While it is believed that all industrial training develops both mind and body, yet special attention is given to the work among the girls, that it shall be in the line of improving their future homes. With this object in view, sewing is by no means an unimportant factor. It holds an important place in the curriculum of this school. Beginning in the third grade it extends through the seventh. Over two hundred pupils have received instruction this year. In the lower classes, felling, hemming, and making of button holes are taught; in the intermediate, cutting and making plain garments; in the higher grade the girls cut and make dresses. Instruction is given in making garments from old clothes and also in mending--two important accomplishments in most homes. Some of the girls are able during the school year, but especially in vacation, to earn enough by their sewing to materially aid themselves in meeting their school expenses. Considerable sewing is done for the institution, such as making bedding and work aprons, hemming towels and table linen. Custom work is attempted to some extent also, and by this means sufficient income has been derived not only to keep the Department stocked with material, but also to supply it with appropriate furniture for preserving the work of the pupils and displaying the finished product. Woodworking and Drafting. George Williamson, Instructor. The best method of Industrial Education is to keep the technical idea preëminently in view, and to teach, first, those principles which will be of real and practical use in an industrial life or profession. It is evident that the great mass of the people must be industrial workers in some form; and to teach them those principles of construction and drawing which govern all the mechanical trades is to give them preparation for a useful and successful life. We want to teach them how to express intelligently by means of drawing their own ideas or the ideas of others, and then to embody them in permanent and useful construction; so that at least they may have the start and impetus toward something better than a life of blind mechanical drudgery.