The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-03-18
ARTISANS SCHOOLS.
GKEAT ATTENTION is BEING
PAID TO THE MATTER.
Cultivation of Trades in Europe BEL
GUM Maintains 225 Schools for
Training of Housewives and Other
Institutions for Workmen

One of the most interesting and in
structive publications issued by the
government for some time is the re-
cent volume on Foreign Trade Poll
cies of the European Governments"
Aside from the treatment of the mer-
chant marines, colonial policies, tariff
rates and commercial restrictions, the
subject OF state-aided technical educa-
ton in the several countries is very
fully discussed. Many of the branches
taught in these technical schools are
covered to a slight extent by private
institutions in our own land, but there
are a great number of special schools
that are entirely unknown here. In
Belgium, for example, there are 225
state schools for the training Of young
girls in housekeeping, besides some 27
other schools, exclusively for girls.
For the young men, Flanders weaving
appears to be the most important sub
ject, judging from the number of
schools devoted to it, there being no
less than AZ. In addition to these
there are two state tailoring schools,
" HShooi VI ioA III hOoI WI L D
one at Brussels for teaching the art of
printing; two schools devoted to the
Advancement of the fishing in
dustries, one at Ostend n the other
at Blankbergh; a school for watch
making and instruments of precision;
an upholstery and jewelry trade school
and the latest addition, a firearms
school. All of these institutions are
maintained by the government for the
purpose of stimulating manufacturing
interests and improving the quality of
the output of the country.
Political economists have called this
an age of specialism, and the above list
shows how appropos the name really
is. Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria and Switzerland all support
schools of somewhat similar character.
In France almost every city renowned
for a particular reduction boasts of one
or more technical schools for the edu-
cation of the young men and women
in this particular line, the object being
to maintain and improve the standard
of work of their predecessors, and to
Introduce the new ideas that may ap-
pear in other communities. Germany
likewise has many great industrial and
art schools, some of which are of inter-
national repute. The art schools of
Nuremberg and Munich, where wood
carving and metal work and general
decoration are taught, are especially
well known. Then, too, there is the
famous electro-techFical school at
Hanover, and the weaving and dyeing
schools at Crefield, AK and Cottbus.
In Great Britain the Ancient Trade
Guilds of the city of London practi-
cally control all technical education,
although the government annually
contributes 81, 900, 900 to the work. This
peculiar condition of affairs is due to
the fact that the guilds we're the first
to take up the work, and, being i'm
mensely wealthy, they contributed
large sums for the establishment of
schools and providing competent ex-
perts and instructors. When the gov
eminent became interested in the work
the students Of the guild schools had
so thoroughly established their reputa-
ton in the commercial world that the
government thought best to allow the
guilds to continue the supervision of
technical education.
There are Owe 67 trades and indus
tries in which technical education is
given in London. The list comprises
almost every class of technical COM
mercial work. 1t includes all the i'm
portant chemical manufacturing indus
tries, the mining and handling of ores
in all its branches, milling, the manu-
lecture of different fabrics, weaving