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Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ly dinner; advanced cookery, including canning, preserving,making of jellies, extracts, and baking powder; deep-fat frying; fancybreads, pastry, frozen mixtures, and candies. Cookery for the sick andserving on trays are also considered. Special attention is given to thecuts of meat and the best methods of cooking the cheaper cuts, as wellas to the cost of meats and substitutes. Practical training in housekeeping is given in the school dormitories,kitchens, dining-rooms, and laundry, and in the Holly Tree Inn. In sewing the course includes drafting, cutting, and making under-clothing and a set of infants clothes, knitting and crocheting, the mak-ing of childrens clothing, bed and table linen, waitresses aprons andcaps, and other household articles; rug weaving, dyeing and designing;household mending; simple lessons in trimming and renovating hats. In the Third year, the girls are given a years instruction and prac-tice in simple carpentry, glazing, chair-caning, soldering, repairing 86
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HOUSEHOLD HANDICRAFTS furniture, windows, and locks, and in any other such work which entersinto the care of a home. In the Senior year the work in housekeeping- consists of the care ofrooms and dormitories; waiting in students and teachers dining-rooms;assisting in the teachers kitchen and in the Holly Tree Inn bedrooms,dining-rooms, and kitchen. In sewing the course includes drafting, cutting, and making dresses(each girl making her own graduating dress); making paper patterns,simple lessons in millinery, including the making of wire hat frames andcovering the same with straw braid and trimming. All the girls are given a simple course in home sanitation, includingtalks by a physician (two hours a week) on care of sick room and thesmall attentions necessary to the comfort of an invalid; the laws ofhealth and the influence of heredity; the preparation and use of domesticremedies d.nd disinfectants, and the sanitary care of a home; the pre-vention of tuberculosis; personal habits as af

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