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Show FITTING ROOM. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY 41 duction, exchange, distribution, and consumption of wealth are discussed. Three hours per week throughout the year. Bullock's Introduction to the Study of Economics. DOMESTIC ARTS. SEWING.During the first term of the first year, instructions are given in plain hand sewing, basting, back-stitching, hemming, over-casting, felling, gathering, French seam, button-holes, loops, eyelets, patching, darning, etc. Each student is made familiar with the management of the sewing machine in running seams, hemming, tucking, ruffling, quilting, binding, etc. The student makes a set of models covering the full course in hand and machine sewing. Second Term, First Year.Drafting patterns of undergarments; etc.; making skirt, drawers, and corset cover, and fitting and finishing a dress of wash material. DRESSMAKING.Second year; drafting from measurements patterns for waists, sleeves, skirts, etc., practice in cutting, basting and fitting, and general dressmaking. ART NEEDLEWORK.Third year; instruction is given in the various kinds of embroidery, drawn work and modern lace-making. Over eighty girls registered in this class during 1904-05; and out of that number there was not one whose work was not commendable, and many of them showed skill in needle work that, for one year's training, is perhaps unsurpassed. |