A crowd of Americans smiling and waving. Next scene shows a dining room or institutional dining hall in the United States. A large number of children gathered to eat at a school or orphanage. Children in nice school clothing eat their meal in a dining room. Boys and girls being served food at a cafeteria counter as they line up. Boy children sitting at a table are seen eating their food hungrily. A boy eats spaghetti and is making a mess. The boy smiles after having his meal, with sauce still seen on his smiling face.
A demonstration in a classroom in the United States. A teacher with a model of a bridge made of wood. Two students next to the model of the bridge as the teacher demonstrates the bridge to the class. Opening partial slate reads, "Learning how Ceasar built the bridge that enabled his army to conquer the Germans."
An art class in the United States. Girls at desks sketch and paint. A student paints fashion designs during an art class at a school in the United States.
A sewing or seamstress class in the United States. Girls learn the art of sewing as they cut material from patterns at a sewing class. A young woman at a sewing machine stitches a dress. The girls fit a dress on dressmaker's dummy. The girls work on hats. A girl tries out a finished hat.
A girl models clay in the United States. A girl fashions a clay to make a bowl. The girl molds the bowl. She runs a linen through mangle.
Boy and girl students learn various skills in the United States. A 1920's film clip imagines a future where women may be out of the home and men stay home to cook. Slate reads, "When the future wife leaves for the afternoon, she will say to hubby, Now, John, you have dinner all ready by the time I get home." Boys are seen at a domestic cooking class. The boys are wearing chef hats. A boy makes a pie crust and puts it in a pan. The boy fills the crust with apples, adds a top crust, and trims and crimps the crust expertly. Boys are shown eating the apple pies they have made. Girls work at a machine that automatically forms pie crusts. They feed flattened squares of pie crust into the pie crust making machine. A different group of girls in a cooking class prepare a pudding. A family at a dinner table eat the pudding.
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