The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-18
PUPILS TO Be
TAUGHT TRADE
HIGH SCHOOL MANUAL TRAINING
SCHOOL NEARLY READY.
ONLY ONE IN STATE
Girls win be Taught Domestic SCI
once, Boys Various Trades-Ap-
polntments are Best ProcurabIs and
Every Trade win % Taught.

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From Saturdays Daily.
THAT old objection that q high
school training Ia not practical will
not apply to the Billings high school
much longer. II it ever has,. said
Superintendent G. s. Brother yester-
day, as he unlocked the door into the
new manual training building.
The city is spending more than
$4,000 to make this new adjunct to
the high school the finest Of its kind,
and though the building is not enor.
nous 1t is adequate. and the only edi-
fee in the state devoted exclusively
to manual training for the school chill
dren."
Mr.. Brother led the way into a large.
suany room, its walls kalsomined in
light green, and remarked that it was
the domestic science department OF
the manual training school.
Here" said he, laying his hand on
the tiled top OF a narrow U-shaped
counter, sis where the girls OF the
high school will do their cooking. Gas
from u own gas plant will be piped
in here, and two-jet burners will be In
a row on top Of this table. Under
each section of the table Is a drawer
for holding cooking dishes and mate
rails for making things to eat, and
the little stove will be used IN the
process.
Many Will Learn.
Miss Mabel Adams is in charge OF
this department, and within q week
we hope to have it running TO ca
pacity.' Some 300 girls will learn
how to cook in this room, though Of
course they will work at different
times and not all together.
Besides these little burners, on
which all the ordinary cooking will
be done, there will be installed several
large ranges for baking and roasting.
Miss Adams will begin her work by
lecturing on the properties Of foods,
ETC., and on the effect of various
methods of preparing them. Then the
girls will be assigned their section OF
tie cooking table and taught to work
out the theories in practice.
AT one enl Of the room is a cut
ting table and girls will be taught
how to know and to cut various meats.
r's"In this room also instruction viii
be gwen in sewing and in othe- work
Of the home.
"We have a model dining room.
where the girls will be expected to
learn how to arrange a table neatly
and daintily and serve a meal nicely,
and all the conveniences possible. In
Guiding a wash room, special sinks,
etc, will be furnished"
Manual Training.
On the ground floor Of the new
school is the manual, training depart
ment for boys of the high school.
Here the boys will be taught to han
die iron and wood and to make arti-
cles Of more or less utility.
In the iran department there will
be several down-draft FORCES Of the
latest model and a blast furnace,
which, though small. will be just as
complete as a full sized commercial
furnace. Those who work In the iron
workers department will take the
raw ore, just as 1t comes from the
mine, smelt it into pigs and work up
these, pigs into whatever. character OF
object is to be made.
Before this work is done, however.
every boy who! is in the course will
be required to make his mechanical
drawings, then from those to make
blueprints. and then the patterns from
which the object, will finally be con-
structed. 5 AL.
Woodwork will be a part. of the
training of the boys in the new school,
and, in fact, the purpose OF, the course
is to. give a complete training in
every department Of iron and wood
workers. trades.
Part is Working.
In the basement Of the school there
are nearly a dozen woodworking
benches in use by children Of the
sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The
simpler forms Of Woodworking are
taught in this department, which is in
charge of Miss Matte Travis. Miss
Travis also has classes OF younssAi
grade school children, who are taught
weaving and Venetian iron work. Her
classes are already proving wonder
fully popular.
It is the intention of the scho,i
board to get a man to take charge
ot the high school boys manual train
ing department. but 1t is expected
that this department will not be ready
unit! next fall, and by that time the
school will procure the best Of ability.
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