the evening pupils
come from the factories and shops. Seventy-five names on the waiting
list of day classes indicate the popularity of the school.

"We try to keep the school like the homes from which these girls come,"
explained Mrs. Trowbridge, as she showed her tastefully arranged
apartment. "The girls in the Technical High School worked out the color
schemes, selected the patterns and bought the materials. We tried to get
things which were good looking and durable."

The three kinds of work, (1) Cooking, (2) Housekeeping, and (3) Sewing,
are carried on in rotation, a girl spending one entire afternoon at
cooking, the next at sewing and a third at housework. Thus each girl
does an afternoon's job in each subject. The cooking class studies
successively "breakfast," "lunch" and "dinner," in each case preparing
menus and cooking the food. A meal is served nearly every day. The
service falls to the housekeeping class, which is also responsible for
cleaning up, tending the furnace, washing, ironing and the like.
Included in this part of the work are a number of thorough discussions
of personal hygiene and home sanitation. To the sewing class, the girls
bring their home sewing problems. Certain classes darn stockings while a
teacher reads to them. Some girls make underclothing and dresses. The
beginners hem table cloths, napkins, towels, dustcloths, etc., for the
school. The classes are small (ten to fifteen) making individual work
possible.

"No, no," protested Mrs. Trowbridge, "we have no course of study, or
else, if you please, there are as many courses as there are girls. Each
girl has her problems and we aim to meet them."

The backyard, utilized as a garden, furnishes vegetables which the girls
cook and can. These vegetables, together with canned fruits, jellies,
jams and pickles, which the girls put up, give the school such an
excellent source of revenue that last year it turned over $15 to the
Superintendent of Schools.

The crowning work of the school was done in a bare upstairs room which
the girls papered and painted themselves. "Two of them have since done
the same thing with rooms at home," declared Mrs. Trowbridge, happily.
"Isn't that good for a start?"

The home school stays close to home problems, dealing with the facts of
life as the girls who come to school see them. It would hardly be fair
to expect more of any school.

VIII Breaking New Ground

The regular work of the public school has been