Evening star., 1911-08-25
EDUCATION.
VI-T1E INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
BY Frederic ]. Haskin.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

children all are taught in a systematic
manner 1t is known unofficially as the
matrimonial school. In New York and
Philadelphia the care of young children
is one of the latest subjects added to the
domestic science course.
The girls vocation school of Albany
last spring demonstrated the practicable
ity of its work by a colonial luncheon
given to tWenty-seven guests. including
DR.. Draper. commissioner of education
in their art class the invitations. place
cards and menu. They designed their
colonial costumes and made them in their
sewing class. They cooked and served
every article on the menu as an ex-
ample of their cooking accomplishments,
and the neatness and order of the rooms
utilized indicated that their instruction
in general housekeeping was practical
instead Of theoretical. The luncheon
was simple and wholesome, demonstrate
ing that the girls had a proper under
standing Of food values.
In the rural and agricultural schools
the part that woman plays in the de-
velopment of the farm
In the Rural home is recognized as
SILL. being quite as important
0cAVVAS. ir economic value as that
of the man. SO the girls are taught the
care of milk, the making OF butter. rails
ing poultry and many other matters of
similar import, in addition to the regular
domestic science work Of the town
schools. Whenever possible the rural
consolidated schools are fitted with the
latest devices of housekeeping apparatus
and the farm girls are taught how to use
them.
For the boys. vocational education may
be continuation of the wood and iron
manual training begun in the elementary
schools, continued through the high
school into the shop or through the
higher technical trade school, or X may
lead trough the commercial course to the
office. through the college course to the
profession or through the rural high
school and agricultural college back to
the farm. In whatever line of work is
chosen vocational educational work in
| America is gradually being established
elementary schools to the actual prac-
| tice of the chosen calling.
| With the ideal of future utility increas-
| ing each year. there are developed new
lines Of vocational education. The fact
| that many girls work in factories has led
| to a course of instruction in New York
trade school by which provision is made
| for eaching 800 girls to run electrically
driven machinery. The favor with which
| this innovation WI be received will
uouutieSs cduse o'hei sehoois " man
similar arrangements. school In Louis
| vile. KY, lately added a thorough course
| in ladies' tailoring as an outgrowth of
| its sewing and dressmaking department.
The educational value of manual train
| ing, even to those students to whom it
| will not be vocational, is
Manual generally accepted, and
i lp s,,ar aociv,
Training. growth in its DEVELOPMENT
| A graduate from the Bradley Polytechnic
Institute last year took for his thesis a
practical cooperative plan for establish
ing systematic woodwork in the rural
schools. which have so far been deferred
| from it by the expense. This plan pro-
] vides an instructor for twenty-five
schools, who shall receive a salary Of