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 sketching hats at exhibitions or openings. Students who are good workers and desire positions after completing this course are recommended to wholesale and retail houses in the city.

"Course of Study—Designing, drafting and making of buckram and wire frames. Study of form, color and textiles. Making plain covered hats with different finishing for brims. Making bows. Covering wire frames with straw braids and other materials. Making children's hats. Designing, making and trimming of all styles of hats, according to the season. Practice in pencil sketching of bows and simple hats. Time and memory sketches. The study of textiles as related to different types.

"Tuition fee—$25 for three months."

This little announcement, more clearly than any argument I might prepare, demonstrates the impossibility of cramming a millinery apprenticeship into three months of school work. And in justice to these recognized trade schools, it must be said that they do not deceive pupils by promising high-salaried positions, nor do they pretend to save a pupil the irksome months as an apprentice. When a girl talks with the head of such a training-school, she soon learns that an abbreviated course of this sort, in connection with other branches of the domestic or household arts, aims to develop the all-round,