The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-12-27
(. CHANCES Open TO The HELPLESS
Many Schools Whose Purpose Is to Put Men and
Women and Children In the Way Of Earning
Living.

ture classes, which when the weather
permits are held on the roof, and at
other times in the store gymnasium.
A girl who has once had this train
ing for her work, whether she spends
any time in the store afterward or
not, is entitled to call herself ex-
perienced, and therefore to receive,
wherever she may apply for work,
the preference that is given to ex-
perienced help"
The largest training school for
adults in the city is the evening
school on West Forty-sixth street.
This is generally considered school
for negro men and women, but as
matter of fact It is open to all races,
OF the 1900 registration nearly
100 are colored. The whites for the
most part are foreigners, who avail
themselves of the classes in the COM
mon branches and of the classes,
full to running over, which teach
English to foreigners.
Americans make up the classes In
manual training, thirty-one in all,
OF which those in dress-making for
women, and those in the care OF
boilers and in electricity for men, are
most crowded. There are eight dress
making classes, and the course of
four lessons a week turns out An.
ished dress makers In three years.
The cooking classes are full--of
men as well as women. Here IL
taught not only domestic and fancy
cooking, but also institutional and
restaurant cooking.
Much Of the present interest in in
dustrial training is due to the efforts
of the settlement workers. Green
wich House in Jones street maintains
handicraft school where girls and
women are instructed in lace making,
weaving and allied crafts.
The classes are under the direction
of Miss Katherine Lord and are held
for the most part in her studio, an
old stable discovered by Miss Lord
In the rear of the settlement house,
and so delightfully."- fitted up as to
tempt one to become lace maker, If
only for the surroundings.
These girls and women, italian
for the most part, though twenty ma
tionalities are represented in the
block in which the school is located
can make, mend, alter and match
various laces, Irish crochet, Carrick-
macross, Limerick and several kinds
of pillow laces, and are now being in
structed in Venetian point.
1T has been surprise to me to
see how readily the girls have learned
the lace work and the interest and
pleasure they take in it," said Miss
Lord. "One of the first who came to
us was a pitiful little hunchback,
who came in preference to going to
an ostrich feather place, where the
work would soon have wrecked such
frail health as she had
We almost hesitated about TAX
ing her. But you should see her
now. She is one of our best workers,
neat, quick and with real feeling for
the lace as 1t grows under her hands.
Her health is greatly improved
while her Joy In her work and in her
surroundings here in the settlement
is pleasure to every one who comes
near her."
In old Greenwich Village, too, is
the Needlecraft School, where twenty
girls. mostly Italians, are learning to
do fine embroidery in colored silks.
The largest and most ambitious of
the lace making schools is the one
at Richmond House in Macdougal
street. Although in a settlement
building, it Is not part of 1t, and is
maintained by an entirely separate
organization.
This school is closely allied with
those lately established in Italy for
the revival of lace making among
women and girls. Signorina Mari,
who assisted in organizing them, is
at the head of the one here. The
twenty-four girls in her classes are
taught the Italian laces, and especial
ly the old Italian cut work.
The work is beautiful, but It is far
from expensive, and the person who
expects to pick up Christmas presents
at bargain prices here will be disap-
pointed. small pillow cover or bag
brings from $40 to $50, while bed
SPREADS, curtains and similar large
pieces run well up into the hundreds.
The pupils earn from 81 to SIS a
week while learning, and as they
/, gain in proficiency their wages are
steadily raised.
OF the making of demonstrators
there is no end. A woman may, II
she chooses, take course in gas
stoves, with good place waiting for
her when she has finished, and is pre-
pared to demonstrate stoves vir-
tues and correct its vices.
She may receive special instruction
In sewing machines. and forthwith
proceed to earn her living by dissem-
mating he: knowledge. She may
learn to be trained nurse maid or a
mothers helper. ladyis maid or a
telephone girl, all at no cost to her
self. ~
Whenever there is a atrong public
interest In any particular subject,
just as surely Will there be chances
to become experts in it, For the past
few years every place that instructs
chauffeurs has been full to running
over, while recently the demand for
competent operators for motor boats
has been so great that school has
been organized with a regular course
of ingtructio0 In that euI,io.4 .,,isl