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HOME CRAFT--FLAME COLORED HONORS
1 Cooking: Make bread in two ways
and two kinds of cake.
2 Cook meat in four ways: Roast,
broil, fricassee, boil.
3 Cook left-over meats in four
ways.
4 Cook three common vegetables each
in three ways.
5 Make two kinds of soup with milk,
and two with meat.
6 Prepare four salads, making at
least two kinds of dressing.
7 Prepare eggs in four different
ways.
8 Prepare four desserts: one
gelatine, one boiled, one baked, and one frozen.
9 Prepare a gruel, a cereal, an
eggnog, and milk toast and arrange an invalid's tray
attractively.
10 Gather two quarts of wild
berries or fruits and make them into a dessert. R
11 Can or preserve three different
kinds of fruits, at least one quart of each kind.
12 Use fireless cooker successfully
on cereals, meat and vegetables.
13 Cook meat, a vegetable and a
dessert, or fruit, in paper bags.
14 Chafing Dish: Prepare four
appetizing dishes.
15 Write out an appetizing balanced
vegetarian diet for a week.
16 Write out a menu for three weeks
suitable for a school girl who is inclined to be too
stout.
17 Write out a menu for three weeks
suitable for a school girl who is inclined to be too
thin.
18 Give examples of five expensive
and five inexpensive foods having high energy or tissue
forming value. Do the same for foods having little
energy or tissue forming value.
19 Prepare balanced menu and
superintend cooking for one month in home.
20 Make delicacies for the sick and
send where needed through the National Plant, Flower,
and Fruit Guild, or some other distributing
organization.
21 Cook for one month in a home.
22 Take instructions in neighbor's
home once a week for two months, actually doing
cooking.
23 Make two pounds of butter a week
for two months.
24 Pick, dress and cook a fowl.
25 Marketing: Describe
characteristics and identify and select six chief cuts
of meat; also state the market price for each.
26 Market for one week one week on
one dollar and a half per person, keeping accounts and
records of menus, etc.
27 Do the same for two dollars.
28 Do the same for three dollars.
29 Know the best season for the
chief fruits and vegetables available in your locality
and a reasonable price for each.
30 Know the way flour, sugar, rice,
cereals, crackers, and breads are sold--packages, bulk,
etc.--prices, dangerous and common adulterations.
31 Know how to secure full weight
and pure food.
32 Laundering: Do a family washing,
using modern labor-saving devices if possible.
33 Iron eight hours in two months.
34 Wash and iron a shirt waist and
a skirt.
35 Wash and iron a lingerie dress.
36 Press a suit, or a skirt and
coat.
37 Remove three common stains from
wash material, two spots from nonwashable material.
38 Use two agents for softening
water, two soaps for different uses, two kinds of starch
for different uses, two methods of bluing, and two
household methods of bleaching.
39 Housekeeping: Care for hardwood
floors, walls, carpets, rugs, hardwood and upholstered
furniture, as it should be done for the regular
housecleaning.
40 Sweep and dust, using two kinds
of sweeping or dusting compounds, moist cloths, dust
absorbing cloths, and a vacuum cleaner.
41 Properly dispose of waste and
garbage from the home, and know its proper disposal by
the city.
42 Make up a bed for a baby, a bed
with a draw sheet for a very sick patient, and know the
proper airing and changing of bed.
43 Air and make one bed every day
for two months.
44 Wash and wipe dishes and leave
the dining room in order, after one meal a day, for two
months. (Two girls may share the work, continuing it
through twice the time, to obtain equivalent honors.)
45 Take the entire care of one room
for one month, to include sweeping, dusting, washing of
windows, care of flowers or plants, and what may be
desirable for the attractiveness of the room. This may
be the club room of the Camp Fire Girls. (Two girls may
share the work, continuing it through twice the time, to
obtain equivalent honors.)
46 Put away clothing, rugs, furs,
blankets, for the summer.
47 Take instruction in a neighbor's
house for one morning a week for two months, actually
doing house work.
48 Take care of a cat, dog, bird,
or a tame animal, for three months; know what harm they
do, what diseases each may carry, and how they may be
treated.
49 Learn the care of plates,
silver, glass, pots, pans, aluminum ware, lamps,
copper.
50 Scrub a floor once a week for
two months.
51 Take entire charge of a pantry
for one month.
52 Clean ice-chest thoroughly twice
a week for two months during the summer.
53 Keep bureau drawers in order for
three months.
54 Care for at least two kerosene
lamps every day for a month.
55 Take care of the milk and cream
from at least one cow, and see that the pails and pans
are properly cleaned for two months.
56 Repack a faucet.
57 Install an electric bell and
care for it for three months.
58 Build a furnace fire and care
for it two days.
59 Invention. Make a useful
household invention.
60 Care of Sick: Arrange a sick
room to make it sanitary and calculated to give greatest
possible comfort to patient and usefulness to doctor and
nurses.
61 Use a clinical thermometer to
obtain the temperature of an adult and an infant, and
tell the temperatures indicating normal, fever, and
dangerous fever conditions.
62 Give the common symptoms of
scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, measles,
tuberculosis; also home care and prevention of these
diseases.
63 Entertainment: Sing weekly in
chorus or glee club for not less then three months.
64 Sing in a quartette, glee club,
or organized chorus for not less than eight hours in any
one month.
65 Memorize and sing alone five
folk songs.
66 Play any musical instrument in
an orchestra, reading the necessary music, for not less
than eight hours in any one month.
67 Play from memory five piano
pieces of the difficulty of Schumann's "Scenes from
Childhood."
68 Play the piano or organ for one
Sabbath service each week for three months.
69 Play the accompaniment for any
school exercise for not less than eight hours in any one
month.
70 Commit and recite five hundred
lines of standard poetry.
71 Commit and recite an equivalent
amount of standard prose, such as an oration, essay, or
story.
72 Write a story, a poem, or words
of song which is either published or adopted for use.
73 Have entire charge of two
programs for the weekly meetings of the Camp Fire.
74 Have a party of ten with
refreshments, costing not more than one dollar; keep
accounts.
75 Entertain three or more little
children for two hours a week for at least two months.
76 Know and tell five standard folk
stories.
77 Write and give a play.
78 Plan and give a pantomime
entertainment.
79 Make six visits a month for
three months to sick in homes, hospitals or other
institutions.
80 Teaching a boy to dance any four
of the following dances: Virginia Reel. Portland
Fancy, Lady of the Lake, Howe's (or Hull's) Victory, Pop
Goes the Weasel, Chorus Jig, Lancers, Boston Fancy,
French Reel, German Hopping Dance, Varsouvienne, Furteur,
Gottland's Quadrille.
81 Each member of a Camp Fire that
participates in carrying out a whole-some party, or
hike, including at least as many others (either boys or
girls) as Camp Fire Girls, may receive one honor. (The
work must be well planned and organized and each member
given special duties. The Guardian must approve the
plans, but it must be really in the hands of the
girls.)
82 Baby Craft: Know how milk should
be prepared for a six-months-old baby; know what is good
milk for a baby a year old and how it can be tested.
83 Know how much a baby should grow
in weight each week for the first six months, in height
for each month for the first year, the relation of
weight to disease and vitality.
84 Know and describe three kinds of
baby cries and what they mean.
85 Care for a baby for an average
of an hour a day for a month.
86 Make a set of practical
playthings for a child three years old.
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