through the opportunities provided for the socializing process. The illustrations which follow will show the specific types of knitting that have been carried on in various schools.

2. QUILTING.

In addition to the knitted quilts made through the cooperative work of both boys and girls, the girls of certain schools have added sewing to their list of activities and have utilized both handwork and sewing machines in making hospital quilts from cloth scraps secured through donation and salvage. All the processes of quilting have been performed by the girls and fine finished products have been turned out for use in the Red Cross hospitals. While this work has not been extensively done in the schools, it is significant in that where it has been undertaken problems related to the work of the school have arisen in connection with designing and computation that have afforded excellent opportunities for putting to use the regular work of the class room.

3. WEAVING.

The Jefferson Elementary School in particular has made extensive use of weaving in connection with the manual activities of the upper ungraded rooms. Large

and small looms have been installed in the classrooms and are used by the pupils during their leisure time in weaving rag floor rugs and warp cloth for making bags for the soldiers. These products have been utilized by the Red Cross and the children have had the added interest of producing articles of real use to the Government. A considerable amount of the material used in making the rugs was obtained by the pupils from salvage and waste. This, in itself, has brought to the children a most valuable lesson in thrift. The introduction to this new work has furnished new motives for much of the preliminary work in designing, choice of colors and arithmetical computations essential to successful rug weaving and has stimulated the work of the school in drawing and arithmetic.

A group of children at work sewing and sorting rags and weaving at the looms. The picture also shows a number of finished rugs which have already been promised to the Red Cross for use in buildings at various cantonments.

4. THRIFT GARDENS.

It has afforded many projects and problems for the work in drawing, reading, composition, arithmetic and naturestudy and has proved in most cases to be worthy of its name; for these gardens have provided much valuable food for the families of the thrift pupils, while the surplus has been marketed and converted into cash to swell the funds of the Junior Red Cross. Many of the children have utilized their study of the thrift school garden in the making of home thrift-gardens, which will provide food for the family and money with which to buy thrift stamps during the vacations. The following cuts will show how the pupils have changed the destiny of many waste plots of ground without marring the scenic beauty of the city and how they have contributed to the movement to increase the food supply of the nation.