The Children's Sewing School

BEGINS TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR SATURDAY NOV 7

If Sufficient Funds Are Raised- Strong Plea Made for Assistance

The Children's Sewing School will being the 26th year of its work the first Saturday in November, if sufficient funds can be gotten together. Miss M. S. Brown, the superintendent, makes a strong plea for the money. Miss Brown has been connected with the school since its organization, and has been its superintendent for twenty years, so she knows the needs. She has at present $6 toward a beginning and can count on $10, but says she does not like to start with less than $20. There are a large number of little people to be supplied with cotton, thread and thimbles. Last year there were between 60 and 80 who took regular lessons, and scarcely a Saturday passed when there were less than 75 present. These children are supplied with the material, on which they are taught to do plain sewing and taught in a way that a yard of hem and the over-and-over stitch is no longer wept over as a task, but has been wept over as a denied pleasure. All kinds of undergarments are made, and sheets, pillowcases and aprons, as a rare treat, are made as Christmas presents for the mothers.

Any child who wants to learn to sew can belong, and "those who want to" range from four to fourteen years of age. The cost of running the school, for material and expenses, is about $75 a year. The garments which are made are sold at an appealing reduction from cost, 5 and 10 cents buying a finished product which cost 20 and 30 in the raw material.

Miss Brown says there are many who bestow their good will upon the school, and although she is glad for their good will, it will neither buy a yard of muslin or a pool of thread. And so they want money, and not only money, but teachers- girls who can go Saturdays from 2 to 4 and teach plain sewing. At present there are 13 teachers in the school and 2 assistants, each teacher taking charge of from 6 to 10 children. Miss Helen Marshall is superintendent of the cutting and fitting department and Mrs. M. Seabolt is assistant. There is also a primary department of 25 of which Mrs. Ernest Eberbach is superintendent, and all of these must have material where with to sew.

From the little plea Miss Brown made at the Ladies' Union she received $2, and Mrs. J. E. Beal assisted farther by a gift of a bolt of factory, for all of which the school gives thanks.