her stove and regulate its heat.

Uniforms, etc.--Tell the pupils that you have shown them what has been
provided for them, but you want them also to provide some things for
themselves. It will be necessary for them to bring a large, plain, white
apron, having a bib large enough to protect the dress; a pair of
sleevelets; a holder; a small towel for personal use; and a white muslin
cap to confine the hair while working. They will also need a note-book
and pencil for class, and a note-book to be used at home for re-copying
the class work in ink. The latter book is to be very neatly written and
kept for reference after it has been examined by the teacher.

LESSON II

USE OF EQUIPMENT

The little girls who make up the classes are not so far removed from
their "playhouse" days that a survey of the dishes, stoves, and tables
will not give them an eager desire to begin using them. This desire
should be gratified, but as the use always necessitates the cleaning as
well, it may be advisable at first to make use of the equipment only for
the purpose of showing proper methods of cleaning.

A short lesson on cleaning may be given in a few minutes, and the rest
of the period spent in putting it into practice. The teacher may proceed
somewhat as follows in the development of a lesson on cleaning:

DEVELOPMENT OF A LESSON ON CLEANING

MEANING OF CLEANING

Take two dishes--plates or saucers--exactly alike. Have one clean and
the other soiled with butter or some well-known substance. Ask the class
the difference between them. One is clean and one dirty. What substance
is on one that hinders your saying it is clean? Butter. What else could
be on it? Jam. What else? Dust. What else? Gravy. Now instead of telling
the name of the particular substance in each case, let us try to find
one name that will apply to all of the substances which, as you say,
make the dish dirty. Let us give these substances a name which will show
that they do not belong to the plate. We may call each of them a foreign
substance. And if I take the substance off the plate what am I doing to
the plate? Cleaning it. Then what is cleaning? Cleaning is removing a
foreign substance.

METHODS OF CLEANING

1. _Scraping or rubbing away the foreign substance:_

What would you use to remove the butter from the plate? A piece of paper
or a knife. What are you doing with the knife or paper? Scraping or
rubbing off the foreign substance. Then how was it remove