MILLINERY AS A TRADE FOR WOMEN 
 
 
in Boston than in Philadelphia. Fifty Boston shops and 29 
Philadelphia shops were visited in which no learners were em- 
ployed. But girls who enter the trade must be trained and the 
opportunity for training afforded by the Boston Trade School 
for Girls probably constitutes the reason for the large number 
of Boston employers who refused apprentices. No such sub- 
stitute has been offered in Philadelphia, so that milliners must 
continue to train their own workers. 
TABLE 50, SHOWING WAYS IN WHICH BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA 
       WORKERS LEARNED MILLINERY. BASED ON REPORTS 
                        FROM WORKERS.' 
 
                           WoRKERS LEARnING THU TRADE AS SPEzov 
      Methtod ot Le~~ 
          the Tfaenig         IN BOSTON        IN PHILAMELPHIA 
 
                          Number {  Per Cent. Number    Per Cent. 
Apprenticeship  . . .        89      58.6       113      93.4 
Trade School. . . .          42      27.6       -        - 
'Ticked it up"  . . .        10       6.6        3        2.5 
Other ways, colleges,etc.    11       7.2        5        4.1 
Total  ......               152      100.0      121     100.0 
  1 Number not reporting in Boston, 9. 
  2The apprenticeship statistics for Boston are based on experience of 
workers and 21 women who were in business for themselves. 
  The majority of workers in both cities obtained their training 
as apprentices as shown in Table 50. In Boston over 58 per 
cent. (89) of the 152 workers reporting, in Philadelphia 93 
per cent. (113) of the 121 workers visited learned the trade as 
apprentices. In Boston about 27 per cent. (42) of the total 
number reporting received their trade education at the Boston 
Trade School for Girls, about 7 per cent. (11) learned in other 
ways, and over 6 per cent. (10) stated that they "just knew 
how." Over 2 per cent. (3) of the Philadelphia workers 
claimed that they "picked it up" and 4 per cent. (5) learned in

various other ways. In Boston, of the 11 workers learning 
millinery otherwise than as apprentices or at the Trade School, 
2 learned the trade in public schools in Russia, 1 in an industrial 
school in Germany, 1 at a branch of the Young Women's Chris- 
tian Association, 4 in private classes conducted by milliners, 1 
 
 
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