The Archive · 1929

What the Children are Taught

There is one building for the girls with workrooms and kitchen both on the first floor and dormitor~ jes on the second. Each girl, for summer use, is provided with a board bed, a! mat on top of it and Jo thin quilt. The girls are taught to make exquisite lace and embroidery tea-sets, bed spreads, doiljes, tablecloths te. They spend the morning at work and the after noon at their books.

The boys are housed in the farm." The rooms where cotton Jcloth of various colours, surgical [gauze and coolie cloth are made, are on the ground floor of their building. Their dormitory, which is a large room with a clean painted. floor, covered with mats and their quilts, is well lighted and ventilated. Each' boy is provided with a pad-Tocked box in which to keep his. persona} possessions.

Every article of clothing worn by the children is made in the stitution, cloth for garments and [shoes, the garments are made up joy women attendants as also are the stockings, shoe tops and soles. The gate-keeper sews the soles and Jattaches them to the shoes.

Part of the vegetables and wheat Jare raised on the farm. Rice is [Purchased locally.

The -cotton cloth made by the boys. is made. from -cotton' thread previously: dyed by fadeless German Jdyes. The thinner materials are suitable for house dresses and shirts, also in great favour for uniforms for nurses in hospitals. The wearing quality of this cloth excellent: and its. fadeless "quality makes it most desirable.

'The health of the 70 children in the institution is. generally. good. If there is any illness,' the doctor from the Lottie Mason Quine Hospital, one mile across the hills consulted and patient is sent to live in the hospital until cured.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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