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Voice: I would like to ask if you think it quite essential that girls should be 

 taught liand work before they sew on the machine? 



Mrs. Haner: I feel that hand work lays the foundation for the higher art of sew- 

 ing. It is necessary to do the thing by hand to get the best in mind. While there 

 are girls who can sew well on the machine who know nothing about hand work, I feel 

 it is not the best way for them to do. 



Voice: Do the girls at the College work entirely on ladies' garments, or do they do 

 other sewing as well ? 



Mrs. Haner: The only time we have to give to garment making is making them for 

 themselves, because they take their own measures, cut their own patterns, etc. 



Voice: Do you lay much stress on making buttonholes and sewing on buttons prop- 

 erly ? 



Mrs. Haner: Yes; the most time given to any one sampler is to the buttonhole 

 sampler. There is six hours, for instance, given to the sampler on buttonholes. 



Miss Keller: I would like to say that one of our girls came to me last year and 

 said, "It is impossible to get out of making buttonholes under Mrs. Haner." So you 

 can see there is much attention given to this feature. 



SCHOOL HYGIENE. 



DR. ELIZA MOSHER, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. 



At the annual meeting of the Federation of Women's Clubs, held at 

 Jackson, Mich., November 1st, 2d and 3d, 1899, a report was read, which 

 was prepared by a joint committee from this Federation and the Collegi- 

 ate Alumnie Association. Among other things the committee recom- 

 mended that "A more comprehensive and practical knowledge of school 

 hygiene be included in the requii-ements for a teacher's diploma." 



In view of this recommendation, and because the subject of school 

 hygiene seems to be more or less vague in the minds of both educators 

 and parents, the chairman of that committee (Dr. Eliza M. Mosher) pre- 

 pared an outline of the subject of school hygiene, which i1 is hoped will 

 serve as a starting point at least for a widespread consideration of this 

 subject. This outline was printed in the February number of the "Inter- 

 change," the official publication of the Michigan Federation of Women's 

 Clubs. 



No one can question the importance of such knowledge on the part 

 of teachers, and yet without the intelligent co-operation of pareats 

 equally well informed along these lines, they can do comparatively little 

 with it in the schools. Such knowledge is essential to parents, first, that 

 they may hygienically care for and train children of school age in the 

 home, and, second, that they may have a clear and practical conception 

 of the conditions which should surround their children when in school,, 

 as well as of the care which should be given them by the instructors 

 to whom they intrust them during the most important developmental 

 period of life. 



Parents have ever felt solicitude upon these subjects, but this solic- 

 itude, it must be confessed, is often without value because of a lack of 

 knowledge of the remedy for the ills they perceived and deplored. Again, 

 knowledge of school hygiene must become universal to be of great util- 

 ity. This age is one pre-eminently of co-operation. The individual who 

 stands alone is practically a cypher. An army of individuals moving in 

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