. Others are in the assorting-room
putting away clothes-bags into numerous boxes. The ironing-room farther
on is filled with busy workers. Days come during every week when time is
spent in the study of laundry chemistry. Rust and mildew stains and
scorching are some of the problems of the Laundry, and they find
solution. Soap, starch, water, and bluing have their composite qualities
and are analyzed, and no more interesting correlation is there than that
of the laundry with the class-room.

Although each Tuskegee girl is expected to become proficient in one
trade at least, all are required to attend the cooking classes. Girls
belonging to certain classes are scattered in the various divisions,
each busily engaged at her chosen trade. At the ringing of the bells in
each division at stated hours, classes form and pass to the
training-kitchen for their lesson in cooking. Both night-school and
day-school girls report every day until every girl has received her
lesson weekly. The normal classes have theory and practise one hour
each, the preparatory girls one hour weekly for their trades.

This is true also of girls in the normal classes. They spend one hour in
basketry study, making in all three hours away from their individual
trades each week. Theory is combined with practise, and many a fanciful
thought is woven in with the reed and raffia of the Indian baskets,
African purses, belts, and pine-needle work-baskets. The shuck hats and
foot-mats are so foreign in design that one often wonders how it were
possible to utilize the same material in so widely different purposes.
But our girl is progressive, and not a few instances have occurred when
one has been informed of the presence of a Tuskegee student in a remote
country district, by the inevitable shuck hat prettily designed and worn
by an utter stranger. So remunerative has been the work that many have
earned money enough from the sales of these hats to purchase books for
the school year and pay their entrance fees.

Few girls work at typesetting. Those learning the trade are in the Boys'
Trades Building. The same is true of the girl tailors, who are as
capable workers in the trade as the boys. The majority of these girls
are in night-school, and of late years have not earned much for their
work. In former years the greater body of the students were working
their way through school, and by their labor would earn enough to
complete their education in the Academic Depar