xperience. Students in this
department need to be watched with especial care to determine whether
they are well adapted for their occupation, and the mediocre worker
would better enter some other field where the opportunities for her are
more encouraging. As the advance is slow the girl also whose poverty is
hurrying her into wage-earning would better not elect this work.

The night classes which have been offered at the school gave training in
the more advanced lines of millinery. The day classes are also prepared
to do so whenever older workers feel they can give time for the
instruction.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

Length of course: Six months.

1. Practice: Shirring, tucking, cording, rolled hem, plain fold,
milliner's fold, and cutting and joining bias pieces.

2. Making and covering buckles and buttons; wiring ribbons and
laces; making hat linings and wiring hats.

3. Bandeaux: Wire, capenet, and buckram.

4. Wire frame construction from dimensions and models; making frames
of buckram, capenet, and stiff willow.

5. Covering frames with crinoline, capenet, mull, maline, and soft
willow.

6. Facings: Plain, shirred, and in folds.

7. Bindings: Stretch, puff, and rolled.

8. Plateaux: Plain and fancy.

9. Making hats of straw, silk, chiffon, maline, and velvet.

10. Sewing trimmings on hats and sewing linings in hats.

11. Renovating: Ribbon, velvet, lace, feathers, flowers.

12. Machine work: Plain stitching, tucking, shirring, bias strips
stitched on material.

Orders are taken for a limited amount of trimmed hats in order to
provide the students with experience in preparing, sewing on the
trimming, and in finishing the hat.

As millinery is a seasonal trade, students are advised to take, in
addition, lamp and candle shade making in the Novelty Department, or
straw sewing in the Operating Department. They are thus provided with
good trades during the months when their own trade is dull.

NOVELTY DEPARTMENT

Aim

(1) To teach the use of paste and glue in several good trades. (2) A
short course in lampshade and candleshade making for girls who have a
dull season in their regular trade during November, December, and
January.

Lines of Work

Sample mounting, novelty work, jewelry and silverware case making,
lampshade and candleshade making.

Trades and Wages

Sample mounting is pasting or gluing samples of al