4. Straw Sewing--(excellent wages for a short season, but the worker
can then return to good wages in general operating): Women's and
men's hats.

II. Use of the needle and foot power sewing machines.

1. Dress and Garment Making--(seasons nine to eleven months, and
fair to good wages): Uniforms and aprons, white work and simple
white embroidery, gymnasium and swimming suits (wholesale and
custom), lingerie, dress embroidery, dressmaking (plain and
fancy).

2. Millinery--(short seasonal work, low wages, difficult for the
average young worker to rise): Trimmings and frame making.

3. Lampshade and Candleshade Making--(seasonal work, fair pay). This
trade supplements the Millinery.

III. Use of paste and glue: 1. Sample mounting (virtually year work,
fair wages). 2. Sample book covers, labeling, tissue paper
novelties and decorations (seasonal and year round work, good
wages). 3. Novelty work (year round work, changed within workroom
to meet demand, wages good). 4. Jewelry and silverware case
making (year round work, wages good).

IV. Use of brush and pencil (year round work, good wages): Special
elementary art trades, perforating and stamping, costume
sketching, photograph and slide retouching.

_Note._ Year round work, in general, includes a holiday of longer or
shorter duration, usually without pay.

Entrance Plans

The school is open throughout the year in order to train girls whenever
they come--the summer months being slack in most trades are especially
desirable for instruction. The tuition is free, and in cases of extreme
necessity a committee gives Students' Aid, in proportion to the need.
Entrance to day classes for girls who are from fourteen to seventeen
years of age and who can show their working papers or be able to produce
documentary evidence of age, if under sixteen, can occur any week.

Each girl who enters, after selecting her trade, is given a typewritten
paper showing the possible steps of advance in her chosen course. She
takes this home in order that the family may know what is before her.
She can by special effort or by outside study lessen the length of her
training. The first month in the school is a test time. If the girl
shows the needed qualities she is allowed to continue.

During the month of trial her instructors decide what she needs and if
her chosen trade is the bes