tment and the Industrial
as well. Last year the pay schedule was reduced, and many appeals for
assistance came from those battling their way through. A young girl
whose monthly statement warned her that she owed the school $15, at the
end of the school year wrote the following:

"DEAR MRS. WASHINGTON: I write to inform you of the enormous sum
that I owe on my board bill. I am not satisfied, because I want to
earn something in life, but it seems that means and opportunity
will not permit me. I can't help from crying when I think how
anxious and willing my people are to help me to be something, and
yet they are unable to help me.

"My mother has struggled to bring up eight of us, and now is to the
point where she can give me no more help, and that leaves me alone
to be something by myself. I am anxious to enter day-school so I
may finish my course of study and my trade, and at last let my
mother see me a good, noble woman, who will take care of her.

"I will thank you very much for your kindness, if you will look
into my board bill and help me as soon, and as much, as possible.
Yours gratefully."

As the day girls have put in so many hours of work recently under the
new system, it eliminates the necessity of so many night-school girls
being paid for their work. It is to the interest of the school and its
day-students that fewer work their way through school, and the time has
come to teach this fact. The boy or girl for a time will stagger in the
attempt to gain education, but will be all the more able, later, to
reach the desired goal.

All girls are taught housekeeping incidentally in the care of their
rooms; but the number assigned to the regular division yearly are
instructed in all branches of home industry. The course covering two
years is mapped out thoroughly, and when the girls reach the Senior
class, all have their turn at housekeeping in the Practise Cottage of
four rooms. No girl is graduated from the school without the finishing
touch of the little home. Marketing, the planning of meals,
table-setting, the care of table- and bed-linen, dusting, sweeping, and
everything else pertaining to a well-kept house, are taught by the
teacher in domestic science who is in charge of the training-kitchen
where the senior girls received their first lessons in cookery. The
young housekeepers have reached the stage of efficiency when they may
prepare a meal for