The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27
Manual
Training For School Girls.
By MARGARET E. sANesTEI

AZ ANUAL training is simply train
wi ing of the hands. OF all wonderful
things on earth the hand is sur
passing and superlative in beauty and
instrument is there so plant. so hex-
capaDility- Look at it. Four fingers
and a thumb, an open palm; what other
ible, so obedient to its owners will
. Then girls, as if one hand were not
enough, each of us has two. To tell
the truth, we do not make half the
use we ought of the poor left hand,
which IS treated like. an orphan child
whose education is neglected, while
everything is lavished on the much
priced right hand. The fact is we all
ought TO be able TO use both hands i'm
partially, TO be as deft and clever in
the use Of the left hand as in that Of
the right.
one Sign of good brain is a sure
safe and accurate method of using the
hands You may fancy that il is very
important for you to learn a good deal
or science, even so much history, and
even SO much arithmetic. But, after
all, 1t is just as important that you
should know how to do things we'll
swiftly thoroughly and easily with the
handS You don't want to be awkward
and clumsy in using fingers and thumb
People who are Skillful in the use Of
thelr hands are very seldom lacking
IN efficiency in other things.
Every girl used to be taught to do
PLAIN needleWork beautifully by hand.
Before the days of sewing machines no
young girl would have been considered
either we'll educated or accomplished
VINO did not know how TO make her
own garments with dainty neatness,
who could not darn stockings nicely.
and who was unskilIed in the art of
setting in a patch and making old linen
last after il had begun to break here
and there in thin places. I think my
SELF that 20 do plain hand sewing with
than to embroider beautifully.
Yet. to be sure. embroidery is the
poetry of the needle. 1 have seen in
home in New Jersey some pieces of
artistic embroidery which are mt TO be
handed down as heirlOoms, or to find
= permanent place in some museum of
art They are marveIs OF exquisite
shading and coloring and resemble the
most beautiful specimens of work with
the brush.
I think I hear Dorothy remarlxing to
Gladys that for her part she does not
Ike sewing and never did, that she has
heard her mother say there is no econ
oIny in making clothes at home. when
they may be bought at reasonable rates
in the shops. and that she for one does
not mean to be coaxed and humbugged
into sitting down with a needle when
she would much rather be doing some
thing else.
Very wei, Dorothy. YOU have the
privilege Of candor, but just listen to
me. my dear.
If any one OF YOU girls is conscious
OF a pronounced. decided and strenu-
Gus aversion TO the manual training
which you can get by learning the
womanly art of sewing. then 4 advise
YOU for your own sake to conquer the
aversion long enough to learn what
on I har soil - h.,fr ar-a
IN another connection. I now repeat
that nothing is better for a girl in the
line of mental discipline than resoIute-
" To undertake and diligently to carry
through some undertaking which does
not much appeal to her. Every one
OF us is stronger if nov and then she
climbs up some hill of difficulty and
seats herself comfortably on the top
10 view the landscape DER. Mathemat-
les or needlework, either VIII do, if
we conquer our, laziness.
As for other manual training. YOU