The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-20
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)
 Manual training Is simply the tram ing of the hands. Of all wonderful things on earth the hand Is surpassing g and superlative in beauty and capaoll- ity. Look at it. Four fingers and a thumb an open palm; what other in- strument Is there so plaint, so flexible so obedient to It's owners will?
 Then, girls, as if one hand were not enough, each of us have two. TO teil the truth, we do not make half the use we ought of the poor left hand, which is treated like an orphan chiid whose education Is neglected, while everything is lavished on the much prized right hand The fact is we all ought to be able to use both hands i'm partially, to be as delft and clever In the use of the left hand as in that or the right
 one sign of a good brain is a sure, safe and accurate method of using the hands. You may fancy that 1t Is very important for you to learn a good deal of science, ever 80 much history. and ever so much arithmetic. But, after all, 1t is just as important that you should know how to do things well, swiftly, throughly and easily with the hands You don't want to be awkward and clumsy in using fingers and thumbs.
 People who are skillful in the use Of their 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 well educated or accomplished who did not know how to make her own garments with dainty neattness, who could not darn stockings nicely, ond who was unskilled in the art of setting in a patch and making old linen last after 1t had begun to break here and there in thfn places. l think my self that to do plain hand sewing with elegance in a finer accomplishment than to en.broider beautifully.
 Yet to be sure. embroidery is the poetry of the needle. have seen in a home in New Jersey some pieces Of artistic embroidery which are fit to be harded down as heirlooms, of to find a parmanant place in some museum Of art They are marvels of exquisite shading and coloring and resemble the most beautiful specimens of work with the brush.
 I think Hear Dorothy remarking to Gladys that for her part she does not like sewing and never did; that she has heard her mother say there Is no econ omy in making clothes at home. when they may be bought at reasonable rates in the shops, and that she for one does not m Sln to be coaXed and humbugged I-to sitting down with heSdle "heh she would much rather be doing some thing else.
 Very well, Dorothy. yod have the privilege of candOr, but just listen to me. my 1ea-.
 If any one of you girls is conscious tf a pronounced, decided and strenu- GUS averson to the manual training which you can get by learning the womanly art of sewing. then I advise you for your own sake to conquer the aversion long enough to learn what you don't like. I have said this before in another connection. I now repeat that nothing is better for girl in the line of mental discipline than resolute- ly 10 undertake and diligently to carry through some undertaking which does not much appeal to her. Every one