Life and light for woman . And so, inmost of the missionschools where any in-dustrial work is found,a carpentry branch isin operation. Thecolleges at Marsovanand Harpoot have partially endowed shops, which are very shop connected with the orphanages in Oorfa is one of the best equipped,and this is the oldest and best-developed industry in the Sivas NormalSchool. One of the strongest features of the industrial work at Van is itscarpenter shop. A great deal of building material, windows and doors,flooring boards and mouldings, and all kinds of furnituie besides a generalline of re
Life and light for woman . And so, inmost of the missionschools where any in-dustrial work is found,a carpentry branch isin operation. Thecolleges at Marsovanand Harpoot have partially endowed shops, which are very shop connected with the orphanages in Oorfa is one of the best equipped,and this is the oldest and best-developed industry in the Sivas NormalSchool. One of the strongest features of the industrial work at Van is itscarpenter shop. A great deal of building material, windows and doors,flooring boards and mouldings, and all kinds of furnituie besides a generalline of repairing is turned out of the mission carpenter shop in Turkey. The most common kind of industrial work for girls is that to which girlsare universally subjected the world around, general housework, a knowledgeof which is essential to them in after life. In all the girls schools andorphanages, at least in the interior, the girls do most of their own , cleaning and cooking, and even where a regular cook is em-. ORPHANS REELING THREAD AND KNITTING 250 Life and Light \_June ployed she combines that office with the work of Professor of the CulinaryDepartment. And some of the sweet girl graduates of our Turkey highschools are wortliy candidates for the masters degree in this occupation which fits in well with housework is some form of loom orneedlework, which can be carried on in the home and in the spare the women largely supply their own houses with carpets, towels andfancy work, and often piece out the meager income of the family in this easiest and simplest kind of work is weaving a plain woolen cloth forsuiting, something like the homespun of colonial days. This, with a vari-ation in the size of the thread and the introduction of colors, develops intogirdles, toweling, sofa covers and a great variety of other articles. Theprocesses of preparing the wool, dyeing, making 3arn, reeling, etc., arepart of the art of rug-making which a g
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