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Method for Teaching Plain Needle- 

 work in Schools. 



By a Lady. 



It is a constant source of complaint that servants know not how to work well at 

 their needle, and those who visit their poorer neighbours lament the total ignorance 

 in this respect ; many cannot cut out or make even so simple an article as a child's 

 pincloth. Many causes combine to produce this result ; the almost universal plan of 

 allowing children to remain in the same order for needlework as for the reading and 

 other lessons, is one great reason why girls make so little progress. It is a custom 

 also in some schools to employ the girls only in some one branch in which they may 

 happen to succeed best ; a few only doing all the gathering ; some all the stitch- 

 ing ; others all the button-holes ; and so on. The work thus done, of course, brings 

 credit both to the school and to the mistress ; but the child who can hem-stitch a fine 

 cambric pocket-handkerchief at school, cannot, when she returns home in the evening 

 give her parents any practical proof of the value of the instruction she has received, 

 for she can neither make their shirts nor mend their stockings. 



We often hear that a school was at one time noted for its superior needlework, but 

 that succeeding mistresses have not kept it up to the same standard. Such would 

 not be the case if a regular system were observed. It is rarely the custom in schools 

 in this age, to teach the children to fix and prepare their own work, — a short-sighted 

 policy ; for the want of this knowledge not only entails much additional labour on the 

 mistress, but makes the children comparatively useless away from school. 



This useful method is based on steps which are gradual, uell-defined, and clear 

 to the perception. It is calculated to insure the improvement of each individual child, 

 and, while it offers the necessary instruction to the less talented pupil, it enables the 

 more clever one to attain the highest degree of perfection. 



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A Manual of Geography. 



Being a Description of the Natural Feature?, Climate, and Produc- 

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