for four small stoves. With these four small stoves and an ordinary range in a small room, she often taught classes of -1-5^t- !-5-ftr- r i--^ STORE ROOM / PARLOR OR BED ROOM OR DINING ROOM ACCORDING TO THE NECESSITIES OF THE LESSONS GAS STOVE I FOR WASH I |o o o ol ■^°"-^« I TUBS UPON A BENCH - I IRONING TABLE LAUNDRY AND KITCHEN SHELF FOR STOVES KITCHEN TABLE "-^ \ j-^ 13-TI; — • - ->k — ^1 5-ftT— ■30 ft. — .j Diagram V twenty-five. Nevertheless, a stove for each student is the ideal toward which all should strive. Diagram VI. — Stove Shelf TO TURN A SCHOOLROOM INTO A WORKSHOP 407 Tf this slielf is made to turn down, the strip of zinc should be made to fit the shelf with turned edges and places for screws, so that it can be removed when desirable ; or but- tons can be screwed to the table so that they can be turned to hold the strip in place. Small tin ovens can be bought that fit these stoves, and in which very good work can be done. A class of fifteen or twenty could be easily managed with three or four small stoves and a range. It might be better to have oil stoves, as the pipes in large buildings are often too small to allow enough gas to pass through them to fully supply so many burners through sub- pipes. With several such small stoves, combined with the range and a gas stove large enough to heat a medium sized round wash-boiler, one fair sized room could be used for both the laundry and kitchen. This arrangement would give a little more room, save the expense of a partition, and be a little easier for the teacher. If the room is too small to divide as described, it could be divided into two or three compartments, keeping one for the kitchen and laundry during the whole year, and using the other at intervals for bedroom, parlor, and dining room. It could be used during the first part of the term as a bed- room, next as a parlor, and during the last part of the term, when the girls know more about cooking, as a dining room. It would of course be necessary to change some of the furniture each time. In this case a storeroom would be needed. It might be well to consider this when getting the furniture, so that some of it could be used for all three rooms. NATURE STUDY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS By LUCY LANGDON WILLIAMS WILSON, Ph.D. H Manual for Ccacbcrs Illustrated. Cloth. i6mo. Price 90 cents, net H fnrst IVaturC Reader, for second year work Illustrated. Cloth. i6mo. Price 35 cents, net H Second feature Reader, for third year and fourth year work Illustrated. Cloth. i6mo. Price 35 cents, net Julia Richman Principal Public School yj. New York City Education New England Journal of Education "We have used Mrs. Wilson's 'Nature Study in Elementary Schools ' since June, and my teachers are unanimous in their verdict that it is the best guide to their nature work that has come to our notice. It is hard to select a special merit in a work so full of good things, but its suggestions and its correlated language work have been of the greatest value. No teacher should be without a copy."

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for four small stoves. With these four small stoves and an ordinary range in a small room, she often taught classes of -1-5^t- !-5-ftr- r i--^ STORE ROOM / OR OR ACCORDING TO THE NECESSITIES OF THE LESSONS GAS STOVE I FOR WASH I |o o o ol ■^°"-^« I TUBS UPON A BENCH - I IRONING TABLE LAUNDRY AND KITCHEN SHELF FOR STOVES KITCHEN TABLE "-^ \ j-^ 13-TI; — • - ->k — ^1 5-ftT— ■30 ft. — .j Diagram V twenty-five. Nevertheless, a stove for each student is the ideal toward which all should strive. Diagram VI. — Stove Shelf If this shelf is made to turn down, the strip of zinc should be made to fit the shelf with turned edges and places for screws, so that it can be removed when desirable ; or buttons can be screwed to the table so that they can be turned to hold the strip in place. Small tin ovens can be bought that fit these stoves, and in which very good work can be done. A class of fifteen or twenty could be easily managed with three or four small stoves and a range. It might be better to have oil stoves, as the pipes in large buildings are often too small to allow enough gas to pass through them to fully supply so many burners through subpipes. With several such small stoves, combined with the range and a gas stove large enough to heat a medium sized round wash-boiler, one fair sized room could be used for both the laundry and kitchen. This arrangement would give a little more room, save the expense of a partition, and be a little easier for the teacher. If the room is too small to divide as described, it could be divided into two or three compartments, keeping one for the kitchen and laundry during the whole year, and using the other at intervals for bedroom, parlor, and dining room. It could be used during the first part of the term as a bedroom, next as a parlor, and during the last part of the term, when the girls know more about cooking, as a dining room. It would of course be necessary to change some of the furniture each time. In this case a storeroom would be needed. It might be well to consider this when getting the furniture, so that some of it could be used for all three rooms. NATURE STUDY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS By LUCY LANGDON WILLIAMS WILSON, Ph.D. H Manual for Ccacbcrs Illustrated. Cloth. i6mo. Price 90 cents, net H fnrst IVaturC Reader, for second year work Illustrated. Cloth. i6mo. Price 35 cents, net H Second feature Reader, for third year and fourth year work Illustrated. Cloth. i6mo. Price 35 cents, net Julia Richman Principal Public School yj. New York City Education New England Journal of Education "We have used Mrs. Wilson's 'Nature Study in Elementary Schools ' since June, and my teachers are unanimous in their verdict that it is the best guide to their nature work that has come to our notice. It is hard to select a special merit in a work so full of good things, but its suggestions and its correlated language work have been of the greatest value. No teacher should be without a copy."

Handbook of domestic science and household arts for use in elementary schools