The department for the teaching of the Domestic Sciences has for its directress Mrs. Booker T. Washington. This department embraces laundering, cooking, dressmaking, plain sewing, millinery and mattress making. It is at present housed in several small frame buildings, except the laundry, which is located in a brick building. Friends have already given money for the erection and equipment of a building for this department. The foundation of this building has already been laid and within a year we hope to have the divisions of this department permanently located in it. Not only are the trades above named taught in this department, but the young women, under the motherly direction of Mrs. Booker T. Washington, are taught the duties of systematic and orderly housekeeping and duties pertaining thereto.
The nurse training department is run in connection with the school hospital and has for its instructors our resident physician and a competent trained nurse. It has not constituted a separate department, but has formed one of the divisions under the Director of the Mechanical Department. The increasing demand for trained nurses in the South has necessitated the establishment of a regular Training School for Nurses in connection with the school hospital.
A complete course of three years has been adopted of practical and theoretical work in the wards of the hospital; two years of which consist of daily work and instruction in the hospital, and the third year of lectures and bedside instructions,
THE NEW CHAPEL, BUILT BY STUDENTS.
ALABAMA HALL. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE.