Vocational Guidance for Girls eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 203 pages of information about Vocational Guidance for Girls.

Vocational Guidance for Girls eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 203 pages of information about Vocational Guidance for Girls.

Consolidated school, 110

Continuation schools, 179 f.

Cooking classes in grammar schools, 110 f.

Decoration of the home, 40

Department stores: 
  continuation schools in, 179 f.
  statistics concerning women employed in, 180

Dietetics, knowledge of, necessary to the homemaker, 54 ff.

Divorce, dangers of, 82, 218, 220

Doll’s house as a means of teaching the child mechanics of
  housekeeping, 102-121

Domestic work: 
  as a preparation for homemaking, 196 f.
  as a vocation, possibilities in and qualifications for, 185 f.

Dress (see also Clothing): 
  principles of selection, for the adolescent girl, 139 ff.
  problems of, for the adolescent girl, 139 ff., 147 f.

Dressmaking, possibilities in and qualifications for, 171 f.

Education: 
  for homemaking, 25 f.
  of women, effect on home life, 8 ff.

Educational agencies involved in “woman making,” 75-85

Eugenics as influencing marriage, 230

Factory work: 
  as a preparation for homemaking, 200 f.
  possibilities in and qualifications for, 170 f.

Father, characteristics of the ideal, 23 f.

Feeding problems in the home, 53 ff.

Financial knowledge necessary for homemaking, 49 ff.

Food production, possibilities in and qualifications for work in, 175 ff.

Food questions, study of, in schools, 118

Frederick, Mrs., quoted, 18

Furniture, principles governing selection of, 42

Games, training afforded by, 123 ff.

Geography applied to household problems, 116

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, quoted, 56

Girl: 
  adolescent, 130-150
  church’s influence upon, 84 ff.
  dress problems of the adolescent, 139 ff., 147 f.
  educational agencies involved in training the, 75-85
  health of adolescent, methods of safeguarding, 130 ff.
  inner life of, 122-129
  plan for training adolescent, 136 ff.
  school center of society of, 129 ff., 143 ff.
  teaching the mechanics of housekeeping to, 102-121
  work of, 151-217

Grammar school, part played in vocational guidance, 204 ff.

Hall, G. Stanley, quoted, 76

Handwork, classification of, 170 ff.

Health of adolescent girl, methods of safeguarding, 130 ff.

Heating apparatus, 35 f.

High school, part played in vocational guidance, 211 ff.

Home: 
  as a means of training for homemaking, 81 ff.
  building problems in, 32 ff.
  clothing problems in, 57 ff.
  community, relation to, 62 ff.
  decoration of, 40
  establishing a, 27-48
  feeding problems in, 53 ff.
  furniture, principles governing selection

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