The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06

training that will prepare them direct
 ly for the life they are to live The
 boys receive manual training from the
 very beginning. In the lowesE grades
 they make articles that they can use
 and sell, both in their own localities
 and elsewhere. The most important
 industry taught the boys is hat-weay-
 ing It is a prescribed exercise in
 the primary schools. fThe Bureau or
 Education at Manila considers it one Eof it's legitimate functions to give
 such training in the making of good
 hats as will afford large number Of
 children a permanent means of earn
 ing a Livelihood" wrote MT. Frank R
 White, Director of Philippine educa-
 tion, in 1910, after the courses had
 been introduced, and the development of the work has more than justified
 his claim. Chief among the products
 are the famous tbuntaP hats, made
 from the leaf stem of the opened
 buri leaf The schools do not attempt.
 to replace hand machinery with mod 5ern apparatus, for it is recognized that there is a real demand for the products of careful hand workman ship. Besides the prescribed courses
 in the primary schools, there are reg ular trade schools, where the boys spend the greater part of. the school day in actual manual. labor in the shops A set Of dining-room furni-
 ture in red nara, made at the Phil ippine school of Arts and Trades in Manilla.s sold for s200. at last years
 In the girls schools plain sewing and housekeeping have generally formed the prescribed courses, but re- have been introduced because they are arts which. besides possessing ed ucational value, furnish the girls with a remunerative occupation There young women who had learned em- broidery and Iace-ma king in the con vents under the spanish regime. Fur thermore, because of their great nat ural aptitude for such work, and be- cause of their patience and deltcacy of execution, the Filipino women are among the most skillful workers in the world in these. arts, their products being classed by ex perts as even superior to that of the French and the Swiss. The schools are therefore working on sure ground in teaching lace-making and embroi- dery, and they have ascertained that the demand for the, kind of work their can turn out is practically unlimited. In an effort to increase the available supply of teachers for the work, courses in 1ace-making and Normal School since 1910, l and also in the various vacation as- semb1ies of teachers
 The first thing q Filipino girl does in the sewing class in school is to make for herself a complete outfit of | This work she usually be- l gins in the second grade, but some times in the first Or third. Armed | with an embroidery frame and other | apparatus Gin most cases made by the | boys in the same schooD she advan- ces in proficiency through the various | grades; hemming and embrofdering | cotton squares, fine linen, handker- chiefs, waists, and so on. The more expert girls turn out masterpieces in French net and embroidery. In lace hey make all varieties of pillow ace'' including "torchon'' Spanish ace3, Maltese, Ceylon or Indian, Irish crochet, etc. Battenburg is also made for local use, but it is not en- outraged for export, because the Jap anese can make it more cheaply.
 An idea of the extent of indus strial ,ducation in the PhilinDtneS may be