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Volume 18 Article 1 Number 1 The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.1 1938 The oI wa Homemaker vol.18, no.1 Elizabeth Myers Iowa State College Daisy Mary Kimberley Iowa State College Jean Sigmond Iowa State College Charlotte Heffner Iowa State College Harriet Graves Iowa State College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Myers, Elizabeth; Kimberley, Daisy Mary; Sigmond, Jean; Heffner, Charlotte; Graves, Harriet; Beyer, Harriet; Campbell, Myrtle Marie; Pettinger, Marjorie; Sheridan, Margaret; Deems, Ruth; Danielson, Faithe; Ellis, Mary; Dahlberg, Ruth; Stock, Roberta; and Halder Allen, Anne (1938) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.18, no.1," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 18 : No. 1 , Article 1. 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The oI wa Homemaker vol.18, no.1 Authors Elizabeth Myers, Daisy Mary Kimberley, Jean Sigmond, Charlotte Heffner, Harriet Graves, Harriet Beyer, Myrtle Marie Campbell, Marjorie Pettinger, Margaret Sheridan, Ruth Deems, Faithe Danielson, Mary Ellis, Ruth Dahlberg, Roberta Stock, and Anne Halder Allen This article is available in The oI wa Homemaker: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol18/iss1/1 THE IOW A THE IOWA HOMEMAKER MARCH Vol. XVIII No.1 CONTENTS Calling for Versatility . 2 by Elizabeth Myers Researching with Animals of Leisure 3 by Daisy Mary Kimberley With the Ratio Nine to One 4 by Jean Sigmond Fifty for Dinner Tonight? 5 by Charlotte Heffner Peggy Schenk, Editor-in-Chief "Color on Coed Avenue" 6, 7 Gay Starrak, Managing Editor by Harriet Graves Ruth Kunerth, Issue Editor Food for Thought 8 by Harriet Beyer Eunice Anderson Ruth Dahlberg Streamlined Study 9 Margery Bell Dorothy Evans by Myrtle Marie Campbell Jo Betty Helen Greene Nadine Bickford Marjorie Pettinger Evelyn Burchard Katherine Taube An Eggy Tale 9 Winnifred Cannon Marian Weinel Gaynold Carroll Harriet Werner What's New in Home Economics 10, 11 edited by Marjorie Pettinger Take Inventory for Self Selling 12 Elizabeth Ann Dickinson by Margaret Sheriden Business Manager Circled with Design 13 Mary Bush Carolyn Hyde by Ruth Deems Marisue Cash Mary Elizabeth Kadera Eleanor Downer Helen Jane Klinger Henrietta Dunlop Gertrude Mann Alums in the News 14 Helen Greer Nellie McCannon • '~ • •• •, by k'~Jith~ Danielson Barbara Head Rachel Roewe "",., ,..,.... ... 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Dean Genevieve Fisher Miss Katherine Goeppinger Elizabeth Storm Ferguson Miss Paulena Nickell Peggy Schenk Cut on page 4 by courtesy of General Electric Company; top page Gay Starrak 5, page 8, California Fruit Growers Exchange; page 10 and 11, Elizabeth Ann Dickinson Westinghouse. Alvina Iverson Published monthly during the school year by the home economics students of Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Price $1.00 per year. Advertising rates on application. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Ames, Iowa, under the act of March 3, 1879. 231936 An enthusiastic alum supplies her answer to the problem, 11After College, What?" Calling for Versatility IFE at Ivorydale amidst a pleasant be similarly tested, such as: knitted I find three pairs of beautiful Angora L scene of factory activity is ener garments, underwear, dresses, men's mittens, a skein of yarn, and a knitted getic, interesting and extremely socks, babies' rubber panties, bandanas, rayon boucle dress to be washed, color satisfactory. An experimental kitchen bathing suits and almost anything else fastness noted, and the garments blocked and an experimental household laundry you can imagine. back to their original shape. All are comprise the laboratories of the Home As a cooperative project with the very satisfactory, although the dress Economics Department of the Proctor Laundry Research Department, a small has a tendency to stretch, which will and Gamble Company. I am in charge family laundry is maintained to test be noted in the suggested washing of the activities here, where my official laundry soap products under typical directions. designation, if any The washing test one ever got around finished, cooking is to giving it, would the order of the day. probably be "assist A new pie and an in ant director." teresting French fried The foods work has dish make a typical two main phases, reg combination which is ular c h e c k i n g of served, with a salad" Crisco for quality bowl, toast, and tea and performance, and to the tasters for recipe testing and de 1 u n c h . Unanimous veloping. approval is necessary Samples of Crisco for the recipes being f r om the various tested to be approved plants come to Ivory without further test. dale for checking and VVhen approved, they although very care are filed. fully controlled tests An afternoon of are carried on by work on choosing o the r departments, recipes for a proposed kitchen testing is cook book, or a sys used frequently to tematic survey of check and amplify c u r r e n t magazines thei rresults. and new booklets for A regular program interesting r e c i p e s of recipe t e s t i n g and ideas is next on is carried on to supply new recipes conditions. Two regular washwomen my program. This is the work which I for advertising. A carefully selected each do two regular family laundries a do on any typical afternoon. small group of testers pass on new dishes day. From this work, soap consumption But it may be interrupted at any point which are the essential part of simple is recorded and test pieces are ruil by a request for any one of a number of luncheons served two or three times through for a constant check-up on the food tests, or by an unexpected batch of a week in the kitchen. Recipes for efficiency of the soaps being tested. fabric swatches on which results are to magazine and newspaper advertising, The actual operation of this laundry, be wired. Plans must then be hurriedly as well as for cook books, are checked especially the washing and drying pro changed to include the new emergency in the Experimental Kitchen before cedures, are the responsibility of the tests. They are run on the foods or being approved. Home Economics Department. fabrics submitted as quickly and com The laundry work is divided into two A more detailed description of my pletely as possible to meet the request classes; fine hand laundering and regu day will give a better idea of the of the sender. VV ork of this type takes lar family laundering. A regular Ivory variety of problems that make up the precedence over the previous plans for washability service is maintained for Home Economics Department activities. the afternoon. textile manufacturers and retailers. This day I start as usual at 8 A. M. Several long-time problems are usual Half yard swatches of fabrics which they dressed in the simple wash dress and ly going on, but they are frequently submit to us are tested for shrinkage white shoes which are my laboratory interrupted by such short problems as and color fastness by six washings. "uniform." Supplies are ordered and these so that they do not become monot Fascinating materials of all kinds are then the household laundry is visited onous. New ideas and an increased ' sent in for this test, and if they come up to see that the bundles for the day enthusiasm are the results of a short to our standards, they are approved as are all in and the laundresses well start vacation from the longer problems. Ivory-washable. Several girls are kept ed. Incidentally, the "bundles" are regu After going through this representa busy all the time in the testing of these lar family washes brought in by various tive day with me, you will agree that fabrics and making of the "approved" members of the plant and office. these are a variety of problems which cards. Back in the experimental kitchen a we are called upon to meet in ex In addition to regular swatches, many box of knitted garments sent from New perimental laboratories. miscellaneous articles are sent in to York is waiting to be tested. In this -by Elizabeth Myers, '36 2 April, 1938 Researching with Animals of Leisure by Daisy Mary Kimberley ESEARCH workers, on the whole, are being used in a foods ex Rhave retiring temperaments. To periment which is to test the ef look for them necessitates trips into fects of different storage periods the Chemistry Building on a rainy Sun and different lengths of time of day evening, through dark and shadowy drawing.