Jean Harris: lectures and demonstrations in home economics

              Miss Gean Harris
 LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN HOME ECONOMICS


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THAT the most practical and valuable equipment for the average woman is a knowledge of the science of Home Economics, none will dispute.  Chautauqua is a community effort to improve the present and retrieve the past and to help men and women to happier, more prosperous and helpful lives.  A course of Chautauqua lectures and demonstrations in Home Economics affords hundreds of women and girls who have not had the opportunity for scientific instruction the chance to gratify a lifelong desire and acquire practical, helpful, up-to-the-minute knowledge for use in the home.  This means the ability to control and utilize forces unseen to the naked eye.  It means the absolutely safe, the scientific and correct solving of home problems.  It means properly cooked, unadulterated food, economically and tastily prepared and daintily served.  It changes the dining room from a feeding place to a family social center.  It means the practical avoidance of infectious diseases, the proper care of the

 sick and the feeding of infants and children.  It means the ability to judge textiles, and clothing material and the selection of that which is best suited to the needs of the individual or the family.




It includes the domestic arts, sewing, millinery, interior decoration, etc., the cultivation of the aesthetic, the beautifying of the commonplace and the brightening of life.




Chautauqua should be an event extraordinary!  Important it must be then that so vital a department of its work be entrusted to one of unquestioned and altogether superior qualifications.




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It is therefore a genuine pleasure for us to offer as speaker and demonstrator, Miss Jean Harris, Bachelor of Science (University of Missouri), now dean of the department of Home Economics of Christian College of Columbia, Missouri.




Miss Harris is a type of the 
worth while
 young women of America—cultured, sensible, affable and socially delightful—glad of the opportunity of meeting chautauquans and presenting her subject in a dignified but thoroly fascinating manner.




In the discussion of foods and cookery, actual demonstrations will be made during the lecture, the platform being transformed, for the time, into a laboratory - kitchen - dining room, and made ready for one of the most interesting features of the day's program.




Lectures on subjects other than foods and cookery will be illustrated with such material and apparatus as the subject demands.



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MISS JEAN HARRIS LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN HOME ECONOMICS

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Meats (The Cooking of—Demonstrated).


Batters and Doughs (Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, Etc).


Vegetables (The Cooking of).


Salads and Desserts.


Candy Making (A thoroly interesting, spectacular and delightful demonstration).


The Dining Room (Table decoration and service).


Food Adulteration.


Household Sanitation.


Home Nursing of the Sick.


The Care of Contagious Diseases.


The Feeding of Infants and Children.


Adulteration of Textiles.




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