Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-31
How to Lice Is Lesson Industrial School
vii Teach to Poor Girls of the Mountains
At Mineral Bluff, the Southern
Mountain Educational ASSo-
citation Has Established a
School to Give the Poor Girls
of the Hills an Opportunity in
Life

Considerable interest has recently
been created by the organization Of the
Mineral Bluff Industrial and Agricultu-
raj School for Girls, which was opened
on the 18th OF last month.
In regard to the school. Miss Helen
Gray. second vice president OF the South
ern Mountain Educational association,
has written the following article:
''The Mineral Bluff Industrial and
Agricultural School for Girls repre-
sents the efforts of the Southern Noun
tain Educational association, whose
headquarters are in Atlanta. Ga
THE school was founded with the
idea of reaching two classes OF girls:
the girl of small means. and the girl
without means
by means OF scholarships. we may
reach the girls who are without means.
There are girls who can make the
where-with-alI for an education during
the vacation months; while the parents
of others can afford to pay the small
sum Of $50, which Is the price fixed for
the ninth months board and tuition at
the Mineral Bluff Industrial and Agrt-
cultural School for Girls.
Half of the day at the school is de-
voted to work and Industrial training,
the mornings being given to the 44ter-
airy course. The Industrial curriculum
includes housekeeping. plain and finer
grades of cooking. such as break-malIng,
jelly-making. preserving, plain sewing,
dress-making, millinery, laundrying, ag-
riculture floriculturelstsp oultry raising.
Other Industrial features Will be added
as the school progresses. Singing, writ
Inc, speaking correctly, etiquette eth.
ics, stenography, typewriting, civic I'M
provement, form part OF the training.
Girls will be trained to be self-support-
ing. The training of good housekeep-
ers will be made speciality.
The school house stands in pisce
of ground 1875 by $50 feet. The yard Is
one of the prettiest at Mineral Bluff,
and has many large apple trees. I'm
der the apple trees are pretty rustic
seats. Space is reserved for basketball
and tennis There are 80 acres which
viii be used for agricultural and other
purposes.
The school house was home painted
by the president and others interested
in the school, the money thus saved
being used for the education OF noun
tam girl.
"A great want OF the mountains, and
tnIs want is expressed in the homes or
these mountain people. is opportunity to
make the where-with-all for the neces-
saries OF life A cannery and jelly and
preserving establishment win be start
ed in time. The spinning wheel and the
loom have not entirely disappeared from
this section OF the mountains; and pref
ty blankets and rugs, shawIs and quilts
are made by the women. The Mineral
Bluff Home Industries shop, operated
in connection with the school. will be
a help to the women marketing their
goods.
"At a great convention of mayors
recently in Atlanta inefficiency was
named as one of the causes or unempioy-
ment
Last week those in charge of the
Mineral Bluff school were compelled 10
turn from its doors an orphan girl who
came pleading for Industrial education.
Is this girl to grow up Inefficient
-Four of our IL pupils are scholar
ship girls, only two of the scholarships
being paid for. There are number OF
girls between IL and IA years of age
whose lives we could influence had we
the scholarships for them.
1--WE make a plea for 3 scholarships.
Let us not forget that the education OF
one girl means the education of Fam
ily.' =