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Special Course in Home
Economics
Through the courtesy of the Singer Sew
ing Machine Company a course of instruc
tion in machine-operating was offered to
Spelman students during the first part of
January. The company installed enough more
machines to make it possible for each stu
dent to have one to use, and provided all
the materials required for the lessons and
an experienced machine operator to give the
instruction. The work was voluntary on the
part of the students and classes were sched
uled without conflicting with other college
courses.
The lessons afforded an opportunity to
operate both foot power and electric ma
chines, to make use of general and special
attachments and to have instruction on the
care and repair of machines. Special attach
ments, including the hemstitcher, the darner,
and buttonhole-maker, were demonstrated,
and this work was arranged in books with
colorful binders.
Attractive certificates were awarded to
those whose work was accepted. The Spel
man students who received t he certificates
are Mamie Bynes, Cora Douthard, Edna
Hackney, Lillie Smith, Annie Stephens,
Maggie Williams, Mossie Alexander, Willie
Cotton, Edna Douthard, Julia Hatcher, Alice
Lomax, Mary Adams, Rosebud Brown, Julia
Drayton, Louvenia Freeman, Erma Green,
Mayaline Jamerson, Ruby Nelson, Bertha
Saunders, and Gladys Williams.
Miss Brown, who has charge of the edu
cational work for the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company in this region, commented
favorably upon the work done by Spelman
students, and said it was difficult to tell
which one did the best. It is of interest to
know that the instruction is not given in the
high schools and that college students will
be prepared to include it in clothing con
struction courses. One college which has a
large department of Home Economics makes
the holding of this certificate a requirement
for graduation.
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Washington's Interest in
Children
Clara Haywood, ’34
Colonel and Mrs. George Washington
spent their happiest moments as peaceful
citizens at Mt. Vernon with their two
children.
To persons who do not know of his genu
ine and unselfish love for children, or who
know not of his deep affection for Martha
Custis Washington, it is a strange fact that
he loved as his own her two children by a
previous marriage, Patsy and Jackie.
Even had Washington not been naturally
interested in children he could not have re
sisted loving the children of such a woman
as was his wife, for she was all that a man
could desire in a life partner. Her peculiar
understanding of the young colonel and his
affairs gave him deep satisfaction and joy.
To Washington, whose positions as farmer,
agriculturist, manufacturer, surveyor, and
general—in both the French and Indian War
and the Revolutionary War—necessitated out
door activity, the comfort and inspiration
found in Martha’s calm sympathy and de
votion was all that he could wish for and
particularly filled his need.
It is because of this sympathy and under
standing that George Washington found
time, despite pertinent responsibilities of
State, to make evident his deep affection
for her and her children.
His love for the two children never be
came worship of any kind. It was sincere
and sane. Fortunately, Washington was not
the financial guardian of the children. This
fact helped to prove that his interest in
their welfare was wholly unbiased. His un
selfish attitude and his ability to penetrate
into the heart of matters are illustrated in
the decision he made in regard to a trip
abroad which had been planned by his step
son, Jackie Custis. In a letter written to
the boy’s tutor he said that he approved of
the trip if his son went with an attitude
of “undertaking it upon a principle of im
provement rather than a vague desire of
gratifying an idle curiosity or spending his
money wantonly”. He told him that he had
not yet become sufficiently educated for a
tour of travel. “I conceive a knowledge of
books as the basis upon which other knowl
edge is to be built, and that it is men and
things more than books he is to become ac
quainted with by travel.”
It was Washington’s deep insight into
the needs and desires of children which led
to his establishing the first free school in
Virginia to which the orphaned or poor
might go to learn honor and respect of one's
country. Not only did he give an endow
ment and provide for the administration of
the school, but he personally saw to tin*
education of many of his little friends who
were financially incapacitated.
Washington’s understanding of child life
and its perplexities came not from any
supernatural insight or glamour, but from
common sense and experience. He loved
children and children loved him. George
Washington was indeed worthy of being
called the “Father of His Countrv”.
What Is Your Rate of
Metabolism?
As a prerequisite to the study of basal
metabolism, the nutrition and dietetics class
made a visit to Grady Hospital, where Doctor
Moseley, a student interne, explained the
Benedict-Roth metabolic machine. This ma
chine determines the utilization of food by
registering the amount of oxygen given off
by the individual who is being given the
test. Other methods of determining the abil
ity that an individual has to burn foods are
the measurement of carbon-dioxide exhaled
by the individual and the measurement of
the amount of heat given off by the body.
The students were fortunate enough to see
a patient taking a preliminary test. The
factors influencing internal activities of the
body while at complete rest are age, sex,
height, weight, temperature of room, baro
metric pressure, poise of the subject, and
food. The person taking a metabolic rate
must be void of food twelve hours before
the rate is taken and the last meal before
the test must be very light in proteins be
cause proteins speed up the rate of metab
olism.
No two persons utilize, to the same degree,
the food eaten. A machine of this type can
therefore show how much food can be taken
care of by the individual, which in turn is
determined by the oxygen intake.
The class was told that the metabolic ma
chine was used in particular for identifying
glandular disturbances, especially those of
the thyroid gland.
In the case of disturbances of the thyroid
gland, the machine will indicate rapid con
sumption of the food taken by the individual.
An over-secretion of this gland is revealed
by certain outward manifestations. They
are as follows: most often, loss of weight,
extreme nervousness, tremor in the hands,
and, in the worst stage, bulging of the
eyeballs. This hyper-state is known as
exophthalmia. The under-secretion of the
gland, or hypo-thyroidism, is evident by a
reading below the normal. Some of the
symptoms are sluggishness, slowness to grasp
mentally, and irritability. This individual
burns his food poorly, not having the ability
to take in the oxygen that is needed for its
oxidation.
Doctor Moseley told the class that both
of these disturbances can lie remedied, the
procedure to be based on the readings from
the machine.
This demonstration has given the students a
good background for further study and they
greatly appreciate the attention given them
by a busy doctor.
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