Savannah morning news., 1886-06-20
LEARNING FANCY WnRK.

10 so much as catalogue the cities aud
towns which have already adopted some
form OF manual training as an integral
part OF their public school system is be-
yond the limits Of this article. In Phila-
delphia, which was early induced to move
In the matter by the efforts of Charles G..
Leland, the sewing lessons begin with the
A. b. O., and are carried through every
grade of the public schools. In the In
dustrial Art School and the Manual Train
ing School of that city, the children ofthe
public schools are taught drawing, tree
hand and mechanical; designing and mod
cling, wood carving and carpentry, metal
work and the use of tools. Some of the
specimens of joining executed by little
people under IA years are so neat and so
exact that it is difficult to realize tnat it
is only intelligent training, and not eyes
abnor!nally true and hands unnaturally
steady by which such results have been
accomplished. In Boston, sewing and
drawing are taught in all the public
schools, and the children are healthiully
rested and refreshed when tired OF copy
book and grammar by lessons in cookery
and carpentry in the North Bennett street
aud Heminway schools and in the Latin
School. In Baltimore the Manual Train
ing School, which provides thorough in
struction in drawing, carpentry and ma
chine shop work is maintained as an in
tegral part of the public school system.
In Worcester and Gloucester, Mass, in
Hoboken, Jersey City and MOntclatr, n.
j., in Moline and Peru, H., in New Ha-
ven, Conn, and in jamestown, N. Y, in
dustrial work has been cordially adopted
as regular part OF the public school
course. The branches taught include, as
rule, industrial drawing, sewing and
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training course is as carefully graded as
her arithmetic classes, teaches cooking,
cutting and fitting to girls, printing to
boys, type-writing and shorthand to the
older pupils of either sex. Clay modelling
and casting in plaster are introduced with
success, especially in New Haven. So
far from interfering with instruction In
other lines the new system wherever in
troduced has so thoroughly awakened the
interest Of pupils and has proved such a
relief to the wearisOme, iteration OF the
school routine that in addition to Its di-
rect benefits it has actually raised the
average Of scholarship in other branches.
New York and Brooklyn have as yet
made no move toward introducing man.
ual training into their public schools, but
interest in the matter Is daily increasing.
In New York the Industrial Education
Webb Is President, has been for two years
vigorously at work, and besides establish
ing and maintaining Training School at
"a East Eleventh street, with classes IN
industrial drawing and clay modelling,
cooking. sewing, domestic economy and
kitchdn garden. is looking forward to the
speedy introduction of the new education
into many of the charitable einstitutions OF
the city. The Children's Industrial Ex-
hibition, held under its auspices couple
Of months ago, proved so thoroughly sue
cessful that since its close orphan asyl-
ums and refOrmabories have been sending
women into Its training school to be htted
as teachers to introduce the work into
their institutions. A special committee
of the association has developed into the
Industrial Education Association OF Ho-
boken, and a similar committee in Brook
lyn may be expected to do so ere long.
The New York organization has an excel
lent backing. and beside its corps of OH
GERS, including Miss Grace III. Dodge,
Vice-PTesident: Mrs. G.. ). Bussing, Treas
urer; Miss s. Edwina Brown, Assistant
Treasurer, aud Miss Jane +. Cattell, Sec
retary, it counts among its members and
cordial sympathisers President Barnard,
OfCOlumbia College, Chauncey NJ. Depew,
Abram S. Hewitt. Theodore Roosevelt,
Mrs. j. G.. Croly (Jennie June), and a
large number of society women such as
Mrs. Courtlandt Palmer, Mrs. Levi Nor
ton, Mrs. William Allan Butler, Mrs. j.
Pierrepont Morgan and Mrs. X. Jesup.
It is a young society and only fairly un-
der way, but It's influence already prom
lses to be wide reaching.