Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-08-26
PRACIIcALISsTRUCrION 40 A MEANS
OF SOCIAL AMELlORAflON.

-IDduotrlaI SCnooIe-AtUoerg0RteU CuIs
tlre-1rainins Schssls In kursPe-Cs-
operative hsuseksePing, &C.
q EDITOR SrAR.-Soms days ago THD EVEN
ING STAR had q very funny article on the
workingwomen's movement. "Attempt TO
hold q rneetng-slim attendance-women's
rights women on hand-Dr. Mary +. Walker,
Mrs. DIR. lockwood, OF al.-the wor king women
of Washingtsn have failed TO put In an sppear-
ance." Such articles may amuse many read
ers for moment, Just like IRE crackers amuse
little boys, but the ladies who are thus ridi-
culed are the last who viii profit anything
by them. II would perhaps be better for them
IL they were less ambitious; IL they could be
more restful; II they, for instance, ould profit
By the example OF their sister, Miss Clara Bar
ton, who nobly devoted herself during the war
to nurslng our woanded soldiers, aud VINO,
after the war, commenced q successful search
for the last resting place Of maay an unfortu-
nate victim Of the AndersonvnIsh Is hsrror, with.
out making any fuss about It. .-
My intention in this article Is TO call the at
tention Of the public TO the kindergarten cui.
tur, cooperative industrial schools and co..
operative housekeeping. and especially ID sug.
gest that the female polItico- -philantnropists 10
Washington, New York ana other places
would do well to consider the ways how their
sisters, not only In the Old World, but also IN
Boston, Cambridge and other places are con-
tending for their rights, where they propose to
improve the moral, social and intellectual con-
dition OF their whole sex, and being thus ele-
waited, TO claim simply what they are legiti-
mately entitled to by nature and their own eff.
forts. The prevailing form Of female efforts
TO more commanding and responsible posi-.
tion Is by associations. There are seventeen
such societies in all Germany, w hose Objects
,norp ,nnougn Nasy.ng % win ue locality, embrace a
ment OF technical and artistic talents, mate
rial provision for the destitute, an6 the in
suuc,ion OF young women in the higher
schools, in domestic and other forms Of in
dustry.
repeat, the female politco-phiIanthropists
OF Washington and other places would do well
70 consider the ways, not only in the Old World,
but also of some Of their sisters in Boston ana
Cambridge, how they are contending for their
rights: There is, in the first place, Miss Eliza
beth r. Peabody, who has devoted herself 90
the kindergarten culture, who mas been in Eu-
rope and made special study of the kInder-
Garten established in Hamburg, Berlin and
Dresden by Froebel himself and bis most dis
tlnguished scholars. There is Mrs. Horace
Mann, Mrs. Pierce, and other ladies, who have
recently established cooperative housekeeping
IN Cambridge, which seems to have been con-
sldered in a perfectly practical, and, in every
way, sensible manner Tnere is the Industrial
Institute for Women aud Girls, recently estab-
IN w SaT NO
One word about the lady who started this
school.
Two years ago. lady physician, dependent
on her profession for support. undertook 10
teach a class of adult unskilled working
wome n, TO find them better means OF earning
a livelihood than picking up rags and other
refuse In the streets or working IN other occu.
pations eq ually as low and degrading. With
these, unalded. and entirely at her own ex-
pense, she labored, for nearly year, with
out being able TO reform them so to change
their love OF low degrading mploy ment, which
had been instilled into them when young Dis
appointed, but not discouraged, she saw her
mistake in trying 10 make vigorous plants
from old fossils, and she abanoo oned the class
and set about forming a private school of
young girls, from four TO ten years OF age
ineIe. me1s sne maze hsr grand discovery that the
forlorn, was once taught to sew two pieces of
rloton together, as to form pretty bow, or
1held rent In her garment, from that nome "a I
the whole ambition OF the young mind, so sen
sitlye and der in girls. would change Filth
mess IN every form would vanish with most
surprising swiftness, and love OF the peautt-
iuI In all that adorns womanhood; would range
Itse III throughout a class In hopeful Assurance
she introduced, also, beyond the art of mend =.
ing, cutting, and making undergarnAents. the
use OF the sewing machine, making worsted
Wcrk, &C.; also the arts Of printing and tele.
graphing, occupations eminently fitting for
women ana IN the short space of two years,
from ner school OF seventy pupils some twen-
y-nve nave graduated, and are now earning
IRON nine TO twelve dollars per week The
name OF THIS lady is Dr. L. 5. Batchelder. Iftime
aho space would permit 1 could give very1n.
terestlng and instructive accounts from similar
institutes in Germany. There Is the associa-
uon IN Bremen which has provided instruction
for Tour hundred girls, and expended a large
amount OF gratuities to poor women. Similar
Institutes are in many otner cities ali over Ger
many. Foremost is the school for training fe
Tsis rsis schooI van@, . IN g Go,enSe.g in Sweden.
getic lady, with charity co nal to her countrv
women, Jenny Lind and Frederika Bremer
Glfis OF good moral character, who wish to go
out to service, are received, and under the d.
Iecuon OF competent matron are made sdepts
In the sublime mysteries Of the kitchen and
laundry: The establishment takes IN washing
and baking and cooking for private families,
hotels and restaurants, and the money thus
earned goes far towards paying the current
expenses. The girls are taught to put their
household. By turns they wait upon table,
and the matron Is at the head to give instruc.
ton, that they may become expert in serving
the dinner as well as in cooking, and those
VINO sit at the table may also learn to be decent
in eating it. These young women are In con-
slant demand by families, who are ready 10
pay them higher wages, because they are
graduates of training school, where they
have learned the theory and practice of house
hold labor. The admission to this training
house is regarded as great privilege. Ii is
even secured as reward for proficiency in the
free schools, so that young woman who has
distin guished herself for good conduct in
school, is entitled to still furrher education in
this house as reward of merit.
should not forget to mention, also, the self
supporting Cooperative Industrial School for
boys and girls, founded in ReutlIngen, In South
Germany, by Herr Won Werner, the SON Of the
Finance Minister. The founder was a student
OF the University OF Tubingen, and at the time
poor vicar. The Institution was opened for
poor and destitute children, in order to show
the possibility OF using chIldren's work as q
capital for making such institutions self.sup.
porting, and getting rid Of the degrading innu.
ence Of alms-houses. This institution, after
many struggles and privations. is now very
large ana quite rich. II sends its travelling
asents over South Germany and Switzerland
The Knitting and cretchet work and et.work
Of the girls 10 sold tor thirty to sixty thousand
norins per year. The cotton mill is owned in
fifty shares; q wool factory and chemical lab.
orotory occupy twenty houses. A kindergar-
ten, q hospital and bank, also belong to the
establishment also, ribbon factory, o machine
shop, blackemith's shop, shoemaker's, q fur
niture factory, tannery, q school of design
and engraving, and large machine shop and
There are nine hundred children, from two 70
twenty years OF Age, and dve hundred and
eighty adults In tWenty.three different estab.
lishmente, entirely oolf-supporrnG. The can.
ital building. although the Work was All done
By Members OF the fnstttuuon, cost S2OO.OO0 4
have already mentioned that also q kinderrar.
ten u In the center Of this establish ment ga
Happy result would b Obtained" says Mrs.
II. Parker, 'df The youne WUre 90 sttua{ed as 70
b able 70 make o choice of conssnisi vorS.
rather than walt % stumble upon m mi the n,
ternoon of lt1e, OF never hnA rt st al. One
cannot eIauce at the career OF many distiu o.
eutsneo sceottGts Wtthout bofng con yinced
tnat the range Of their early studies Was too
nmiteo % sVakea theif lass6t poWers.n
9Io tnoee Who look below fhe snp0rncial sxi.
tsnons OF Enropsea politics, % the deeper
iof the promotion OF technical education. as the
IN struction OF ths woSkine classes IN the srts
and industries Of NE, II fuII on enconr.str~
promise. Beth In EnGlsnd anA on ~ ~ -