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In this difficulty it was that Euphemia decided, I fancy, by the possession of certain really very becoming aprons took up this business of clay-modelling. Then, moistening the clay until it acquires sufficient plasticity, and incidentally splashing your cuffs and coat-sleeves with an agreeably light tinted mud, you set to work.
At any rate, by the time he was twelve years old, Horatio Greenough had produced some portrait busts in chalk, and, after having tried unsuccessfully to learn clay-modelling from directions in an old encyclopedia, took some lessons from an artist who chanced to be in Boston, and from a maker of tombstones, got a little insight into the method of carving marble.
In 1899 it was discontinued on account of the small appropriation that was made for the maintenance of the institution, making it necessary to curtail expenses. Before the abolition of Sloyd the following course was employed for defectives: Mechanical drawing, Sloyd, athletics, and calisthenics, clay-modelling, and mental arithmetic. Card-board construction takes the place of clay-modelling.
There were turning-lathes, carpenters' outfits, clay-modelling tools, spinning-wheels, weaving-frames, treadmills, bass drums, enlarged-crayon-portrait apparatuses, blacksmith forges, and everything, seemingly, that could interest the paying lunatic guests of a first-rate sanitarium.
It is quite unnecessary to give more direct details as to the kind of work suitable and the method of doing it; more than enough books of help have been published on every kind of material, and it might perhaps be well if we made less use of such terms as "clay-modelling," "cardboard-work," "raffia," and took handwork more in the sense of constructive or expressive work, letting the children select one or several media for their purpose; they ought to have access to a variety of material; and except when they waste, they should use it freely.
Athletics and calisthenics, free-hand drawing from solids and familiar objects, elementary Sloyd, clay-modelling, mental arithmetic, and sentence building. Sloyd, free-hand drawing, wood-carving, mental arithmetic, and calisthenics. Sloyd, free-hand drawing, wood-turning, athletics and mental arithmetic. =The Trades' School.= Of all crimes, about 95 per cent. are committed against property.
Wood-turning instead of card-board construction. Athletics and calisthenics, geometric construction involving the intersection of solids, etc., wood-turning, pattern making, mechanical drawing and Sloyd. Athletics and calisthenics, wood-carving, clay-modelling, mechanical drawing and Sloyd. Athletics and calisthenics, chipping and filing, moulding, mechanical drawing and Sloyd.
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