Next, let the class cut broad strips of paper, and practice doubling them in a _hem_, first narrow and then broad. This also cultivates the eyes and trains the fingers. Then give a lesson to teach the use of the thimble, using a needle without thread, and paper slips to set the needle through. Let the class now have pieces of cheap and thin unbleached cotton, and cut off from it strips two inches wide, being directed to _cut by a thread_, At first a thread may be drawn to guide the eye. Then, these strips are to be cut into pieces five or six inches long, _turned down and pinched_ to prepare for oversewing, and then put together and _basted_ with a needle and thread, the teacher setting the example. This last operation is intended to prepare two strips to be sewed together by _oversewing_. In this operation _colored_ thread should be used in order to make the stitches show more distinctly. Meantime, the pupil is trained to make the stitches _equal in depth_, and also at _equal distances_. The teacher is to be provided with a blank book for each pupil, and on the first page is to be inscribed, _Oversewing_. Beneath this word is to be fastened a specimen of the stitch, as soon as the pupil has attained the degree of excellence and accuracy required. The next lesson is _Hemming_. To prepare for this, let the scholars first cut, out of newspaper, pieces three inches square, and fold a hem on each side till it is even and smooth. Then the unbleached cotton is to be given to be cut and prepared in the same way. Finally, the hemming-stitch is to be taught, and the child be required to practice till the stitches are _equal_ in size and _regular_ in both _slant_ and _distances_. When this is well executed, the specimen is to be fastened to another page of the child’s book, under the word _Hemming_. In the same way, the various stitches used for running up seams, for felling, darning, whipping, buttonholing, stitching, and gathering, should be taught on small pieces of white or unbleached cotton, using colored thread. The books in which are fastened the finished specimens of sewing should be preserved by the teacher and exhibited at the school examinations, as an encouragement to excellence. In England, the ladies of wealth and rank take pains to establish and superintend, among the poor, industrial schools in which are taught other domestic work as well as sewing; and, as the consequence, their servants and dependents are well trained for the duties of their station. It is hoped that American ladies will make similar efforts for the children of the poorer classes, and employ all their influence to promote industrial training in our common schools; and also, to see that instruction in these important matters be given to their own daughters, who may become mistresses and directors of future homes, or who, in the constantly changing fortunes of our land, may need to perform as well as to guide the doing of these homely duties.