Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SEWING EXHIBIT shades and tints of a given color 5 but improvement is inevi- table, and the results areseen in the effects. Some are the daintiest of combinations, others are rich and full in color. The mechanical part of the work is irksome to some of the girls, but even that is usually outweighed by the certain results. Every girl is glad to know how to make a pretty bow. Slowly and carefully the points in bow-making are taken up and soon the class-room is decorated with bows galore. In bow-making, as in the trimming of a hat, the laws of design are useful at every turn. When we do good work our bows and trimmings are as carefully thought out as any design in drawing. , The first hat is trimmed with paper, and each in turn criticised. Most girls realize that it is a secret worth having that will enable them to take an old hat and old trimmings, and from them construct a stylish hat, or, better still, to cover a whole hat with velvet, and do it as perfectly as any milliner. At the end of ten months they can not only trim hats, but they can make the frames and cover them with velvet, straw, lace or mull. But all this time we have been doing something else, something of vastly more importance, something we touched on at the beginning of this article, and something the girls have not thought about as they made their hats and dresses, and yet it has been the real object of our work: it is the making of character. Surely all will agree that these months of patient, persevering labor, of self-control, of the acquisi- tion ofmanual skill, have done much toward making broader, nobler Women of our girls. I-Iave we not, then, been doing our sharetoward helping our pupils to find themselves ? t 19

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