Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-19

inches, from which she learns tho
meaning Of warp. woof and selvage,
and upon which she makes regular
stitches.
From this course beginning she goes
through all the forms Of hemmlng,
backstitchng. overcasting, ETC., learns
to sew on buttons and work button
holes, and eventually to do the finest
tucking. hem and featherstitching.
There Is q night school for drafting,
Icutting and making garments.
Cooking School-The cooking school is
supplied with gas ranges, aladdin oven
and the necessary small supplies. a
class meets each day for work The
girls were making HOP yeast" and next
week will make bread from 1t. The girl
who first finished her yeast wrote the
recipe on the blackboard. They study
charts showing tho relative cost and
nutriment of various cuts Of meat, and
make diagrams of OK and pig, locating
the different cuts They keep the room
IN order. black the stove set n table, etc.
| The personal neatness and cleanliness
of all the children were remarkable.
The sewing girls had on white aprons
and the cooks white caps.
! Many letters of great interest were
read to the board, among them one
from Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, author
| or In His Steps" Mr.. Sheldon's assist
ant Rev. l.. A. Talbert, contributed an
account of the social settlement work
or MS church among the colored people
of Topeka, Kansas. By system of
prizes for neat gardens, front yards cut
flowers poultry, ETC.. the settlement has
done great deal to improve the colored
quarter of the city
Miss Tinllham. founder Of the Boston
Fruit and Flower Mission, sent reporfs
covering the work of thirty years. The
flowers. fruit, small vegetables and
Arpfr n, <r,,v<. -,
the small villages about Boston, to the
Central Committee in the city, which
attends to their prompt distribution to
hospitals, schools and shops, or to the
| old and sick, whose needs they know.
Railroads and transfer companies fur
nish free transportation and delivery. n
central church provides the receiving
room and the service OF distribution is
free.
CITY Missions-The city missions of
the society do the work which seems to
them most needed in their localities. A
number of rescue homes are in their
charge. probably as many and as we'll
managed as those under the control of
any one organization. In towns in
which the society HIS no such home one
of the duties of the city missionary is
to seek and help the fallen. One city
missionary writes that she has services
three times week and weekly cot
tage prayer meeting in the tenements.
She helps the hungry. clothes the naked.
cares for the sick and dead and com,
forts the bereaved. She also has n
sewing school and has offered q prize
to the girl who comes with the cleanest
hands.
Another warns and comforts and
teaches and has q day nursery over
FLOWING before It has been open month.
She has adopted the very practical
plan OF following up and learning the
merits of persons who apply for aid to
subscribers TO her fund.
Birmingham has a helpful sewing
school. Nashville n good kindergarten
and Kansas City day nursery.
The history of the enterprises men
toned shows in both matter and man.
ner that they are run on solid. sensible
business plans. There Is hope for char
liable effort which is the outgrowth OF
common sense. a wise man says: eve
have had zeal without knowledge and
knowledge without zeal: we must haye
zeal and knowledge" We have In Nor
folk the zeal and the knowledge In
separate places. They should ba com