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Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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on of interesting objects, scenes and pictures.Description and narration of events in current history. To the girls in grades IV and V is given a two years Cooking course in cooking and care of the kitchen, whichaims to find its practical application in the childrenshomes. It is also intended to develop habits or accuracy, neatness,,and wholesome responsibility. The work comprehends the cooking of meats, vegetables, cere-als, eggs, warmed-over dishes, tea, coffee, raised bread and hotbreads. Instruction is also given in table laying and waiting, andin table manners. The method is that of individual work, and the pupils im-provise and use such utensils as they can hope to have in their ownhomes. The instruction given in sewing aims :—to teach theSewing child how to use his hands and fingers intelligentlyand skillfully in plying the needle; to train the eyeto quick and accurate perception ; to train the child to correct ex-pression by requiring oral description of work done ; to train
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A Whittier Sewing Class 60 CATALOGUE O F the will, taste and judgment, so that neatness, perseverance, pa-tience, promptness, thoroughness and economy of material becomesecond nature. Boys, as well as girls, sew in the lower classes. In the lower grades, coarse materials are used, such as card-board, burlap, raffia, worsted in the spool-knitting and weaving,and cord in the string work. The lessons are arranged progressively, beginning with the fol-lowing:—Correct position of the body, finger drills, use of needle,thimble and scissors. In the advanced grades are taught basting,running, overcasting, stitching on muslin, overhanding, hemming,gathering, felling, patching, stocking and cashmere darning, but-ton-hole making, and the sewing on of buttons, hooks and eyes, andtapes. The children make small pillow cases, sheets, aprons and dress-skirts, and draft and make small undergarments. In the highest grades shirt-waists are made by allowing thechildren to use the sewing machine and enc

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