Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-23

gives prizes for good servants. rewarding
every girl who stays FIVE years at one place
18th little gold pin and a memorial; and
after ten years second prize Of $3.50 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 German girl. whose father
Is moderately well OF, to go into the house
OF stranger Of the same class to learn
housekeeping; the idea lie that she will be
made to work, which might not be the
case at home
The housekeeping schools are attended by
all classes. I found one at the Krupp
works and have visited others here and
there over Germany. The girls are taught
10 cook. bake. wash and iron. They learn
sewing. mending. knitting and dressmak-
ing. and also everything in connection with
housekeeping. Nearly every school has its
kitchen garden. the work of which is done
py the pupils. and in number Of schools
cows are kept and the girls are taught
to milk and to make butter and cheese
was surprised at the scientific char
acter OF the instruction. Every girl keeps
an ltemized account Of just what each meal
costs. She must set down the weight and
value OF every ingredient as well as the
time required for cooking, so that at the
end she knows just how much she has
spent FOR each dish and the whole meal as
wen as Just how she has cooked it. With
sucn an education a girl can fill almost
any station in life as wife, housekeeper,
COOK or general servant.
Schools for Everything.
The Germans are running wild over
technical education. They have about the
best schools of the world, from the uni
versities 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 candle
stick makers. At Chemnitz, below Leipsig,
the cotton center Of Germany. there are
schools for weavers and designers. 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 $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 importing
At Wilhelmshof in Witzenhausen there
Is colonial school where men are edu-
Gated for service in the German possess
Islands.
In all these schools the rates of tuition
are low, and that notwithstanding that
the professors are men of recognized
aplllty. They are of so much Importance
that 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 tech
nical schools in France and Switzerland,
Holland and Belgium and a large num-
Der in Austria. That country is now spend
Ing 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 manu-
featuring center should have them, and
there should be commercial colleges on the
broadest lines in all our cities Here Is
a noble field for some would-be Carnegie
of the future. FRANK G. CARPENTER.