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Several of the boys in the manual training shop were employed making clothes-poles for their Watertown rooms, while many others were unusually ambitious in earning for themselves through caning and rush bottoming such chairs as our workshop for men could not undertake to finish on time. Some of our part-seeing boys were employed with pleasure and profit to themselves in making men for checkerboards, for which we have had a great sale, and in driving pins into quantities of interlocking dominoes. When our Mr. Mabey, who devised these games, first made an outlay of $55 for press and die to make the checkerboard, it seemed as though it would be a long time before the institution would get its money back, but it long ago did so; the same thing has happened in the case of the die for the dominoes. It has been a satisfaction to make these popular games as well as to demonstrate to our pupils who shared in their manufacture the business proposition of a present outlay for future profit.

Some of the energy of the girls' manual training department was put into making up household linens for Watertown. The teaching of housework to the girls progresses most favorably, so that there has arisen a demand to be assigned to the new Domestic Science Cottage which will accommodate only five girls and their instructor.