Excerpt from A Girl's Problems in Home Economics: Healthful Clothing, Dress Design, Clothing Construction, Interior Decoration, Household d104iles, Care of the Home Home economics deals with the activities that are centered around the home life of the girl. Any effective study of home economics, therefore, must use the some materials and proc esses which she encounters in the actual situation. Insofar as possible the classroom should provide an imitation of the real situation in daily life which the girl will encounter. It is because of this need for experience in real activities that it has been suggested that the girls buy their own patterns and mate rials for their problems in clothing construction. This and similar procedure often seem not to be worth the trouble unless we understand their significance. If the school is to provide adequate textile training it must include the use of real textile materials. N 0 amount of read ing will furnish the same understanding and appreciation of textile materials. The study of Chapter 7, Fabrics That We Use Everyday, and Chapter 15, Furnishing Your Own Room: Curtains, Rugs, Bedding, will not be well done unless it is accompanied by a study of real materials. It is often pos sible to obtain many of these materials from the girls' homes and from manufacturers or merchants who are willing to furnish them free of charge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.