Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-11-29


| assembly room, offices and storeroom.
Concrete reinforced with steel is the
| construction material which meets
conditions best. 1t is specified for the
standard schooIhouse.
Already 135 school buildings of this
type have been completed and 173
others are in process of construction,
of which 81 lacked very little of COM
pletion and were already occupied at
the time the director made his report.
Methods Correct.
The industrial program is being
promoted constantly through the me-
dunn of provincial industrial super
visors; inspectors and instructors form
the travelling corps of the general Of
fee; various publications, bulletins,
and correspondence; through indus
trial exhibits; through the appoint
ment of pensionados to receive train
ing along such lines, and by means
of the special courses offered in the
Philippine Normal school and the
Philippine School of Arts and Trades.
Such satisfactory progress is 70 be
reported as to convince the director
that the methods employed are sub
stantially correct. On entering the
school, the pupil must Immediately
take as part of each days work GER
tain manual exercises in the nature
of play work at first, but which gradu-
ally lead up to the regular industrial
courses provided in the advanced
,N-;,,, sw% Al
grades. Special courses in farming,
housekeeping and household arts,
trade work, and business are offered
for those pupils who desire to do more
industrial work than that prescribed
in the general intermediate course
These special industrial courses are
replacing the general course in many
intermediate schools. Already Al
schools are giving the farming course
Z ! are giving the housekeeping course,
35 are giving the trade course. AZ the
teaching course, and one the business
course. as compared with total of
1919 conducting the general course.
1t is at once evident, with require.
ments so definitely fixed for Industrial
work in the schools, the great major.
ity OF the pupils who are enrolled must
be engaged in some branch of this
work. An examination of the figures
included among the statistical tables
of this report will show that of the
total enrolment of 233.740 boys and
13S,S42 girls during the month of
February, 1912 tan average month";.
ZIG, 290 boys and 125.203 girls-91 per
cent of the entire monthly enrolment
were doing some form of industrial
work. More specifically, It will be
found that 1920 boys were taking
manual training and trade work, 96.167
boys we're engaged In school garden
ing and farming; 15,4S5 girls we're also
engaged in garden work. and 1G5,450
boys and 6S,194 girls were taking up
various lines which go under the gen
eral caption Of minor industries. It
will be noted that 1882 girls were
pursuing the subject q housekeeping
and household arts. Further in that
connection it viii be found that in the
subject of lace making alone 16.439
girls were receiving instruction; in
embroidery 1883 and in cooking A.
768. There we're 22,965 boys and 1909
girls making hats in the industrial
classes, 40,264 pupils mah!ng mats,
and lO4,424 studying the art OF
basketry.
From another point of view, o. 167
pupils engaged in school gardening
cultivated 3Al46 school gardens ar,l
"a .6s2 home gardens during the year.
.319 pupils were csrolied in the regu-
lar trade school classes; 1853 In regu-
lar trade courses in other schools;
arre 1850 in the shops operated in
connection with provincial and other
Intermediate schools. In addition to
the above. 1886 pupils were taking
work in 2se primary wood working
shops conducted In connection with
municipal primary schools 10 all parts
Of the islands.