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in the expenditure of money, and a knowledge of 
simple business transactions." There is a business 
course, a department of music, one of domestic art 
where is taught dressmaking, millinery, and lace- 
making, and a department of domestic science where 
the subjects taught are housework, cookery, laun- 
dry, and mending. In the normal department, "it 
is the intention to show young teachers how manual 
training, sand tables, dramatization, phonics, and so 
forth, can be introduced and profitably used even 
where there is no equipment." Thus young people 
are prepared to go home to the little mountain 
schools and there spread abroad the information 
and the ideals they have themselves received, as 
well as to go, if they are so inclined, into the world of 
action now opening below and in the mountains, and 
whose demands for helpers in all departments is in 
excess of a competent supply. Brevard Institute is 
but one among a number of industrial schools that 
are doing their part, against all sorts of difficulties, 
to help on the transformation that is so rapidly 
taking place in the Southern mountains. 
Another form of practical education is well illus- 
trated in the Allenstand Cottage Industries, which is 
settlement work carried on in remote, and what one 
might call side-tracked, districts. This work began, 
with a day school as a nucleus, in a cove in the 
mountains in the northwestern part of Buncombe 
County, long before the present wave of prosperity 
had drawn near to the mountains. Here the difficult 
question of how to bring to the people material help 
