Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . THE DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT. IN THE HAMPTON LAUNDRY ACADEMIC COURSE attend evening school for eight months. Instructionis given in the best ways of sorting clothes, removingstains, washing, bluing, starching, ironing, folding, anddistributing clothes. Training is given in the use of theordinary laundry utensils found in every home and inthe handling of modern machinery of the most approv-ed kinds. Thirty thousand pieces of teachers and stu-dents clothing pass through the laundry each wee
Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . THE DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT. IN THE HAMPTON LAUNDRY ACADEMIC COURSE attend evening school for eight months. Instructionis given in the best ways of sorting clothes, removingstains, washing, bluing, starching, ironing, folding, anddistributing clothes. Training is given in the use of theordinary laundry utensils found in every home and inthe handling of modern machinery of the most approv-ed kinds. Thirty thousand pieces of teachers and stu-dents clothing pass through the laundry each week,affording opportunities for the best training. Instruc-tion is also given in laundry chemistry, in order thatstudents may understand the principles which under-lie the best laundry practice. The aim is to make thelaundress a thinking and questioning worker. The Hampton Institute Laundry is the trainingschool for this course. Besides the laundry work lessons are given insweeping, dusting, scrubbing, making beds, care offurniture and crockery, and care of dining-room andpantry. Studentsdormitories and dining-room, TeachersHome kit
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