The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-11
- GIRL DESCRIBES
 THE COOKING AND
 LAUNDRY CLASSES
Gives an Interesting De- scription of How the Work is Conducted and Express es Appreciation of the T,aSeNne

In the letter published to-day from the Cockburn High School of Leeds. Eng, to pupils of the Waltersville school of this city the writer describes the classes in cooking and laundry work and evinces considerable interest in those branches of the school work.
 Cockburn High School,
 Burton Road,
 Leeds,
 9th November, 1903. Dear Friend:
 1 think it will be a great pleasure to correspond with you; we had your let ters read to us, and thought they were very interesting. The Cockburn High School is a very large one. and is situated in Hunslet, a district in Leeds which is in West Riding of Yorkshire. The school was named after MT. Cock burn, who was for many years a mem Der of the educational committee, and afterwards became chairman. It was opened in the year 1902 on 9th July, and occupies a great amount of land. and I think should be very tired if I tried to count the number of windows it contains. The school contains two departments, Preparatory and Second ary. The children in the Preparatory department are from the ages of to IA years. and in the Secondary depart ment are from 12 to IT years, and then they so to the University if they pass a special examination. Our school is one of the best buildings in England. My class teacher is Miss Stott, and the principal of our department is MT. Crowther, and the principal of the Sec ondary department is MT. Hamer. They are very nice and good to their schol- ars. We don't have any classes under Standard three, and upwards to St. Seven. The boys and girls are not to- gether except in Standard three and four, Accordingly there are a great many class rooms needed. Owing to so many children attending this school. there is not a vacant classroom for our class, so we are in the boys cen tra1 hall. a large room where the chil- dren assemble each morning to have prayers, and listen to any notices which may have to be given out. On our window sill we have different kinds of plants which look very pretty. We have great many privileges at our school. for instance, a gymnasium where we drill, play basket ball, jump the donkey. and do many more gym nastic exercises. We have a cookery room where we learn to cook. Our teacher is Miss Nicholson, and is a very good teacher of this domestic work First the teacher talks to us about what we are going to make, then we wash our hands and begin cooking. We. have to be very clean, and have our hair plaited and tied back. and each girl wears a clean apron and cookery sleeves. I think this lesson IS very interesting and useful to us, as we shall benefit by it in our after life. After we have finished our baking we clean all the utensils, and at the close of the lesson, we try the things which have teen made. We also have a laundry room, where we are taught tc wash and iron. The teacher is Miss Shillito, and she tells us to bring a different garment every week. We first have a demonstration lesson. and then we take notes on it; after this we wash the garment and iron it. We are also taught dressmaking. The boys are taught woodwork. French is also a special lesson. In our room we have a round clock hanging from the ceiling, and some pretty pictures hanging from the wall. It is very Interesting to read your letters, as I am studying Americ a in my Geography lessons and I should be much obliged to you if you woul ] write and tell me more about life in your country.
 am, yours sincerely,
 HILDA COLLETT.