7. Suitability of materials, needles, and threads to each other, and of the style of sewing to the garments which the children should wear. 8. Direction of attention to the fact that hands and eyes which have been sensibly trained to execute "plain work" will acquire "fancy work" quite readily later on if leisure can be found. 9. New methods and stitches to be learned on waste material. 10. Importance of practice in mending at school and at home. 11. Importance of cutting-out and pattern-making. 12. Garments made to be worn, not kept at school. 13. Elaborate making-up of paper garments to be discouraged. 14. Rough sketches to train the eye to recognise the value to each other of different parts of a pattern. 15. Importance of recognition of difference between a well-cut and an ill-cut garment. 16. Calculation of kind, quantity, and cost of material to be worked out in an arithmetic lesson. 17. Note-books and records to be kept. 18. Fixing to be done by actual maker of garment--not a joint production. 19. Use of sewing machine permitted for long seams and hems. 20. No time to be wasted while waiting for teacher's help. Independent work to be encouraged. Knitting and other suitable work to be at hand. This excellent and sensible paper of suggestions means an offer of freedom on the part of the Board; it remains, therefore, but to accept and adopt its conditions. A practical difficulty, however, at once arises from the fact that, after a long period of bondage to many "Regulations," it is difficult for the teaching profession in general to realise that independent judgment is now expected of them, indeed is required, though this is a phase temporary and evanescent, which will quickly adjust itself.