The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-07
GIRLS TAUGHT
 COOKING AND
 DRESSMAKING
Special Rooms in Cockburn School
 For Those Purposes.

One of Pupils Describes Her Classes, the School and City of Leeds, England-Second Letter in International Com position Series.
 In the following letter from pupil of the Cockburn High School or Leeds, England; one of the girls describes the work which is expected of scholars in her department and also tells about the city of Leeds.
 Cockburn School. Leeds November g, 1908. Dear Friend:
 We were very pleased to have your letters read to us and to learn some thing about your school and city. will tell you something about my sur- roundings.
 Our school is called the Cockburn High School and I am in form VI in the elementary section. Our class con- ta1ns 50 girls who are Il and F years of age but there are other classes of girls and of boys beside ours. I wish you could see our school build
 
 by electric lights.
 There are special rooms for dress making, laundry, cookery, woodwork and machine work, and we have splendid gymnasium where a drill in- structor teaches us various drills; there are dumbbells, barbells, clubs, parallel bars, ladders to climb up, and a vault ing horse. Twice a week we put on our rubber shoes and are plc ssed to go to the gymnasium. I was glad to hear that you played basket ball for our drill master MT. Cousins also let's us play the same game and we all en- joy it very much and I am defence" ii nthe game.
 Our classroom is room 50. It is large room nearly square, there are number of desks in it which are made to seat two; we have a large black board stretching nearly the length of the classroom. On the blackboard we have a list which has a column for attendance, bank, and the medallists' list where girls names are put that the class think have worked the hard est during the past week, and they are given medal to wear for the week. E We have a stockroom where we keep our books, and each classroom has clOakrOOm to itself
 E On the window lodges we have boxes rof geraniums which flower every year; we also have some stick insects in age which came from South Europe md have made a little sketch of one they are green in colour and when i. they are touched they lie quite still like piece of twig and do not move until they think they are quite safe. .''he little oval shape which you see hanging on the insects leg is the little brown egg from which it has matched
 In the middle of the floor of our class 'oom is a large table which is never without some flowers upon it, which 5 he girls bring, but we shall not be able to get as many now as in sum- Ger as the cold weather is coming on. | We have a number of different les { sons such as Nature Study, Arithr,e- i tic, Grammar, Drawing Painting, Geography, History, Recitation. French nd Composition. In Nature Study we earn about flowers and plants and pull them to pieces to find their diff 'erent parts, we take notes and put yketches in our notebooks, we have alFen the Nasturtiun, Sunf1ower, Michaelnas Daisy and are now study ng the Elder Stem.
 In Painting lesson we have our own oainting boxes and bring flowers, fruit, caves and vegetables. etc., to paint
 In Recitation we learn many pieces if poetry and every girl has beside ,ne of her own choosing. Before Christmas we are going to learn an 'ct from Shakespeare's play "The Mer- ehant of Venice.''
 We have a holiday of 6 weeks at Midsummer. at Christmas, l at Eas- -er andI1 at Whit week.
 Now you would like to hear some hing about our city. it is large one with many fine buildings one of the fnest being the Town Hall which is ',uilt of stone. There are Corinthian pillars in front and great number If steps lead to the entrance. At each and sits huge stone lion which cost large tower and in it is a clock which can be both seen and heard many miles round Leeds.
 At, the side of. the Town Hall is the Art Gallery and Library; in the Gall cry are many beautiful pictures and lively pieces of statuary.
 We have a market which has recent " been built in place of the old one and is called '"The Leeds City Mar ket,' it is a very large one.
 In Leeds we have a museum eStab- 'ished in 1920 in which are interesting things. There are birds, their nests and eggs, there is the skeleton of an ing machines used, there is a room of different kinds of monkeys, and the skeletons of a giraffe, whale, bear, elephant and elk and other inter asting things. Every year we visit the museum and have lecture on various subjects and then we write an account of our visit.
 We have many parks, the most beau tiful being Roundhay Park, in it are lively trees. flowers and lakes and in the hot houses are some rare and trop- teal plants. In the depth of winter the lakes are frozen over and we are allowed to skate.
 Enclosed you will find photograph if our school and postcard of a few of the sights in Leeds. have marked our classroom to show you il. ~
 We shall be glad to have some more letters from you.
 Your faithful friend,
 NELLIE CLYDE.