2. Every article should be evaluated in terms of its relation to use and surroundings and chosen for a specific place. 3. Every article should meet the fundamental requirements of good design. 4. Decoration, if any is used, should make a lasting contribution rather than a temporary appeal. 5. All problems should require only that technique which can be achieved successfully by the pupils. FIELD TRIPS Field trips in some form have been used to quite an extent in the teaching of many subjects and have been undertaken for a variety of reasons. In the teaching of art the purpose may be fourfold: 1. To stimulate interest in beauty. 2. To provide contact with materials and articles as they are to be found in life. 3. To extend information. 4. To provide additional opportunity for exercising judgment. Unless the trips to be made by the class are planned carefully they may become merely freedom from regular school routine. If the group has an opportunity to help plan the trip, including the route to be taken, the points of interest to be looked for and reported upon at the next regular meeting of the class, the conduct to be maintained on the trip, and the courtesy due the homemaker or the merchant or the business man who is cooperating with the class visit, there is bound to be greater interest and concentration upon the trip with more beneficial results. Trips taken very early in the unit or course can do little more than serve as a means of stimulating interest in the new phase of work. Trips taken later may be used to verify conclusions and develop judgment in making selections as well as to create broader interests. One class in a study of clothing selection made several trips to the local stores. The first one was preceded by a study of surface pattern in dress fabrics from the standpoint of the effect of design and color upon the appearance of the wearer. The trip to the local stores was made to determine which of the wash dresses exhibited in three store windows best met the standards which the class had set up for such a dress. The standards were as follows: 1. The style or design of the dress should be suited to the kind of fabric and the surface pattern of it. 2. The trimming should be in harmony with the construction lines and the color of the dress. 3. The surface pattern of the material should be one of which the wearer and her friends would not soon tire. In this particular case, since the class was small and the trip included only window shopping, some discussion was carried on in the group as they stood outside of the display windows.