Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-04-07
What Germany Is Doing for Girls.

The programme of the Trade-school for
girls at Berlin now definitely expresses its
professed aims and ends as follows: The
higher culture of the female sex. Develop
ment of the industrial capacities of women
who are self-defendent. Removal of exist.
ing prejudices and hindrances to female in.
dustry. The encouragement of educational
establishments to train girls for commercial
and industrial callings. Provision of means
of information as to educational opportuni-
ties Facilitation of the relations between en-
ployer and employed. Institution of special
places for the exhibition and sale of women's
work. Protection of working women gen
orally, by affording information as to
lodgings, ETC., and by temporary help in case
of need. The actual condition of the Insti-
tute as set forth in the last years reports,
speaks for itself. We find fiourishing tech
nical school with more than thousand
scholars. A clearinghouse with accommo-
dation for forty-seven inmates is attached,
affording home for pupils from the coun-
try. A cooking school with sixty.six schol-
ars. A printing-school with thirty-two. A
free reference office for employers and en-
ployed, which in the years course found
temporary or permanent engagements for
five hundred and thirty-four persons. A
bazaar for the sale of work, which received
nine hundred commissions. A fund for the
issue of small loans, and another for the
hiring out of sewing-machines. Finally,
the eso-caled d" Fortbildungsschule," for girls
of the artisan class, lately opened, with
three hundred in attendance already and a
laundry-school (what English lady's heart
will not leap at the idea of good training
for washerwomen y with seventy-two learn.
ers. All of these-not one of which, as
will be seen presently, can properly be styled
charitable institution-work together in
perfect combination, to their mutual ad-
vantage in every sense. They are all located
in one building with the exception of the
printing g-schooD and under the management
of one governing body. The Technical
school is virtually self-supporting. 1t is in
three divisions, commercial, industrial, and
drawing. The commercial section was at
tended by forty-fve pupils, who here receive
systematic course of instruction in all
the technicalities of business--book.k keeping,
commercial arithmetic, geography, and cor
pondence-German, French, and Eng
lish. The drawing-school, with thirty
nine pupils, and fees of 81 yearly, has
classes for every branch of industrial art
free.hand and linear drawing, coloring,
ornamental design, fower-painting, china
painting and ornamental modelling. 1t is
in two divisions, one of which is expressly
for the training of drawing-teachers. The
industrial section has separate classes for
dress.making, sewing, notwithstanding, cut
ting of linen, hair-dressing, artificial-hower
making, and art needle work, with monthly
fees varying up to los, There are over nine
hundred scholars in attendance the dress
making class alone being attended by three
hundred and seventy-five. This division,
clearly the most popular, is also vastly the
most remunerative; and it is to the large
excess of receipts over expenditure in the
industrial department that the surplus in
favor of the school, shown by the general
balance, is due.-London Society.