ngs to use with the figured coverings.

Orders

Where trade orders can be used without keeping the girls too long on the
one problem, they prove a great incentive and also help them to acquire
speed. Private orders give more variety in the work, and thus enable the
girls to adjust themselves more easily to each season's new styles. The
private orders, however, being smaller in number, do not help the
students to acquire the speed that the repetition does in the large
trade orders. Each kind of order work is used, as it can be of advantage
to the development of the student.

ART DEPARTMENT

The courses of work in the Art Department are shaped according to the
needs of each trade department. Various phases of work in dressmaking,
electric power operating, novelty, and millinery are made "centers of
interest." Each girl thus finds her art aiding her to be more valuable
in her trade. Her enthusiasm is awakened and she is stimulated to
self-expression directly along the line of her chosen work. The entering
students lack in the technical skill which can be used in their trades.
The first step, therefore, is to give the elementary exercises needed in
their departments. This is followed by more difficult and more artistic
work as the student shows ability.

Aims

To help the work of the trade departments, to improve the trade selected
by each student, to give ideals.

Conditions

Time of average student in art, seven months, three hours per week.
Previous art training little or none.

Difficulties

The students do not see or estimate correctly; they are not exact, and
they lack ideals.

Organization of Art Work

I. _General_ course for _all_ students, connecting Art Department with
Trade Courses. Approximate time, three months, three times a week.

1. Principles of Proportion: Measurements by ruler and free-hand.
Related lines and sizes, as in hems and margins.

2. General Use of Principles: (1) Horizontal, vertical, oblique
lines for machine practice. (2) Related margins and spots as used in
the writing of letters, the orderly placing of subject on a page.

3. Specific Department Work: Departments express their needs to Art
Department. (1) Machine operating: (_a_) Lines--horizontal,
vertical, oblique, for machine practice. (_b_) Quilting, banding,
practice for curves and square corners.

(2) Sewing: (_a_) Lines--horizontal, vertical, oblique, for machine