next year in addition to this instructions will be given in selecting different cuts of meat the best methods of baking and boiling deep and shallow frying and carving and serving foods the principles taught in this class are put into practice by each student in the kitchen five hours a week will be devoted to this work fruit work will be given the first third of next year this includes first canning all seasonable fruits by the various methods making all kinds of preserves and marmalades giving different methods of making jellies ketchups spiced fruits sweet and sour pickles and meat relishes and second lextures on the chemical nature of fruit its acids and sugars and the value of fruit as a food and its action on the human system four hours a week will be devoted to this work in addition to this a course including all kinds of plain and some fancy cooking and covering in a general way all sub jects with which a house keeper in moderate circumstances needs to be familiar will be offered a three course lunch will be served daily during the winter months each member of the class preparing some portion of the meal and assisting in the serving of the plates they will also take turns in waiting on the table the confidence and skill thus acquired are invaluable to the students rooms will be fitted up and furnished for the use and con venience of this department commercial department jsotetf business men have been and are still complaining against the inefficiency of the large army of stenographers and office workers that are being turned out each year by the many commercial schools of the country this should make every young man or young woman who undertakes this work deter mine to make himself or herself an expert every student at tending a school giving a commercial course of two or more is years in length has an opportunity of becoming efficient — yes expert in commercial branches in connection with general high school work if he but have the desire and determination in this line of work there is an urgent necessity for high ideals the student who starts his work in typewriting and shorthand with the intention of learning enough to enable him to take a position at the bottom of the stenographic help in some office realizes his desires to the extent that he is able to take a letter at a moderate rate of speed and make a fair transcription but the student who enters the work with a position as court steno grapher in view who sees a speed one hundred-seventy five or two-hundred words per minute ahead of him is the one who is going to get the position that pays the salary and it is he that is going to make rapid strides in the business world should he choose to leave the stenographic profession and in book keeping the student who desires to learn how to keep books in a small grocery store or meat market usually acquires enough knowledge of the subject to post sales slips and keep a simple ledger but it is he who is determined to be the head book keeper of a large business office that usually fills that position efficiency should be the watch word of every commercial student it is within the power of every one to be an expert skill in shorthand is but the conscious training of mind and body to act unconsciously skill in typewriting is but training the fingers to obey me chanically and with mechanical accuracy the command of the brain . through a commercial course there is an opening to the business world for any young man why not be a good penman you can a halt should be called on the poor penman it would add very much to the appearance of the bulletin boards and to your work how would it be to have a whole school of at least moderately good penmen the best student in bookkeeping is the one who does entirely individual work — dependence never develops independence