New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-03
HATS MAGIC WORD
Vacation School Pupils Al Rash
for Millinery Classes.

Never did the vacation schools conducted by the
Board OF Education seem such blessing as they
dc now, when the East side is piled so high with
decaying garbage that the visitor scarcely en-
dure TO pass through the streets in which, never
theless multitudes Of people live and breathe for
twenty-four hours every day. Into the cool and
spacious Basement of Public School lS8, at East
Houston ana Lewis streets, none Of the odors OF
the street penetrate and of the thousand children
who registered there yesterday many We're largely
actuated no doubt, by q desire 10 find relief for
their nostrils, well as TO escape from the other
dsconlforts OF their craInped and sQuald homes.
In The Bronx vacation schools, where the
homes Of the children are pleasanter. the attend
is nothing like what it is here said the prba-
Opal, Miss Sarah NJ. Hatch. Last year we never
below thousand day, no matter what the
weather and other conditions might be-
The children come, too. on account of the loaVeS
and fishes. They want crocheted shawls for their
mothers and little bottles for their precious babies.
whom they watch over with such wonderful. moth
erly care. ana lneY want mats ana uFesscS LOT
themselves. And the Board OF Education teaches
Them how to make all these things, and even fur
nishes them with the material. The millinery class
Is the of all good TO many little East Siders
these days, and tots as young as eight years an
swer laConically when asked what class they want
10 60 into. BATS
The idea of money making also comes in. The
children can make money out OF the things they
learn to make in the vacation schools There IS
little girl who registered yesterday for the
sixth time NJ No. ISIS who has made from So 10 50
a week crocheting shawls, at the same time doing
ell the homework for her family. And the boys
regularly bring chairs 10 for their ncighbors,
and get quarter apiece for them.
And then there the baths. These viii open
next Monday morning at No. ISIS. and between SIX
hundred and seven hundred little folks will take
baths every morning. They come in droves long
before the baths opened, each with towel
the little mothers and little fathers with their
babies who also share in the pleasures of ablution
Later the babies are deposited in the kindergarten
and the little mothers get little respite from care
In the upper classes while they learn 10 sew,
crochet, cook and make hats.
The school will be open again for registration
to-day until y o'clock. and in the afternoon the
teachers viii get out their material and get every
thing ready begin work Monday morning. There
will be classes in cooking, housekeeping, en-
broidery, knitting millinery, plain sewing and
dressnlaking. carpentering. chair Gaming, leather
and woodwork. Venetian iron, art and nature
study besides Kindergarten classes. There VIII
be also classes in English for foreign children and
classes for children who want to complete their
qualification for working papers. The children
choose their subjects, but all of them re
qUired spend one period a week in the art and
nature classes.