KinSource - Tale of the Week - Opening Sewing School

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Minnesota Tales

The St. Paul Daily Globe, October 30, 1895, p. 2

OPENING SEWING SCHOOL.

The One in Connection With the St. Paul Relief Society.

The improvements upon the Relief Society building, including an addition for the day nursery, are now about completed, and on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 10 o'clock, the sewing school will be opened, under the superintendency of Mrs. T. L. Blood. This school, which has been in operation for the past eighteen years under the management of Mrs. H. C. Burbank, is one of the most important departments of the Relief society's work. The girls are taught to sew, to be clean, and are placed in homes as nurse girls and then as domestics. The school meets every Saturday from 10 to 12 o'clock, continuing until the last Saturday in April. At the same time the women's auxillary department for giving out sewing to needy women will begin its work, and the day nursery will also take possession of its new quarters.