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NEBRASKA, O. A. R,
Carpenter's Letter
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f!50 to 4 per month. The servants in theM
bureaus looked like good girls. They were
Well dressed, though not as extravagantly,
as their class In America.
There are many schools here for train
lng servant girls. Berlin has an organisa
tion known as the Housewives' union,
which devotes Itself to such things. - It
gives prises for good servants, rewarding
very girl who stays five years at one place
with a little gold pin and a memorial, and
after ten years a second prize of flGO In
gold. There are many housekeeping schools
for the daughters of the well-to-do and the
rich, and It Is not an uncommon thing for
a nice German girl, whose father Is mod
erately well oS, to go Into the" house "of a
Stranger of the same class to learn house
keeping; the Idea Is that she will be made
to work, which might not be the case at
borne. .
The housekeeping schools are attended by
all classes. I found one at the Krupp woigs
and have vtsltod others here and there
over Germany. The girls are taught ta
cook, bake, wash and Iron. They learn
sewing, mending, knitting and dressmaking,
and also everything la connection with
housekeeping. Nearly every school has its
kitchen garden, the work of which Is done
by pupils, and In a number of schools cows
sure kept and the girls are taught to milk
and to make butter 'and cheese.
I was surprised at the scientific char
acter of the Instruction. Every girt keeps
sut Itemised account of Just what each meal
Costs. She must set down the weight and
yalue of every ingredient as well as the
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tlme required for cooking, so that at the
end she knows just how much she has spent
for each dish and the whole meal as well
as Just bow she has cooked it. With such
an education a girl can fill almost , any
station In life as wife, housekeeper, cook
or general servant. ... . .
The Germans are running wild over tech
nical education. They have about the best
schools of the world, from the universities
down. Within the past few years they
have been establishing a vast number of
technical schools for every branch of
manufacture and Industry. There are
schools for butchers, bakers and candle
stick makers. At Chemnlts, below Lelpslg,
the cotton center of Germany, there are
schools for weavers and designers. In other
MRS. ESTELLE N. EDGCOMB OF YORK,
NEW PRESIDENT OF THE DAUGI?
TERS OF VETERANS,
parts there are schools for doll and toy
makers, and In Berlin a school for black
smiths. There are eleven Industrial art schools
In Berlin, with more than 2.600 pupils. There
are commercial high schools here In Lelp
sig. and also In Cologne, attended by men
who expect to make their living In trade
and by exporting and Importing. At Wil
helmshof In WItxenhausen there Is a colo
nial school where men are educated for
service In the German possessions In Africa,
China and the South Sea Islands.
In all these schools the rates of tuition
are low. and that notwithstanding that the
professors are men of recognized ability
They are of , so much importance that a
federal bureau Is being organized to super
Vise them, and the leading manufacturers
tell me that the German trade of the future
will be largely built upon its technical
education.
The same movement Is going on in the
ether countries of Europe. There are tech
nical schools In France and Switzerland,
Holland and Belgium, and a large num
ber in Austria. That country Is now spend
ln more than $1,000,000 a year In Industrial
education, and It has within a short time
begun to establish commercial schools to
educate its people In commerce and trade.
We should found such schools all over the
United States. Every manufacturing cen
ter should have them, and there should be
commercial colleges on the broadest lines
In all our cities. Here la a noble field for
some would-be Carnegie of the future
FRANK O. CARPENTKB.
