Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-13

designing new trifies or inventing new fol.
Hes to tempt people to spend their money
she can earn still more.
The department of table and house linen
Is also popular and profitable and there
girls are taught all kinds of embroidery,
from plain initial on handkerchief or q
shams that are sold for thousands Of dol
lars. They initiate drawn work from Rus
sia. Algeria, Turkey. China. Japan. Mexico,
Malta and various other countries so close
ly that it cannot be told from the original.
There are several other departments, and
the girls are sent from one to another In
order to- broaden their ideas. make them
versatile and discover which line Of work
they have the greatest talent for. Some
girls are hopeless and can't do anything
1t Is usually the fault of the mind or the
eye or the fingers. Sometimes 1t Is lack
of patience. For these there is chance
to learn typewriting. bookkeeping and how
to make out bills. and. in connection with
the school, there Is a store at which nearly
$1,000 worth Of goods were sold last year.
This gives q chance to train saleswomen.
deal Of training.
Thus far during the four years that the
school has been In existence there have
been few more than 800 graduates, every
one of whom found immediate employment
at living wages before she left the school.
Many others who did not complete the
course were also able to command good
wages, and some Of them, realizing the
the night classes to finish. The night
classes are also available to girls who are
already employed and want to fit them
selves for better-paying positions.
One of the most important functions Of
the school Is to develop the character Of
It's students. to make good women out Of
the raw material that comes in from the
tenement houses and the public schools:
to teach morals and manners. to instill
pure principles into their minds and teach
them honesty. purity and self-respect. 1t
Is not religious school, and the trustees
are non-sectarian, but no girl can attend
Its sessions without learning the same
things that are taught in Sunday schools
and churches in a direct and practical
way.
The Crowded Schools.
Every public or private school in New
York is crowded, and the educational de-
partment finds great difficulty in keeping
UP with the growth of the population. This
year $24.91a948 will be spent for free public
education from the city treasury without
counting the enormous sums that are re-
auired to sustain the three universities, q
multitude OF professional schools, the
parochial schools, the private schools and
the great variety of educational institu-
women which are supported by private en-
dowment and tuition fees.
There are $40 free public schools under
the Jurisdiction Of the board Of education
children can attend only half-time because
there Is no room for them. During the
year 1865 eighteen new buildings were
erected and twenty-three additions were
made to old buildings to accommodate
1880 pupils. There are now under con-
structiOn thfrty-seven new school houses
and twenty-three additions to old school
houses, which will give sittings for S5,05O
more children. and plans are ready for nine
new buildings and five additions to old
ones. which will give y $50 sittings.
Yet the increase in the number of chill
dren Is even more rapid. In 1888 the aver
age daily attendance in the free public
schools of New York was 800 1872 pupils
In 1903 1t was 568, 100, an increase Of 169, sos
children In six years.