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Friday, February 10, 2023

Household Management Students Practice in Model Home, Feb. 10, 1923

College Women Learn to Wash Dishes and Rear Children in a Model Home in Greensboro

By the Associated Press

Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 9—A model home, the plans of which were exhibited at the National Society of Vocational Education at St. Louis last year, is being used at the North Carolina College for Women to give the girls there practical experience in household management.

The house is built of red pressed brick, in colonial style, and contains every housekeeping convenience. Home economics seniors have been divided into three groups and each will spend at least six weeks during the year at the home.

Here, they will be given time studies in order to save energy, as meal preparation, dishwashing and cleaning house. They also will have work in home cookery and table service. Children of different ages will reside in the home and will be studied from the standpoint of feeding, mental development, play and right habits. Miss Blanche Shaffer, dean of the school of home economics, will supervise the home and the girls studying there.

Downstairs in the home, there is an entrance, a dining room, living room, pantry, kitchen, bedroom and sleeping porch. Upstairs are four large bedrooms, with a large attic. The walls of the home are ivory tinted with ivory woodwork. The furniture for the downstairs is of mahogany. The color scheme is delph blue and figured mohair draperies.

The furniture for the bedrooms all has been painted and decorated by the students. The hangings, bed covers, lamp shades and other accessories also were made by them. In one room the color scheme is lavender. The furniture is ivory with a flower design in lavender. The draperies are of lavender Japanese crepe with bed coverings of the same. Another bedroom has green enamel furniture with cretonne to match the green. A third bedroom is furnished in ivory, while the fourth has not yet been furnished.

From page 8 of the Durham Morning Herald, Saturday, Feb. 10, 1923

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