four years "ladies course" was de­ The men are designated for veloped in the college in 1871 and t he their positions just like the first instruction in the school of domestic members of a t ennis t eam, For Women Spectators science was given in 1872. THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 5 It Won't Let You Down Or Your Purse Either This Wardrobe of Sally's

VEN if you are in the midst of glossy satin finish. A pile cashmere coat­ E planning a new summer suit, suave­ ing, adaptable to the sports coat mode iu ly cool and smart looking, or are lighter colors, shows us a fish scale weave making a stunning new plaid organdie in two tones. formal, or are the possessor of several In some of the mixture coatings for perfectly grand new seersucker frocks, fall, a black and white, or brown and don't laugh at us for popping up talking white thread makes a. vague all-over f rost­ about fall clothes, because really we're ed pattern when woven into an indefinite not Jso out of ordm· as we seem. Every check. Bold stripes and overplaids on college girl and would-be college girl is homespun backgrounds should delight the Blouses Have Their Place sure to ga.in by giving her fall wardrobe collegiate taste and so should the litt le trick of outlining stripes in dark yarn, a little time and attention from 110w on. please) ''mending'' and its twin ''make­ the stitches giving the tweed a thick look 'l'hose lazy SUJllli1er days when you over.'' It's certainly appalling what rips that is attractive. haven't mueh on your mind but a game and tears and bursting-out places do ap­ of t ennis, or a long afternoon spent in And here 's a. point not to be missed. pear in one's wardrobe after j ust so many If you want to be sure a. fabric is very your swimming suit, practicing , your days in college class rooms. W e think new and s trictly Fall, 1934, see if it has newest stroke or maybe just adding an­ we've run across some pretty clever ideas silky hair surfaces in light colored hairs. other layer to the best coat of tan in for fixing over things. Maybe you have The fabrics will be found to be uniformly town are the kind of days that can be some pet ones of your own, but at any soft in texture, too. turned into priceless opportunities to be rate, during the depression, we've gotten Camel's ha.ir tweeds are shown in high the owner of a really adequate and ever over being afraid to put economy meas­ style colors of which the most interest­ so smart looking array of fall clothes ures into practice. ing is a combination of dull rose-purple when I'egistration day comes round again. . If a material is worn throughout, mend with tan in a. r heck. The so-called coun­ Perhaps you like to do things up in a It, but don't spend time remaking it. If try tweeds are shown in rich colors-­ hurry at the last minute. Maybe you're t he material is good, but the gru·ment brown with turquoise and larkspur blue thinking that you should wait until quite merely out of fashion, rip, f reshen and coupled with lime green are typical. Cross­ late, so that you'll be sure to have the 1·ema.ke it. If you're fixing over a coat , bar check and chevrons in vertical chain very newest things that fashion has de­ think first of velveteen ru1d felt. They anangements are worked out in rugged creed. As a general rule, however, last are the least expensive of new materials tweeds. If you have a penchant for curly minute shopping and collecting of school and they work in beautifully a.s swanky surfacEs, try a two-tone tweed adopting clothes results in a rather harum-scarum new collar and cuffs, or for new f ront such aJl imaginative combination as bm­ assortment of things that don't match­ bands and ascot collars. Or you may make gundy knots on a bottle green back­ '' white elepha.nts' '- and a tendency t o a new collar and cuff set of imitation f m ground. overlook little things that the wise coed cloth. If you're the type who thrives on the knows will turn out to be the important One of the sorrows of many a. college Teally new and clever, we're chopping things. girl is the devastated condition into which this hint. There's a new lastex novelty. As for the matter of knowing what will coat linings fall. H ere 's a suggestion It is knotty in appearance and it intro­ bo in the very latest letter of the mode, for relieving the situa tion. Use t wo old duces elastic yarns into the warp. The already manufacturers are telling us what silk dresses- a plain and a. print-for re­ color range is large enough to suit al­ woolen fabrics are to be good and what lining an old coat. Use the plain for the most any taste. It is especially recom­ color·s promise to be popular. The wise bottom of the coat and for the top yoke mended for golf, but a clever college girl and successfully dressed college girl likes so that when the coat is thrown back can think of half a dozen bigger and bet­ to keep her wardrobe conservative. She only the plain silk will show. The printed t er uses. will have sensible but, of course, very silk can be used for the middle portion mart sport things, a f ew attractive dress­ of the coat. up afternoon and dance frocks, and a A S FO~ suitings,_th e mo s~ interes~ing pretty evening dress or two. Summer va­ offermgs are miXtuTes wit h fine silky overhairs on a rich n euti·al ground as F Y OU'RE all set to fix over a dress, cation is really the ideal time to get these I be sure to plan it so that it will already mentioned as important in coats. conservative, ''always good'' things out not merely be as good as new, but bet­ Lacy tweeds are carried out in openwork of the way. ter t han new. Usually the ones we rustic scotch weaves lookil1g crisp and Give a girl a. year or two on the cam­ want to make over a1·e the ones that were scratchy, but, deceptive things, they are pus and she knows what we mean by the not so successful in the first place ; t he as supple and downy as they can be. The ''classic'' coat-the kind cut on sensible ones we like a.I·e worn beyond our efforts knot technique and flecking are the last Jines, made for general utility wear, but to revive t hem. Many dresses can have words. Rare colors used for the fleckil1g having an air of collegiate distinct ion in t he tops cut off and be smartly made into are chartreuse, p imento, royal-blue, and its ve1·y simplicity. skirts to wear with crisp new blouses, canary-yellow. For a. really new, as well or a new b louse can be made f rom an old as adaptable fall suit, we suggest ledge­ H E fall coatings this year are un­ dress to wear wit h a separate skirt. Pay T usually lovely in t exture. Diagonal ? lue. It is a little deeper than aqua, and particular attention to t he neckline, the It makes a splendid contrast for either and vertical weaves are back in the lime­ sleeves and the waist line. They are most light. One diagonal frieze dressy coat­ black or brown color schemes. susceptible to fashion treatment and also ing is shown in a. rose mahogany tone. Perhaps the fir t thing that flashes most susceptible to wear. The texture is bulky and downy. The through your mind when fall school ridges in one wide-I·ibbed coating are in clothes ru·e mentioned is (capital letters, (Contimted on page 12} THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

without saying anything. ''Gum-chewing is my pet peeve,'' de­ Reciting Without Studying • • • clared Mrs. H enry Ness, instructor of applied art. One Habit: That: Bothers Teachers Although it's very rare, inattention when an important point is being stressed By Barbara Apple am1 a " lackadaisical attitude of not much interest" a nnoy Mrs. Ness. D ROM gum chewing to cheating­ working in the la bora.tory. To Miss Mary Gabrielson, of the 'l.'ex­ !.~ there is a wide variety of little habits Da.y-d1·eaming about las£ night's date tiles and Clothing Department, the most which students have that are a~moy­ ma.y be an amusing pastime, she con­ irritating practice of students is handing ing to their teachers. tinued, but it shouldn't be done while things in late. Innocently asking a. ques­ ''My pencil- sharpener makes a noise directions ru·e being given. ''I'm always tion which has just been answered in like a threshing machine and I can't talk glad to have my girls happy, but I don't discussion or demonstration is a remark­ against it!" exclaimed Miss Alice app1·ecia.te their singing a nd whistling in ablo sign of inattention. Waugh, instructor of applied art. the Ia b." If you're trying to make a. good im­ Asked a bout little things that students Fish eyes staring blankly a.t you-and pression on your instructor, don't call do which am10y her, Miss Waugh admit­ not a soul listening! Miss Melba. Acheson, her to the 'phone a.t midnight to find out ted she disliked most the people who a graduate assistant in technical journal­ the monow 's assignment, advises Dr. sharpen pencils when she is lecturing, ism, gave this as the most hopeless case Elizabeth Hoyt, professor of economics those who chew gum and those who loaf of all. She thinks it's grand when a and home management. when they are capable of doing good student asks good, leading questions or Dr. Hoyt is provoked when students try work. responds intelligently. It is rude to ex· to answer without havil1g 1·ead t he less011. Beware of those tantalizing slips that pect an instructor to 1·uin her eyes on 'l'he habit of confusing ''affect'' with sneak out from undeT a foods uniform carelpss hand writing, this teacher be­ ''effect'' in examil1ations bothers he1·. if your teacher is Miss Louise L 'Engle, lieves. When girls chew gum il1 her classes it assistant professor of foods and nutri­ does not irritate her but seems ridicu­ tion, and leave your jewelry off during I F YOU wru~t to be Miss Fern Gleiser 's lous. a foods laboratory. Miss L 'Engle is an­ friend, don't walk into her office and And freshmen-for shame!-Dr. Hoyt othe-r opponent of gum chewing. stand around waiting to talk to he1· when says that you and your classmates make ''I've decided to get a good supply of you can easily see that she is in confer­ a series of appointments and keep none chalk or else spend Sunday thinking up ence with someone else. Miss Gleiser, of them! quiz questions to keep my Monday mont­ who is head of institution management, ing 8 o'clock class a.wake , '' laughed Miss greatly dislikes to see girls nibble a.t food Marion Lepley of the Applied Art De­ in a foods lab. Ano,ther of her pet peeves Dr. Dennis Talks partment. is to have students close their books a.nd An indifferent or intolerant attitude, put on "''raps 5 minutes before the class T O REALIZE the needs and possibili­ or a negative individual who makes no is supposed to be dismissed. ties of the community instead of impression at all-never responds in class ''People who submit a.nd 11 ever have "r·ushing in" is impor-tant f or teach­ or offers any suggestions- is hard to ideas of their own ought to be shaken,'' e r·s. To remembe1· that our parents handle, Miss Lepley added. Outstanding declarEd Dr. Margaret Reid, assistant and the parents of om pupils have work at the first of the quarter and professor of economics. As for girls who been educated unde1· different conditions mediocre work at the end is very trying ask to be excused if they cannot be pres- from those we have known will allow to an instructor, as is also the student for a. deeper cooperation between the who does things because the teacher wants two groups. These were among the sug­ gestions that Dr. Lem Dennis, field work­ her to. Miss Lepley hates a ''yes'' man If You'd Not ... and an apple-polisher. er in child development with the Ameri­ can Home Economics Association, gave Another of her disappointments in stu­ Chew gum in class. to t he experienced and to the prospective dents is to fi11d a girl cheating. This Cheat teachers when she visited Iowa State happened during the final examination W ecvr high ll eeled shoes W'ith Co llege recently. last quarter, and although it ''made her spo1·ts il!·esses. "To do the con ect thing which under mad'' Miss Lepley believes that it is t he Sleep dt~ring class. certain circumstances would embmTass girl's own loss. Stm·e blankly at the instmcto1·. others," says Dr. Dennis, "distinguishes ''High heeled shoes just don't go with Tun~ assignments in late. one as a pseudo-refined individual in sports dresses,'' she continued. ''Good Call the teache1· nt mul11ight contrast to a. thoroughbred." heavens ! All this makes me sound like a fo!" the !/ext any's assignment. In discussing family relationships, Dr·. regular old crab. I'd better add that Dennis said, "'fhere a r·e no set rules students really don't gripe me at all!" You'd Win Teacher's Favor which ca n be successfully followed by :rll families; each must make adjustme11ts MISS MARY KIRKPATRICK of the to fit the rules to their ow n co nditions." Foods a.nd Nutrition Department ent a.t the next class, Dr. Reid says, It is her opinion that the family should has decided upon her pet peeve: the ''Students just refuse to grow up ! '' have more than affection to hold it to­ girl who is so punctilious about her ap­ One home economics senior persistent ly getheL". pearance on the street but who comes to went to sleep dming Dr. Reid's lectures, foods lab wearing a. soiled unifoi"m and and that's initating. Of course there are without a hairnet. others who always com e in late, and Mar·y B. Welch was the first instr·uctor in home economies nt Iowa State. ''It's 11 0 wonder that some girls as­ that's distmbing. sumo that pained expression after stand­ Some students measm e the amount they ing in-high heels for a couple of hours," get out of comses by their grades. 'fhis Lenore Sater of the Household Equip­ Miss Kirkpatrick said. '!."he sense of ap­ enthusiasm for grades rather t han an ment Department, has completed the propriateness is always appreciated­ enthusiasm fo1· learning exasperates Dr. first text book ever compiled foL" this especially low heels and no j ewelry while Reid, as also does the habit of talking field. It will be off the press in May. THE lOWA HOMEMAKER 7

Even teachers are unreliable but it doesn't increase their popularity with Teachers May Be Nervous • • • the students. ''If an instructor has pre­ dicted an exam for the next meeting of But: lt:'s a Pet: Peeve of Coeds the class, it is disgusting to have him put it off," said one girl. "It is equally By Bernice Borgman disgusting to have an assignment made and then 11ever mentioned again.'' " O NE of my instructo1·s has a habit Several of the girls interviewed said It aroused the girls' i1·e to have a of sneaking from one place in that they expected their instructors to teacher promise to have some material the room to another while he lec­ be broadminded and have a sense of ready at the next class but forget to do tures. I never know where he is and it humor. ''I've been in classes where so. bothers me.'' This is the comment of the insh·uctor refused to see the student's The Iowa State coeds want their in­ only one coed, a enior, taking chemical po-int of view or lost his temper when the structors to be fair and square with them. technology, but in general it represents student contradicted his statements,'' H ere are some questions they would like the chief annoyance--nervous mannerisms said a member of Omicron N u, home to have answered. Why should an in­ - which coeds at Iowa State observe in structor insist that students hand in all their instructors. work on the dot but he take his owu Instructors who laugh nervously, fidget sweet time about returning iU Why with their class cards, watch chain, eye If Teachers Didn't . . . does an instructor take up all the time glasses or what have you, pace back and explaining things students don't need to forth before the class, follow each com­ Pat1·ol the aisles like a police· know so that there is no time left for ment with a sniff, frequently clear their 1rwn on his beat. essentials f Why do instructors put throats with much gusto, bite their lips, Denwnst1·ate nervou.s nwnner­ catchy questions in a.n exam just to see constantly raise their eyeb1·ows or swa.y isms. what students can do with the questions, back and forth while lecturing-all these Call 1·oll. but flunk the student if he can't answer have nervous mannerism habits. Talk to the wicle open spaces them ~ Why do they keep classes over After nervous mannerisms, the popular mit the window 1·athe1· than to time until it is impossible to be on time complaint voiced by the girls interviewed the class. for the next class which is on the othet concerns the way the instructors present Fo1·get to be fair ancl sq~t.a1'e side of the ca mpus ~ subject matter in class. ''It takes some in every cletail. The girls are anxious for the instruc­ profs so long to tell anything,'' they P1·ove ~tnreliable. tors to feel that the students are being grumbled. '' Or they explain things so as fair with them. Several girls said they to make them seem 16 times as hard as Students Wouldn't Complain felt it was an insult to be constantly ser­ they really are.'' monized on cheating or to have the per­ Girls don't appreciate instructo1·s who son in charge during an exam patrol digress far from the subject nor those the aisles like a policeman on his beat. who try to entertain the class for an economics scholastic honorary. ''I have· They also added that such tactics only hour with funny stories and never have n 't much respect for one who does that.'' stimulated their desire to be dishonest. time to discuss the lesson. Constant un· A freshman said it irked her to have 'L'hree young ladies emphatically de­ necessary talking dming labs is especial· a teacher so exaggerate little thb1gs that clm·ed that they disliked sarcastic profs. ly annoying to one senior. even the maja~· ones appeared unim­ One, a special student in food chemistry, The instructors, however, will need a portant. said, '' Sm·casm makes me feel like a fine ense of discrimination to know Then there were complaints brought nickle waiting for change." where to find the happy medium because against the prof who restates the tu­ the girls also objected to the teacher dent 's answers as if they were incom­ HERE is probably nothing more flat who reads a lecture from a notebook plete or slightly inconect and the one T than a stale joke yet it is reported and expects the class to copy it verbatim. who continues haggling until somebody that some faculty members tell the same ''I hate to have an instructor talk over in tho class chances to answer in the ex­ jokes each quarter and some even get my head, " said a graduate student in act words the instructor had in mind off the same ones several times in one foods and nutrition. ''One I have in when he asked the question. quarter. mind assuines too much, so that nothing The teacher who acts as though his The coeds vary in their opinions of is comprehensible. I dislike being lost course were the only one tho students tardy instructors. Some are much an­ all during a course.'' were taking> was certainly unpopular noyed by them and others say they rather with the coeds. enjoy tho little talk fests which the in­ ECULIARITIES of speech don't go What is it that keeps an instructOl' structor's tardiness gives them. P over big with the coeds. Complaints from looking at the class when he A member of the home economics hon­ were registered conce1·ning squeaky, whin­ talks to them ~ The girls reported that orary, Phi Upsilon Omicron, says, ''I ing, harsh or shrill voices, '' ohs'' and somo profs look out the window, others am annoyed by having an instructor take '' and·ahs'' ancl other means of fishing gluo their eyes to the floor as though roll in class. It seems to me that it's around for the next word, and talking their lectures were written there, still only my hard luck if I'm not there. '' too loudly or too rapidly. ''One of my others scan the ceiling-anything but Several girls say they dislike indefinite instructors talks on and on as fast as look at the class. One girl said that statements regarding the subject matter. she can until her breathlessness almost one of her instructors even closed his Some objections ar e: having a shower worries me,'' laughed one home econom· eyes while he lectm ed. ''Before long of unanswered questions left hanging in ics senior. all of us have closed ours too,'' she the air, asking the same question of sev­ ''The way our math prof shouts at added. eral students without making any com· us is both funny and annoying,'' re· 'fhe college girls were rathe1· critical ment as though each answer were incor­ marked a junior in home econon1ics. of their instructors' personal appear­ rect, and finishjng a statement with such ''He talks in an under tone except when ances. They wanted them to be well­ an indefinite expression as ''and things.'' he suddenly booms out in a voice that dressed, well-groomed and have gooil Other annoying idiosyncrasies men­ makes all the class jump.'' posture. (Contin~tecl on page 15) 8 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

Mrs. Blanche M. Davis, M. S. '33, is county emergency home economist in Alumnae Echoes • • Atchison County, Mo. She has been con­ • ducting 11utrition classes for mothers. news bib from t:he front: lines Mrs. Davis reports good attendance at the meetings. She says the mothers ex­ Edited by Ruth May Green press apprecintion of the problems studied. HODA JOHNSTON, '29, is food pro­ service work in Omaha, Nebr. She teaches * * R duction manager of the Mills Restau­ classes in cooking and sewing at the Bernice Davis, '34, is teaching at rant, Ci ncinnati, Ohio. The Mills Restau­ Social Settlement House, Thirty-first and Larchwood. rants in Ohio do not serve liquor !Jf any Q Streets, in addition to doing case * kind, not even heer. Miss Johnston is em­ work with families. Edith Sunderlin, '24, M. A., S. U. I., with a major in child development, is ployed at the only restaurant in Cin­ * * * conducting a nu1·sery school at Cedar cinnati where beer cannot be bought. Esther Fa~tsch , '30, has been employed Rapids. * * for the past year at the Rochester Diet Ruth Harris, '30, is assistant produc­ Kitchen, Rochester, Minn. Other Iowa * * Nettie Latham, M. S. '31, is teaching tion manager at the Mills Restaurant. State graduates in Rochester arc Edith home economics in Lees-MeHae College, Roberts, '31, and Laura Burroughs, '32, * * * Banner E lk, N. C. Dorothy Ruggles, '29, is at the home ·)!. * ·:+ of her uncle, 445 N. Kilkia Drive, Los Edith Darling, '33, has accepted an Angeles, Calif., recovering from a serious appointment for dietetics training at automobile accident. Since 1930, Miss Lincoln General Hospital, Lincoln, Nebr., Ruggles has been dietitian at the San beginning Sept. 1. Pedro General Hospital, San Pedro Calif. * * * * * * Lillian Thomson, M. S. '32, is teaching Betty Jane Zimmerman, '31, has been clothing twice a week in the high school on the dietary staff at the Massachusetts and adult classes at Belle, Mo. General Hospital as administrative as­ sistant since January, 1933. She writes: * * * Bertha M. Fritzsche, '22, M. S. '29, "Boston, to me, is a never-ending source Nellie Goethe Edith Roberts teaches home eco nomics and is dean of of interesting people and places, and women at the State 'l'enchers Coll ege, things I love. If any Iowa State people who are in charge of the baking at Hol­ Hattiesburg, Miss. come to Boston, please ask them to call land's food shop. Frances Middleton, me at the hospitaL" '32, is in charge of the salad department * * * Anne H a berly, '23, is home economics at the Zumbro HoteL * * * teacher in the Union High School, Sweet Doris McKnight, '33, is home demon­ * Home, Ot·e. One of her advnnced classes stmtion agent at Medford, Okla. Nellie Goethe, '31, Freeport, IlL, has conducted a nursm·y school for 5 weeks been conducting a nutrition project in while studying child care. Equipping the Do·rothy Mittlestadt, '33, is county nu­ school lunches in her home county. She play room and child feeding were part trition advisor with the Federal Emer­ visited as many of the schools as possible of the project. Miss Haberly secured a gency Relief, Ceda r Co unty, Nebr., with in the co un ty, especially those schools master of science dcg1·ee from Oregon hcadqumters at Hartington, Nebr. with many undet·-weight children. 'l'hose State Coll ege in 1933. * * * schools that did not have a hot dish foT * * Ruth May Davis, '29, M. S. University lunch weTe given an opportunity to start Word has been received that Mattie of Minnesota '33, has t· ecently joined the such a system, she reports. In most of Ruth Melton, '28, was killed instantly in Home Service Department of Genet·al the sc hools, she gave demonstrations of an a uto accident, March 10. Since her Mills, Inc., with headquarters at Minne· good and poor lunches and introduced g1·aduation, Miss Melton had been dis­ npolis. Miss Davis held a teaching a sco1·e card for the lunch. Many of tl"ict home demonstmtion agent of 19 fellowship at the University of Minne­ the schools had contests to see which counties in northeastern Arkansas with sota during 1931-32 and 19·32-33 while side would have the more nearly perfect headquarters at Little Hock, Ark. In studying for the Master of Science degree. score for lunches. In one school, 26 of 1931, two of the counties in her district the 35 children enrolled were from fam­ -Greene and Crittenden- won first and * * * ilies on t·e!ief. In that community a salt Bessie C. Swartz, M. S. '28, is head of second places in Better Homes work in pork demonstration combined with the home economics at St. Mary's College, the United States. school lunch demonstration was in order, Leavenworth, Kan. * * she says. "VIe had the mothers come * •* * Helen R. Hunt, '31, is in charge of the for that because around here it is no special diet kitchen at the Wilson Me­ Opal Wind Coad, '24, is nutrition ad­ hidden fact that much of the salt pork visor for the State Emergency Relief morial Hospital, Johnson City, N. Y. is thrown away simply because people * * Administration at Omaha, Nebr. She don't know how to use it." writes that there are 6,000 families on Veronica Morrissey, '23, has charge of tl;e relief rolls. H er work is to see that * * * all the food service of the Pittsburgher Neita Rays, '32, was married to John they get the proper food in the grocery Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Morrissey L. Hinehart, '32, on March 10. '!'hey will orders furnished by the relief administra­ says, "We have 3 t·estaurants, a coffee make their home at Dallas Center. tion. shop with American cookery, a bar grill * * * 1·oom and a Union G1·ill. '!'his Union * Lucille McGruder, M. S. '28, has a Grill has a Normandy interior and the Josephine Mishler, '33, is employed in leave of absence from her position at waitresses wear Normandy peasant cos­ the food service department of the J effer­ 'l'exas State College for women at Den­ t umes." son Hotel, Peoria, Ill. ton, and is attending the Child Develop­ Seven of the 200 women employed in * * ment Institute at Columbia University the food department of the hotel arc Gertrude Wailsink, '29, is in social this semester. homo economics trained. THE lOW A HOMEMAKER 9

when they mistake rudeness for courtesy they may be on the road to popularity all right, but they're facing THE the wrong direction ~

IOWA HOMEMAKER li: Means Somei:hing A Magazine for Homemalce~·s from a Honw1nalcers' Scllool T O BE an alumna of Iowa State-what does it mean 5 or 10 years after graduation ~ XOL. XIV MAY, 1934 NO.2 'l'o most people it means a great deal more than they expected it to mean when they entered college Editorial Staff as freshmen. Perhaps they went to Iowa State be­ Gertrude Hendriks, Editor cause it happened to be close to the home town. At the Ruth Co ok, Associate Editor time they laughed at the ''cow college'' they were at­ Barba m Apple Edith Pezler Hazel Moore tending. Maybe they had never been out of Iowa to nlia B::~ tl e t.t Elizabeth Fost

say, she plans to be a food chemist. She Perhaps You've Met Them ... has been given credit on ·the Lowe Die· tetic File for assistance in checking But: Do You KNOW Them? figures. You can t ell by watching Betty's lithe, swinging stride across the campus Reader ... viable reputation of the college has been maintnined and strengthened. thnt 011 e of her mnin interests is sports. Genevieve Fisher She says of home economics : ''Of She is the newly elected president of co urse I feel that hom e economics has one W. A. A. and is intensely interested in all types of athletics. HEN Dean Genevieve Fisher gets of the biggest contributions to make in W interested in reading, she has to the educational world toward l'ight liv· - Laura Ch1'istensen be careful or she neglects so me ing. I believe we have already made a necessary piece of work, for reading is definite contribution toward making peo· Dean l <"'isher 's hobby. Biography is her ple conscious of improved diets, better Flyer ... particular favorite, but she reads with a conditions for children, and mo-re conven· Irene Adamson wide variation and without partiality as i 1t and attmctive homes. We have not to subject or author. yet, however, measured up to our oppor­ PINS, lazy 8 's, side slips, recovery Of course Dean Fisher's most absorb· tunities for educating the consumer. S from stall s- in fact, most flying tac· ing activity is home economics, but she tics-hold no fear for Irene Adam· finds time to ''take in'' some of her son, se nior in hom e economics. Last sum· many other interests. mer, at Kansas City, she received the As far as music is con cerned she claims honor of being the first woman of the to be only average, and would never set midwe t to pass the 1933 1·evised fl ying herself up as a music critic. Eva le Gal· tests for private pilots. lienne and Katherine Cornell rank as her This modest, gray-eyed, brown-haired two best-liked actresses, and she tries girl has always been interested in fl ying, never to miss their performances. Will but one day in January, 1931, an item in Hogers is her favorite comedian, both iu the Iowa State Student about the forma the movies and out. She reads daily his tion of a flying club on the campus ''line' ' in the newspapers. She also says a roused her attention. She attended the that Ge01·ge Arliss' plays can always be meeting, became a member of the Ames 1·elied upon to be in good taste. .!<~ ly ing Club, and in a short time learned As fa1· as sports go, D ean Fisher is not to fly. a ''fan,'' but she likes to play golf. She To receive her private pilot's license, says that ''par'' means nothing to her, it was necessary to pass a stiff physical for she is a ''bum player.'' Swimming examination, a w1·itten examination over isn't as yet an accomplishment with he1· , air commerce rul s and regulations, the but this summer she has promised herself flight test which included three spot land· to swim regularly and develop i11to a real ings, val'ied degree tums and landings, mermaid. Dean Genevieve Fisher spiralo and other feats in flying. On Miss Fisher's birthplace is Springfield, April 1, 1931, she received her physical Ill., and her first degree, in Liberal Arts, Since statisticians tell us that between 85 examination permit. Under the instruc· was received from the University of Chi· a nd 90 percent of the family income is tion of Arthur Scheerer, then a student cago. Most of her hom e economics work spent by the housewife, we have a big at Iowa State, she learned to fl y, and on was taken at Columbia University in New responsibility in teaching her how t o get July 31, 1931, she received her license. York City. her money's worth. ]t is up to the hom e According to Irene, there is no end of Dean }~isher fir t came to Iowa State (Contimtea on page 12) thrills one gets from flying. Leaming in 1914 with the Home Economics Edu· new things such as flying with the rudder cation Department. H er next position was bar without the aid of the stick, are only in Washington, D. C., in 1919, where part of the picture. she was a fi eld worker in hom e economics Chief Cook ... Through her flying, Irene has met and for the Federal Board of Vocational Betty Lee Sparling become acquainted with Amelia Earhart. Education. 'rhree years of this and she Probably the most exciting moment in went to the Carnegie Institute of 'r ech· OST of us think it would be a very her fl ying career came last summer while nology, Pittsburgh, Pa., again in the M difficult task to be cook for n she was pmcticing at Kansas City. Her Home Economics Education Department. foods teacher-especially as a uthor· motor stalled on the field; she got out to Since 1927 she has been Dean of H ome itative a one ns Belle Lowe, associate pro· start it. 'rhe throttle was advanced and Economics at Iowa State College. fcssor of foods nnd nutrition and com· tho pl:, ne started off across the field. piler of the Lowe Dietetic Files. That In the short vacations she has had, she Irene ducked under the wing and pur· is the position that Betty Lee Sparling, has studied and traveled. She has taken sued it, caught up, cut the gas supply and Miss Lowe's niece, is holding down; two European trips for pleasure only and assum ed control. Thus, he t· clear mind and what's more she likes it! For, now she is especially anxious to go to and ability to act averted disasteL says Betty, "It rea ll y is lots of f un, and Denmark to study the plan of adult edu· In college h·ene is taking one course I'm getting a g reat deal of valuable ex· in engineering- aerodynami cs-which will cation of women which concerns the im· perience. My first omelet was a fl op, f urther her fl yi ng ability. She is greatly provement of homes and home life. She IJu t l tried it again, and 11 0w they're wants to visit the home economics insti· not so bad. At fir-st, I sort of dreaded interested in applied art and divides her tutions a broad. guests, but now I don't mind." time between it and the art of fl ying. Dean Fisher has aided the I own Betty has had two yea rs of training 'rhis summer she plans to try for a lim· State College Division of Home Eco· in chemica l kchnology, :mel is 11 0w get· ited comm ercial license either at Omaha- ­ nomics to grow enonnously in the last ting her home eco nomics training, major· her home-or Kansas City. few years. Under her guidance the en· ing in foods nnd nutrition. Needless to -Alb erta Ho ppe THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 11 To Organize Or Not To Organize Miss Dahlen Offers Grace Raffet:y Advice

O ORGANIZE or not to organize a :! meeting during the clay would be far member of the American Home Econom­ T Home Economics Club is the first better. There is a possibility of taking ics Club. For $3.00 a year a high school thing for home economics students regular class time once a week for club club may have the privileges such mem­ and teachers to decide when facing the purposes. The latter plan, however, might bership offers. News letters with hints 11eeds of extra -curricular activities in a eliminate those girls who are not free at from other schools, bulletins full of or­ high school, according to Miss Alice that time. Often a school provides dm ­ ganizational and program material are Dahlen, state advisor for Home Eco­ ing the week for an activity period which sent out to affiliated clubs. Such mem­ nomics Clubs. can profitably be used for club work. bership brings a close association of all The club should not be organized The clues of the clubs are 25-50 cents a clubs and greater cooperation in home­ merely for something more to do, but semester or 10 cents a month. In some making. rather to meet those needs of the girls schools there a1·e no clues, but members which aTe not met by other activities. 'rhe are assessed in different ways to secure club may be a supplement for regular money to carry

a dashing air with an organdie ruffle or two, or some clever turns of bias tape. Wash Day No Longer Drudgery Blouses aren't hard to make, either, and t he more dainty, fresh ones you have By Clarine Durr the happier you'll be some f rosty fall morning wh en you wake up late and sim­ ''The maid was in the garden isfactory if a certain routine is followed ply must look fresh and sweet in n o time Hanging up the clothes, in washing. at all. Along came a black bird Miss Lenore Sater and Mrs. Louise J. And picked off her !lOSe. '' Peet of the Household Equipment De­ I F YOU'VE come under the spell of the partment make these suggestions in the craze for knitting you may think it UST pretend you had crawled out of new text book they a1·e writing : fun to while away the hours making a J bed at five of a morning, had gone 1. Sort clothing according to fabric, flattering scarf aJJd glove set in alternat­ clown to a stream t o bring back color, and the amount of soil. ing striped beige and brown, or a dainty splashing pailfuls of water, and had 2. Hemove stains. pastel sweater with a new clraw string rubbed t he royal linens until your 3. Soak clothi11g in cold wa ter to loosen neck, or a pert little crocheted hat with knuckles were battered and your back and dissolve soil. even a quill made of yarn. If you're was shot with pain. That's wh at the 4. Fill t he tub with water (150°- really ambitious, there are some stunning poor wash woman of the nursery rhyme 1600F.)r to the water line. knitted suits and t wo-piece d1·esses you endured before she was r eady to begin 5. Aclcl soap shavings or chips and may attempt, but judging from some re­ ''hanging up the clothes. '' form good suds. ports, we can't promise that suits and Since t he first piece of soiled clothing 6. Aclcl clothing, allowing enough dresses won't run over into the second was cleaned with water , women have en- space for water action. summer. 7. Vary washing period with type of You may not believe it possible, but machine as well as with kinds of articles wo can tell you what the fall colors in being wa shed. shoes are to be. When you come right 8. Hinse in hot water (a machine clown to it Miss Coed is pretty dependent rinses a bout twice as effi ciently as a hand on that item of wearing appru·el. A rinse.) chestnut brown designed to hannonize 9. Follow with a cold rinse; acid blu­ with t he new browns of fall costumes ::mel ing if clesiJ·ecl. also to key in with greens is called 10. When entirely finished, drain tub ma.rrona. French mahogany is a 1·ich and dry well. deep shade described as suitable for tail­ Success to you who will have airplanes ored as well as formal types of shoes. It instead of black birds swooping over complements 1·eddish tones of brown in your heads on wash clays! fall costumes, and will also go with wine reels. Green, after an absence of several seasons, again takes its place in fall shoe colors. The shade, tailleur green, has a Sally the Style Scout slight ly bluish cast in harmony with tones of green fm· fall costumes. (Continued [1·om page 5) With all these major dress matters out If you are interested in freshening up of the way dming the summer, you should a much loved dress that has acquired a bo in a very calm a.nd collected state of rather clingy look, ti·y 1·estitching the wardrobe when September arrives. Heally It's Wash Day seams. Opening the hem and t urning it t here won't be much more shopping left on a new line gives a dress a clecideclly to do except buying the most becoming clured back breaking methods of laun­ new look. hat you've yet had, picking out a nice dry. It took a situation such as the gold The tunic dress design allows an ef­ practical handbag and a pair of gloves, 1·ush of '49 where there were no women f ective combination of a silk dress and or perhaps investing in a new box of to clo t he washing to inspire a man to a wool or vel vet ch·ess. For an old plaid powder. Thus fortifiecl, you'll be r eady invent a crude ''washing machine.' ' dress, cut a new yoke, including the tops to turn your mind to mastering science, Back in the nineties, washing was still of the sleeves, the cuffs and four military secure in the possession of the right an unpleasant event although hand forced looking patch pockets of plain material. clothes- the kind that won't let you down machines were in common usage. Es­ If the back of the dress is worn, cut the at the crucial moment. pecially on farms, where as many as yoke and panel in onepiece and extend it 14 tubs f ull of clothing were to be cloW11 to t he bottom of the ski1-t. washed, clicl the housewife shudder on J ust keep in the back of your mind Reader Monday morning. 'l' he task of turning that va riation' within itself is a signifi­ ( Cont in~t ed [1·om page 10) the dolly of the machine had to be kept cant fashion idea for t he fall outfit. economist to help he!". up continually. It was at this time t hat Sometimes you may express the variatio11 '' Uncloubteclly home economics offers a great number of men became familiar only in an interchangeable bow or jabot; the largest field for professional careers with the work of washing. in other instances a dim1 er dress may be to women, since its workers have not the Those of you planning someday to be converted into an afternoon frock, or a competition that t hey would have in other doing your own washing will have a com­ single street f rock may be dressed up fields in which men excel. Opportunities pamtively simple task. Today there arc for aftemoon wear. Just a dash of taste are increasing in the field for teachers, a bewildering number of types of wash­ a nd discrimination- t hat's all you need. extension workers, home service dii-ectors, ing machines f rom which the homemaker Many college girls find cotton print journalists, welfare workers, and many may choose the one best suited to her pajamas practical and pretty. They're others. In the present economic crisis needs. Once the washing machine is in very easy to make and it wouldn't over­ home economists are realizing their re­ the laundry I"oom, the housewife finds tax your summer supply of energy to sourcefulness and practical ability. ' ' that even the best machine is more sat- stitch up two or three pairs, giving them - Hazel Moore THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 13

Lillian Feucht Good Taste Demands a Quali­ MOTHER'S DAY ty Hat. We Have Them. Shops Wit:h MAY 13TH New l\Iode Millinery Shoppe, Send Her a Box of The Homemaker Where Hats Are Different Whitman's Wrapped for Mailing Free O'rHER'S DAY . . . a fine thought, LINCOLN WAY PHARMACY M but let's make it every day. DUDGEON Woltz Studio has an ideal gift-a F orty Years of Service to the The Rexall Store photograph-for mother. 'rhe H art Stu· Students and Faculty of I. S. C. dio has special rates to graduates for West Ames Phone 1030 Everything in Jewelry Mother's Day. And mother is sure to enjoy a box of Whitman's from the Rex a 11 Store. The Ideal Gift ASTER HAGEN * * * A PHOTOGRAPH NADINE ALDRICH F or A suggestion from the Ca mpus Drug CHAS. A. FIELD MOTHER' S DAY - protect yo ur winter clothing f rom at your service moths with moth proof bttgs and moth F IELD'S BEAUTY SHOP preventatives. Phone 1069 Notice-spor ; enthusiasts of t ennis and golf- the motto of the College Hardware is "Good equipment mettns a good game." 'rhe Student Supply Store-with a gentle Good Equipment hint for making the old like new-sug­ gests restl'inging rackets. means a For those small but necessary items Good Game visit t:te Ca mpus 5c to $1.00 Store. 'rhe Palmer Plumbing Company rec­ Tennis Golf omm ends Leonard Electric Refrigerato 1· s. OUR HOME EQUIPMENT Rackets Clubs DEPARTMENT ·• * $3.75- $10.00 $3 5.00- $75.00 RECOMMENDS LEONARD ELECTRIC A little hint to people wh o like things College Hardware different - the New M.ode Millinery REFRIGERATORS Shoppe ha s a variety of hats. 2536 Lincoln Way ABC and G. E . Oscar at Trueblood's says they have a WAS HERS and IRONERS wide display of white footwear. Brann­ UNIVERSAL and G. E . berg and Alm suggests, "White is right" VACUUM CLEANERS - for campus and sports. 1st YEAR L .C. Tallman has a n interesting di s­ PALMER PLUMBING CO. You can pay for your Spee d 108 HAYWARD AVE . play of jewelry. Forty years of service to I. S. C. students and faculty Queen out of the money it P H ONE 1091 Dudgeon's J ewelry. saves you in reduced laundry bills and protected garments. All prices less 20 o/o- using co upons ... the Memorial Union Beauty Shop. Field's Beauty Shop is at your service. 2nd YEAR Why not let the Ames Pa11 atorium . . . . and many years there­ CARTER PRESS make your formal look new and fresh after, the saving is CLEAR for sp rin g~ P ROFIT. 127 WELCH * * * .... ., Carter P ress takes unusual interest in lno1 doing unusual wo1·k unusually well. The Speed Queen Washer is reco m­ me11ded by the Can Hardware Company Other models priced WE TAKE UNUSUAL INTEREST for its economical saving. as low as $44.50 and IN DOING UNUSUAL WORK The Brown Shoppe excells in washable as high as $84.50. silks and cotton laces. If it's new, Han­ UNUSUALLY WELL. num's will ha ve it in women's r eady-to­ wea r ga rmcnts. • .... ., * -X- lno1 CARR For the girl herself, the College Shop, Younkers, offers suggestions. At the HARDWARE CoMMERCIAL PRINTING Fair there's a favorite "doggy" shade­ Spaniel-by Phoenix. And Stephenson's co. Store has a line on all the new fabrics. 14 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

SUMMER FROCKS Washable Silks, $4.95 to $12.95 Help for Laboring Teachers ... Doeskin, washable, $4.95 to $7.95 (Does not wrinkle) By Cora B. Miller Cotton Laces, white and pastel, $12.00 to $42.00. H ead H ome Economics E ducation The BROWN Shop OW well do I remember how much Just recently such a book appeared in H it meant to me when I was a the field of art education entitled ''Art young teacher to find a book on Training Tluough Home Problems.'' K o methods of teaching some subject over ono realizes better than teachers of home Brannberg & Aim which I was laboring. economics how much art there is to be taught to the homemaker. 'l'his book, FAMOUS FOOTWEAR which was written by two of our ow11 For faculty members-Miss Mabel Russell of the applied art staff and Mrs. Elsie Wil­ Campus - Sports son Gwynne, recently of the home eco­ nomics education staff-gives teache1·s WHITE IS RIGHT much help in methods of handling this HOM.E OF interesting subject which every home economics teacher realizes she must in­ RED CROSS SHOES clude in her course. 'l'he book contains valuable chapters DOWNTOWN, AMES on clothing selection and its various as­ pects of personal clothing, fitness and suitability, harmonious colors, and also a chapter on home furnishing. FOR SPRING NE state supervisor of home econom­ O ics has said, "'It will be a great help to teachers in the field. We have H ave Your Formal needed this type of material a long Miss Mabel Russell time.'' Another supervisor writes: ''I Looking New and F resh like especially the use of illustrations of good things, the chapter on illustrative MOTHER'S DAY material and, best of all, the common sense presentation of subject matter, free from confusing terminology.'' Another Ames Pantorium Don't Forget Mother has said: ''The book is beautifully done II PHONE 23 1 and we are finding it valuable in our GRADUATION state. It fills a very definite need.'' A yo ung teacher, teaching related art for the Yes, we give special rates first time to a high school class in home to graduates economics, says: ''What should I do with­ HANNUM'S out it ~ " Any teacher of Home Economics who 2514 LINCOLN WAY The Hart Studio desires specific help in the teaching of the AMES, IOWA Phone 336 art phases of her subject will be delighted with a copy o.f ''Art T1·aining Through Home Pt·oblems, '' which is so definite in its suggestions and which is so beauti­ Protect Y o u r fully illustrated. Winter Clothing From That Women's Terrible Moth Ready-to-W ear with Moth Proof Bags and Moth Preventatives CAMPUS If it's new DRUG CO. it's here Lincoln Way and Welch Mrs. Elsie Wilson Gwynne THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 15 Take Off at: Eight: L. C. TALLMAN (Contimwcl [1·om page .'8) sen·e coffee and rolls ot· bouillon and jewelry Store crackers. 236 Main Street Store Est. 1890 " T HEHE is Savannah. See over here the straight, prim streets, the square red brick houses with white pill­ ared porches ~ " 1<-,or Toilet Articles, Notions, I see a very black cloud l'Olling across Candies and Needy Items the western sky blowing out to sea. It is directly in our path by the time we visit reach Daytona Beach nnd suddenly the stonn hits the ship. At the first drop Campus Sc to $1.00 Store of about 50 feet there are several star· tied passengers. A thunderstorm in the air can be a thrilling experience; these drops caused by currents of air of differ­ ent temperatures may vary from 5 to 100 0 feet. 'L'he n:lin drives against the win­ s dows ns a f ew strea ks of lightning race past and thunder hurls itself at us. \Ve c a re jolted a bit more as the storm moves A on out to sea, leaving a swept sky, and taking daylight away with it. R 'L'he surf is only n line of white and Palm Beach n dotted line of glowing lights. Then a beacon flashes at ln. Lauderdale to be answered almost im· s mediately by the green and white signal A of the Minmi airport. It is 8 :40 p. m.­ y just 12 hours since we left New York. As we walk into the hangar, I find s mere questions to be nnswered and so I must tell something more of this job. SEE US FOR YOUR l<'orced landings nre not common; inter­ WHITE FOOTWEAR esting people and delightful conversa­ TRUEBLOOD'S tionalists arc common. New cities to WEST AMES prowl about in cn n be found on evet·y trip; people livi ng in traditions new and stmnge; dialects with foreign tangs or soft slurred accents are hea rd in queer streets. There is always the exhilara­ Tennis Rackets tion of flying over soft hills or a long the edges of blue and white beaches. Summer and winter may be interchanged Tennis Balls in a day- just this day we leave zero weather behind us and find a warm soft Golf Clubs and Irons evening in Miami. -by PHOENIX Golf Balls Coed's Pet: Peeve Y ou'H adore this smart (Contvnuecl [1·om p(!ge 7) sprin~?: hosiery color cre­ tioned are wild gestures-one history ated to wear with new prof has the distinction of having ruined some mustrative material in the class­ corals, rust tone5 and Have us restring your room by his irrepressible desire to ges· cinnamon browns, You'll ticulate--eating in lab-yes, some in· also like the comfort of structors have been known to do that­ racket now and sleeping during an exam- probably Phoenix Custom-Fit Top t his prof wa.s trying to show the class and the "long-mileage" that he didn't doubt their integrity, but tout. nevertheless the class doesn't like his method. And now lest some conscientious in­ structor, after readil1g of his faults, STUDENT should deem himself entirely unworthy of filling hi.s position, the coeds wish to SUPPLY STORE assure him that tlwir complaints are made with no ill feeling but with only NEXT TO AMES THEATRE the best intentions of giving some help­ ful suggestions for improvement. 16 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER

College Years Bring (Continued [1·om page 1} School of Retailing and at Bryn Mawr. FABRICS "It seems," say Ruth, "that at this time it is particularly useful for people to have taken art work in which they learn to use their hands and to· make things for themselves. Iowa State offers such training. In the crafts laboratory COTTONS the girls do leather tooling on book bind­ ings and pocket books, and cut and ham­ SILKS mer out rings and bracelets, weave seats for foot stools and carve boxes of various LINENS sizes. In another class the girls learn to WOOLENS do block printing and some lovely block print luncheon cloths and matching nap­ ASCETATES kins have been made. F't·ee-hand draw­ ing is also taught. Needless to repeat, I think that the art training at Iowa State is very valuable.'' Sally Jones, major in dietetics and edu­ cation, has found that the experience The Finest Comes From gained from living in one of the cooper­ ative dormitories has a great deal of practical value for anyone interested in foods work or group living. ''During my first 2 years at Iowa STEPHENSON'S State, I did Y. W . C. A. work,'' Sally says, ''and I have found it has a clo.so Opposite Campus relationship to education.'' Although she has received her dietetics appointment for next year, Sally is undecided wh ether she will enter the dietetics or education field.

ATHRYN SOTH, 1· etiring editor of K the Iowa Homemaker, feels that the changed point of view about everything Save Money~ Time and Patience and the development of one's own phil­ osophy of life are the most important re­ sults of college life. ''You get a new idea of the ideal home, how to dress col·­ rectly, and how to live better in every way,'' Kathryn says. Use Your Pl.l!l

Iowa State is the only college that gives a major in the department of household equipment. •

College Courses • Tailored to Fit

The Home Econom·ics D·ivision, under Deau Genevieve Fishe1·, offers these majors: ORE than 700 girls are studying M home economics at Iowa State APPLIED AR'l' Head, Miss Joanne Hansen this spring- and they are studying CHILD DEVELOPMEN'l' very nearly 700 courses. For Iowa Head, Mrs. Lulu Lancaster State's Home Economics Division of ~ DIETETICS Head, Dr. P . Mabel Nelson fers a variety of subjects, with "rna~ FOODS AND NU'l'RI TION Head, Dr. P. Mabel Nelson jors" in 14 different departments or HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION combinations of them, and with sup~ H ead, Miss Cora B. Miller porting work in scores of other depart ~ HOME MANAGEMENT Head, Miss H elen Bishop ments, that makes it possible to tailor HOME MANAGEMEN'l' AND E CO- each girl's work to fit her own individ ~ NOMICS Head, Miss H elen Bishop ual needs. HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT Head, Dr. Louise Peet INS'l'ITU'l'ION MANAGEMENT Head, Miss Fern Gleiser One of these courses- or a combina ~

NU'l'RITION Head, Dr. P. Mabel Nelson tion of them- is made for you. You'll TEXTILES AND CLOTHING be offered plenty of electives to take Head, Miss Rosalie Rathbone work in English, languages, mathemat ~ 'l'EXTILES AND CHEMISTRY H ead, Miss Rosalie Rathbone ics, the sciences- anything y ou wish. HOME ECONOMICS AND EXTEN­ You may get more information by SION Head, Miss Cora B. Miller writing to Dean Fisher or to Registrar HOME ECONOMICS AND JOURNAI.~ ­ ]. R o Sage. ISM Head, Blair Converse

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When your graduation day dawns we hope you '11 have everything in your favor ... cloudless day, lots of honors, a grand time ... whatever else you want. There's much satisfaction in knowing that you are dressed to the mode for this important occasion, and that's where we really shine!

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YOUNKERS College Shop Where Smart Young Iowans Meet for Fashions The College Shop is the rendez-vous for the younger set . .. here you '11 find the last word in fashions for every occasion that pops up. Sizes 11 to 18, for juniors, misses and small women. Select your clothes for graduation festivities in the College Shop. -Third Floor; West YOU'NKE RS