more expensive manufacture, and they have an advantage in the
matter of cleanliness. Covering screen frames made in the Carpentry
Division for the numerous rooms, caning couches, rockers, and stools,
help add to the variety of work in the division. The girl is not
awarded her certificate until she has completed the round of work,
including the fashioning of a bedroom suite from barrels finally covered
with neat-figured denim. The semiweekly theory classes are not unlike
those of the plain-sewing division, and the girl is as proud of her
achievement with needle, hammer, and saw as if she were an adept in
lighter work.

When the machinery was introduced for Broom-making, the girls looked
askance at the appliances. But when the broom-corn was delivered from
the farm, and the pioneer girl broom-maker began threshing of the seed
in the cleaner, an interest was evinced that has increased with the
knowledge that the work, study, or manufacture (call it what you will)
is very productive, especially in the confines of the girls'
broom-factory at Tuskegee Institute. The poultry-yard bought the seeds
threshed off the broom-stalks; the hundreds of old handles collected
cost nothing, and when the wiring, stitching, and clipping were finished
and the girl saw the first broom turned out, there was triumph in the
fact that the industry was the most inexpensive and still the most
productive of credit of all the girls' industries under the roof of
Dorothy Hall. The evolution from the flag-straw broom used in cabins of
the South to the ones now completed and labeled, creates the sensation
of the girl-world in the trades school. The wonders brought out in the
theory class in connection with broom-making were marvelous.
Broom-making has come to remain with our other girls' industries.

Work in the Laundry presents another aspect to the onlooker, and he
doubtless decides on the spur of the moment that all is drudgery here.
Girls are then assorting countless pieces received on Mondays from
students and teachers. They are placing the assorted articles in cages
in the basement. Two boys are filling three washers with bed-linen, and
in another apartment two girls are weighing and measuring materials to
make more soap to add to the boxes standing in the soap-room. Girls
up-stairs in the wash-room are busy rubbing at the tubs. Some girls are
starching, and others are sending baskets down on the elevator for girls
below to hang in the drying-room