teachers of the girls. So at three o'clock one day a company of eighteen
sat down to a dinner that was all cooked and served by these girls. The
white, puffy biscuits, well-cooked meat and vegetables, and the quiet
lady-like serving, all testified to the excellence of the instruction
received. Prouder mothers I never saw than those who then partook of
their daughter's cookery. I was told that every Saturday it had been the
custom for the girls at home to repeat in their own kitchens the work of
the day previous, as it had been done under their teacher's
instructions.

We hope next year with our boarding pupils to do more than we could with
only day pupils. Our sewing classes are this week finishing their work
for the year. There has been sewing in five rooms. The primaries have
pieced blocks for outsides for two quilts, over-hand work. The next
grade has put together four outsides (running). The upper classes have
made fifty pillow-cases, twelve sheets, forty aprons, hemstitched three
tray cloths, outlined one tidy and made three night-dresses. Darning,
button-hole making and hem-stitching were taught in one class. The girls
in another room have tied six comfortables. The boys in the carpenter
shop are doing excellent work, and they like it very much. One class of
five or six come every morning at seven o'clock, and they do this to get
more instruction. Most of this class are country boys who cannot stay at
school all of the year. In one of the primary rooms, we have the
kitchen-garden material. There, with the twenty-four sets of toy dishes,
the little ones are taught how to set and clear off table, and a great
many useful things in reference to table manners and customs.

Our general school work goes on like clock-work. The children and young
people are growing in their power of concentration and self-control, and
we feel greatly encouraged, as we look into the future for them, to hope