The young girl about to take her place behind the ribbon counter, or at a sewing-machine in a garment factory, or as a badly equipped, ignorant, and hopeless stenographer, was the student for whom in due course the school should open its doors.

Where necessary, the parents of the students were to be paid the wages their daughters sacrificed in attending school during the two-year course proposed.

The students were to live in cottages and learn the domestic arts through their own housekeeping, the members of each household performing various duties in rotation.

The school was to continue in session the year round, so that flower--and kitchen--gardening might take rank with dressmaking, cooking, fruit culture, poultry raising, and other branches which Mrs.
Owen proposed to have taught.
"I can't set 'em all up in business, but I want a girl that goes through the school to feel that she won't have to break her back in an overall factory all her life, or dance around some floor-walker with a waxed mustache.

They tell me no American girl who has ever seen a trolley car will go into a kitchen to work--she can't have her beaux going round to the back door.