altering policy is to take only the amount needed for educational
purposes. (5) The business organization and management required in the
adequate conduct of a large order department can itself be utilized for
educational purposes, and has its value for training students who show
promise of becoming good stock clerks.

Trade workers are employed in the business shops connected with the
various departments. These assistants have proved their value in making
the best utilization of the order work. They facilitate the completion
of the work on time and help train the girls to feel responsible for
their share of it. As the students work slowly at first, and as their
hours in the shops are interrupted by other studies, the trade workers,
when necessary, continue with or complete the articles while the girls
are absent. They make possible the tradelike organization of the shops,
for each one has around her her own little groups of assistants, and she
teaches them while she also works. Constant repetition of the same
process ceases, after a time, to be valuable to a student, hence her
time must not be wasted by too simple work or by unnecessary details.
It often happens also that an article may require expert work in its
completion which the students cannot yet do; the trade workers select
for each girl the process which will be of value to her, and then do the
work the students cannot do or should not do.

The following lists will show the class of orders which have been
demanded by trade and turned out by the school:

_Operating Department Orders_: 1. Trade Work: Ribbon run on webbing
for suspenders, infants' dresses--eight different styles,
children's aprons--two different styles, hemstitching and
embroidery for yokes, ruffling--hem and hemstitched, faggoting.

2. Individual Custom Orders: Dressing sacques, aprons (kitchen,
gingham, and work), gymnasium suits, waists, children's dresses,
corset covers, drawers, skirts and chemise, sheets, pillowslips,
curtains, straw hats, fancy petticoats, kimonos, handkerchiefs,
fancy neckwear, infants' outfits, boys' waists, quilting,
hemstitching by yard, silk waists and dresses hemstitched,
tucking by yard, waists, collars, cuffs, and cloth embroidered,
initials on linen and monograms on saddle cloths, ruffling by
yard.

3. Order Work for Other Departments: Dressmaking: Machine work on
nightgowns, corset