The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-06

have gardens where vegetables are
grown. They have tree nurseries.
and there a:e '1asses Of seed selection
and in poultry raising.
IN the eighth grade purse are
gwen IN housekeeping and the house
nold arts. The girls learn domestic
science and they practice cooking.
Ih1s work will eventually make a
great change in the housekeeping
and cooking of the people. Physiology.
nygiene and sanitation are taught in
all the schools.
The Trade Schools.
In addition to the regular schools
there are trade schools and manual
training schools. There are many
thousands of students who are per-
LectinS themselves in special lines
with q view to having a trade after
leaving school, and $4,000 are dong
industrial work IN the upper grades.
About 1900 boys are learning car
pentry, and they will supplant the
Chinese and Japanese carpenters who
now practically have q monopoly of
the building and cabinet work of the
stands.
In the school Of arts and trades at
Manila the boys are taught how to do
all kinds Of mechanical work. They
nandle machinery, they repair auto
mobiles and they do all sorts of wood
working and iron working. In addi-
tlon to this there are thirty-fVe other
trade schools, or one for each prov
nee. The most Of these are equipped
with machinery outfits, and all AVE
adequate sets of woodworking tools.
IN many of them iron working goes
on. thousands Of students are now
tudying in these schools, and in some
cases the institutions AVE developed
ntO we'll organized business enter
arises.
The instruction is along the lines
that Will be Of value to the people.
Take the maxine of hats. and other
Work in connection with the Pnlllp-
pine fibers. The little ones take quickly
to weaving and they are making
hats, mats, bags and hammocks,
sone Of which are exquisitely beau
Iful. The fine Filipino straw hat now
5OeS all over the world, it rivals the
PANAMA., and it might form one OF
the great exports Of the island. A
dealer at Manila gently received an
order from the United States for one
million of these hats, but he had no
the people to make them. In 1903
more than 100000 were exported;
out of these less than 2O0,0Jo went
to the United States.
This education in weaving and along
other Industrial ines is not confined
to the trade schools. AS I have sale
before, it is a part of every ornmor
school and it will eventually make tht
tlllpinOS a great Industrial nation.
Uncle Sam realizes this possibilit.
and General Edwards is urging tna'
Industrial education De promoted IL
every part Of the islands. It was il
o,.4.toton with tnlS i-1aJ the DeDart
ment Of Agriculture has been alice
with the bureau of education, and tn
" -
IS expected from the natural skill
which the children show in embroid
cry and ace making. They are full,
5 the equals of the japanese or Chimes
; IN all such work, and they may u
: ply the United States markets.
; Shirt Waists for the United States
Not long ago Mr., O'Reiliy Of tn
bureau Of education was sent to tn
United States to see what marke
there might be for Filipino embroid
> cry. He took back patterns Of shir
: waists and other things which ha'
been embroidered in BELGIUM an
; Japan. These will be copied by tn
schools to be sold IN our stores, 0
original work of a similar nature b
) produced. One dealer says he coul
use a hundred thousand such shir
-. waists at a price which would be YER
= = high for the Filipinos. The childre
{ in this way work for their SCHOOLS
and thew will also max money fo
= themselves. AS General Edwards say
= the two great necessities Of life ar
good health and an occupation. GU
y government is giving the first to tn
: FiliDinos through its sanitation meth
: DDS and instruction in hygiene, and
. is giving the second through this ir
dustrial work in the schools.
| In some parts Of the islands the
are ia him the children to rails
Il silk. They grow the mulberry trees i
u tneir schoo1 gardens. They hatch t.
IL eggs and rear the silk worms and re-
e the silk from the OcOOnS. This me-
be made a house industry as it is
, China and Japan. Later on tea raisin
:. will probably be taken up.
) A great work is going on in educa
e inp the Filipino teacher. Since we too
; hold Of the islands about 200 OF 4
y native students have been sent by OF
- government to the United States to
y. educoted and there are now lar.