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Title: Curious schools
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Schools
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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or material, as you may judge by thatpile of garments just brought in by the fifth class. I glanced around and saw on the platform behindme a curious medley—sheets, dressing-sacques, hand-kerchiefs, dusting-caps, holders, towels, curtains, table-cloths, all sorts of aprons, undergarments, and partsof dresses showing as great a variety of taste as thevarious homes from which they are brought. These are all to be looked over, and most ofthem will need to be basted, continued the teacher, before the children can work upon them. I oftenwonder how anything in the way of sewing was everaccomplished when the regular teachers were ex-pected to do all this extra work aside from the dailyrecitations. It was a marvel to me how Miss Cummings herselfmanaged to prepare enough work for a thousandpupils when all her time in school hours was occupiedin teaching the mechanical part of sewing to thedifferent classes; but before I had time to solvethe problem or to ask any more questions, the big ■38
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Choosing thimbles.—at miss bracketts school. Iii the Boston Public Schools. work hampers were brought in, and the work forthe hour distributed to the class before me. The school-books had all been tidily piled togeth-er and put away in the desks before Miss Cum-mings came to the room, and everything was conduct-ed in so orderly a manner that within five minuteseach child had her little lap-bag unrolled, her nee-dle threaded, and her piece of work in hand. These little lap-bags, remarked the teacher, are the very first articles I teach the children inthe Primary class to make; and they use themthrough all the grades until they graduate from thecutting department. Each bag is labelled, and at theclose of the sewing hour the work is neatly rolledup, put inside, then collected in these large baskets. Please, teacher, Ive got to the end of my seam,and now I dont know .what I must do next! It was a tiny brown-eyed girl that spoke, and whenMiss Cummings called her to the platform I saw the

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