Novelty: (1) Sample mounting, (a) Cards are cut a given size and are divided with the ruler into spaces for samples, with proper margins, etc., according to trade demands, (b) Problems involving the various sizes and shapes of cards and samples, using cards and rulers for the work. (2) Sample cutting. (3) Cutting materials for boxes, (a) Pulp board, (b) Covering plain, flowered, (c) Economy of materials. (4) Problems based on above work. (5) Trade problems, (a) In sample mounting, accuracy, speed, (b) Cost of materials. (6) Bills and receipts. (7) Income, expenditure, savings. (8) Civic problems.
Millinery: (1) Measurement of frames. (2) Trade problems, (a) Quantity of material, (b) Price of materials, (c) Economy of material. (3) Orders, (a) By letter, (b) By order blanks. (4) Bills and receipts. (5) Income, expenditure, savings. (6) Problems on manufacture of silk. (7) Civic problems.
English
Aim: 1. To facilitate oral and written expression. 2. To give practice in business forms: Spelling: (1) Technical terms of each trade department; (2) Textiles and other trade materials; (3) Ordinary business terms. Descriptions: (1) Written work on materials used and articles made in each department; (2) Outlining and defining of department work. Business Forms: (1) Letters of application; (2) Letters ordering goods; (3) Telegrams, postal cards, etc.; (4) Writing of advertisements.
In addition to practice in spelling and in the writing of business forms, the work in English aims to be in close correlation with the other subjects taught. As a rule, the latter part of each recitation period is spent by the pupils in writing upon the subject in hand. The purpose is to obtain from them freedom of expression after arousing interest in a subject, rather than to get long compositions necessitating home study and probably generating a dislike for written work. Attention is called to paragraphing and emphasis is laid upon both the form and the manner of writing, but form is made subservient to thought. The interrelation of Art Department helps the student to appreciate the need of good form in the appearance of a written page.
Physical Education Department
The young wage-earner who goes into trade untrained at fourteen years of age is greatly handicapped by her physical condition. Either through ignorance or neglect early symptoms of disease are disregarded, and it is not until she finds herself out of employment as a result of physical weakness that she realizes that good health is the capital of the working girl.
Many of the girls who enter the school are found to be suffering from poor vision; enlarged glands caused by decayed teeth; poor nasal breathing as a result of adenoid growths or enlarged tonsils; anæmia; skin eruptions; slight asymmetries and poor posture. These defects produce exaggerated nerve signs and poor nutrition.
Aim
The work of the Physical Department is to correct as many of these irregularities as possible and also to train the student to a knowledge of her body and how to care for it, that she may be able to stand the long hours of confining work and be able to show efficient results in her trade.