Weekly Chemawa American., August 07, 1908, Page 2, Image 2

1 HE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
tfte fchentawa American
Published Weehly at tKe United
States Indian Training ScKool.
Subscription Price, 25 Cents Year. Clubs of
' Five or Over 20 Cents.
Entered at the Chemawa, Oregon, Post office as sec
, ond-olass mail matter.
PRINTING STAFF
Webster Hudson Benjamin Wilcox
Gordon Hobucket Calvin Darnell
Louis John John McCush
Henry Darnell John Service
James Evans
PRINTING COMPOSITION.
WEBSTER HUDSON -
Composition is oneot the most import
ant branches of the printing art. To be
a compositor one must have a thorough
knowledge of grammar in order that
he may be able to correct, punctuate and
paragraph.
Upon entering a shop as an appren
tice we are set to work at these boxes to
learn where the type belongs. In the
boxes above are what we call "caps" and
those on this side u'soa all caps." In the
boxes above these we have the fraction
al numbers, and on this side, type of
different signs and characters. All of
these a compositor must know.
You will notice that the type has small
nicks on one side;these should always face
upward a? we set the type if not, fhe
letters on the proof will be turned up
side down. For this reason a composit
or must be a sober sort of a person, and
be very careful in regard to placing
words where they belong. Leaving out
words is the most troublesome mistake
we make in setting type, but in course of
time we will be able to avoid this.
This is the way we set type have the
nicks face upward. , The pressman now
has his turn.
THE SEWING DEPARTMENT.
LOUISE MURRAY.
The se'wing department at Chemawa
is a very important branch of the indus
trial training of the school. In addition
to the needs of fitting themselves for fu
ture usefulness the girls of the school do
all the sewing for the girls, from the
darning and mending to the making of
their best uniform dresses. They do the
mending for the boys, and much of the
plain sewing for the small boys, together
with the general school sewing, such as
curtains, towels, table and bed linen.
The very small girls learn, in play,
the use of the needle, thimble, and
scissors, as you see those little girls do
ing now. In this way they learn all the
primary stitches, running, hemming,
back-stitching, overcasting, and gather
ing. This little booklet illustrates some
of this play work, also some samples of
work taken up later. '
They now begin to learn darning and
mending by doing, the greater per cent
of that work being done by the smaller
girls of the institution.
The next step is plain sewing, making
towels, table linen, sheets, pillow cases
and plain garments, using both hand
and machine for this work. Thev prac
tice the lesson which they have learned
in button-hole making on the garments
which they make.
We now come to the plain dress-making.
We are first taught to use patterns
previously cut. In using patterns we
are taught to take measurements cor
rectly, and to adjust the size of the
pattern we are using to the measure-