The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-24

of her former employers testifyfng to her character. The police must stamp every record. shoHing that 1t is correct.
 "A dollar week Is a big price for a hired girl, and at the agencies l was told that excellent servants could be had from $2.50 to A per month. The ser- wants in these Bureaus looked like good girls. They were well dressed, though not as extravagantly as their class in Amer fca.
 Housekeeping Schools.
 There are many schools here for train ing servant girls. Berlin has an organ fzation known as the Housewives Union, which devotes itself to such things. It gives prizes for good servants, rewarding every girl who stay five years at one place with a little gold. pin and a me- mprial; and after ten years second prize of $2.50 in gold. There are many housekeeping schools for the daughters of the well-to-do and the rich, and 1t is not an uncommon thing for nice Ger man girl whose father is moderately we'll of, to go into the house of a stranger of the same class to learn housekeeping; the idea is that she will be made to work, which might not be the case at home.
 The housekeepdne schools are attended by all classes. l found one at the Krupp works and have visited others here and there over Germany. The girls are taught to cook. bake. wash and iron. They learn sewing, mending, knitting and dress- making. and also everything in connection with housekeeping. Nearly every school has its kitch an garden, the work of which Is done by the pupils, and in number of schools cows are kept and the girls are taught to milk and to make butter and cheese.
 I was surprised at the scientific char acter O. the instruction. Every girl keeps an itemized account of just what each meal costs. She must set down the weight and value of every ingredient as we'll as the time required for cooking, SO that at the end she knows just how much she hac spent for each dish and the whole meal as well as just how she has )oked it. With such an education a girl can fill almost any station in life as wife, housekeeper, cook or general ser- want.
 Schools for Everything.
 The Germans are running wild over technical education. They have about the best schools of the world, from the universities down. Within the past few years they have been establishing vast number of technical schools for every branch of manufacture and industry. There are schools for butchers. bakers and candlestick makers. At Chemnitz. below Lcipsig, the cotton center of Germany. there are schools for weavers and design ers In other parts there are schools for doll and toy makers and in Berlin school for blacksmiths.
 There are eleven industrial art schools in Berlin, with more than 2,500 pupils. There are commercial high schools here in Leipsig and also in Cologne, attended by men who expect to make their living in trade, and by exporting and import ing At Wilhelmshof in Witzenhausen. there is a colonial school where men are educated for service in the German pos sessions 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 abil- ity. They are of so much importance that a federal bureau Is being organized to supervise them. and the leading manu- facturers tell me that the German trade of the future will be largely built upon its technical education.
 The Technical School Movement.
 The same movement is going on in the other countries of Europe, There are technical schools in France and Swit:er- land, Holland and Belgium, and a large number in Austria. That country is now spending more than a million dollars 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 center should have them. and there should be commercial colleges on the broadest lines in all our cities. Here Is noble field for some would-be Carnegie of the future
 Frank G. Carpenter