TO TEACHMIS 
 
 
material, and teachers have sometimes organized an exchange of 
laces, fabrics and costume prints for teaching purposes. 
    Reference Library.,-The teacher should herself have a pro- 
 fessional library of one or more books, treating respectively of 
 textiles, of fabrics, of the design and construction of clothing, and 
 of the history of costume, the economic and social aspects of cloth- 
 ing, etc. She should encourage her school to develop a reference 
 library for students' use. Other volumes in the series of which this 
 book is one, will be found useful. Books can usually be secured from 
 publishers on examination and this will help in judgment. In- 
 dividual students besides owning the text-book, should be encour- 
 aged to secure additional material; in several States, the State Col- 
 lege of Agriculture prints one or more bulletins on dress for free 
 circulation and the office of Home Economics of the U. S. Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture will shortly publish bulletins on textiles; in 
 some cases students can develop their own permanent collection of 
 fabric samples. 
    Score Cards.-Some teachers are finding score cards a useful 
method in instruction. A score card is a schedule listing the dif- 
ferent aspects of some object or situation, with proportionate 
numbers assigned to each item on the list on a scale of 100, each 
item being given a larger or smaller, number in accordance with its 
relative importance. The score card is then used in judging differ- 
ent examples of the particular object; each object in being scored is 
examined in regard to the characteristics listed and for each char- 
acteristic is given a more or less perfect score, according to its per- 
fection in that particular regard; the total score is the sum of the 
scores for the various characteristics. The following are among 
score cards which have been suggested for judging clothing: 
                      Sewing, Patching, Darning I 
                                          Possible  Points   Actual 
                                          score    deficient score 
Suitability of the article to the purpose........  25 
Beauty and quality of the design ............ 10 
Harmony of color and materials ............. 15 
Symmetry and accuracy in cutting ........... 20 
Perfection of stitches .......................  15 
Neatness of finish .......................... 
    TOTAL ................................ 100 
    1Missouyi State Board of Agriculture Bulletin XI, No. 11, v. 21. For
other suggestions, 
see U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations Bulletin 255.

 
 
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