Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-12-27

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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 classeo 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 week turns out fin
ished dress makers in three years.
The cooking classes are full-of
men as we'll as women. Here Is
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
witch House in Jones street maintains
a 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.
ut 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, zone of the first who came to
us was a pitiful little hunchhack,
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 it 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. 1t Is not part of it, 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. A small pillow cover or bag
brings from $40 to $50, while bed
spreads. curtains and similar large
pieces run we'll up into the hundreds.
The pupils earn from 81 to IS
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, If
she chooses, take course in gas
stoves. with good place waiting for
her when she has finished, and is pre-.
pared to demonstrate a 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 her knowledge. She may
learn to be trained nurse maid or a
mothers helper, lady's maid or a
telephone girl, all at no cost to her.
self.
Whenever there is strong public
interest In any particular subject,
just as surely will there be chances
to become experts in 1t. 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 regular course
of instruction in that subject with
full training in construction and prac.
tical drill in operating under all cir.
cumstances.
Some Of the railroads have opened
schools for the instruction of their
dining car conductors in department
and conduct, as well as in the com.
department of the service!
One of the big retail cigar companies
has a course of two weeks, which all !
the clerks are required to take, h |
treatment of customers and the judg- |
ing of tobacco.
When 1t comes to special instruc-
ton where a fee is involved, the op- |
are as the sands Of the |
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