Identifier: quaintcornersinp00stoc (find matches)
Title: Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946 Turner, Eliza Sproat, Mrs., 1826-1903 Leach, Frank Willing, 1855-1943 Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918
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Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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\usi l)e studied hyintellectual methods. Cooking is more important eventhan sewing. Why should it not be taught in everypublic school V The idea of industrial education can no longer hesmiled down as visi(uu\ry. J.ondoii spends $oOO,(H)0 onit annually, and there is scarcely a town or city inEurope that has not its industrial school. The St.Tetersburg Institute of Technology displayed at ourCentennial Exposition a set of models, showing everystage of manipulation in iron and wood, fn^ni the crudematerial to the manufactured article. Philadelphiansnoticed these, and thought them very pretty; Bost(mi-ans noticed, pondered, went home and erected Iniildings,and now teach, beside the higher princii)les. in theirSchool of Technology the elementary l)ranches of mostof (be trades, as moulding, turning, weaving, carpenter-ing, smithery and the rest. The students dividi theirtime between tluse and their books. Is there any-thing in IMiiladeli)hiaV climate to prevent her doing the same r ^-=^ - *
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FIREPLACE I N THE MUSEUM-OLD GERMANTOWN ACADEMY. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 271 III. J/ore school houses. It is rather startling tothose who believe that free institutions depend for theirlife upon free education ta tind that while the cityspopulation increases at the rule of aljout 25,000 annu-ally, the appropriation for school buildings was lastincreased at the rate of acconuiiodation for 448. Butall this is to be changed, as Councils have given at onesweep $300,000 for the erection of new and the repair ofold Ijuildings. This is inspiring, and the only suggestionwe presume to make is that there may be, in everyclass-room of every new building, efficient provision forthe escape of foul and the entrance of fresh air. Thisis, of all architectural problems, perhaps the most difti-cult; but its importance is so great that if good venti-lation is to be found anywhere in the world it should befound here. We had better starve a childs brain thantaint its blood. That there is need of such a sugges-tio

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