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Mayberry, the dentist; in the office of the Panama Wood-Turning Company; in the post-office; as lofty enthroned cashier for the Hub Store; painting place-cards and making "fancy-work" for the Art Needlework Exchange. The job behind the counter in the Hub Store was the only one offered her.
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.
The tools were fixed on frames driven by machinery, some moving in a rotary direction round an upright shaft, some with the shaft horizontal like an ordinary wood-turning lathe, while in others the tools were fixed on frames sliding in stationary grooves. A wood-planing machine was constructed on the principle of this invention at Woolwich Arsenal, where it still continues in efficient use.
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.
Building wheels; general repairs on buggies and wagons continued; practise-work on parts of buggies, phaetons, farm- and business-wagons; shop economics, estimates, bills of material; industrial classes and Mechanical Drawing during the year. The student in wheelwrighting receives instruction in wood-turning; the course is the same as that given to students in carpentry.
He kept a large room with models of new inventions, which were a great delight to him and to his son. He was fond of wood-turning, and Thélin and he would often make pretty rustic chairs for the park at Saint-Cloud. For some years before his overthrow he was growing very feeble, and always carried a cane surmounted with a gold eagle.
I also saw several kinds of work, such as weaving, wood-turning and blacksmithing, being carried on. The lathes used for turning wood are very simple, and are operated by a bow held in the workman's right hand, while the chisel is held in his left hand and steadied by the toes on one or the other of his feet. It is a rather slow process, but they can turn out good work.
A reasonable proficiency in manual arts will some day be the heritage of all educated people. Mr. Eliot, in his "Survey of the Needs of Education," speaks appreciatingly of his father's having caused him to learn carpentry and wood-turning.
There was a veritable song of labor which arose from this shop, for it was filled with planes, lathes and wood-turning instruments of various kinds, to say nothing of a great group of carpenters who could make desks, chairs, tables, in short, office furniture of various kinds, and who kept the company's needs of these fittings for its depots and offices well supplied.
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