The teacher should have interested the pupils in the sewing lessons
before the first meeting of the class, and each pupil should be asked to
bring with her the box in which to keep her materials and such other
equipment as is required. If the school is to furnish the equipment, the
teacher should be sure that there is an adequate supply on hand.
It will probably be necessary to have the towels to be used in the
cooking classes hemmed, and the pupils should be interested in doing
this work. If some of them wish to hem towels for use in their own
homes, it may be desirable to allow them to do so. Flour or meal sacks
will answer. It may be well to have each pupil hem a towel for home use,
as well as for school use, in order to impress upon her the desirability
of having hemmed dish-towels for daily use. The towels may be planned
during this lesson, and the pupils may arrange to bring the material
from home, if they are to provide it; but it will be well for the
teacher to have on hand material for one or two towels. Plain paper will
answer for the practice folding of the hem in the first lesson.