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for their object the training of women as industrialists, in which 

 everything relating to the home and family are made prominent 

 subjects of study. These institutions, like tue one in Needham, 

 Mass., recently endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Durant, by 

 the gift of a million of dollars, are for special training of house 

 keepers, telegraph operators, engravers, pattern-makers, ac 

 countants, etc. They are intended to cover very different ground 

 from the colleges and seminaries; to brighten the pale faces 

 hurrying from attic to workshop in our large cities, with better 

 wages for better work. But there are others still, which occupy 

 middle ground, where those who make the loaf and those who 

 eat it, are benefited alike. One of them, in the city of Gotha, 

 Germany, enjoys the highest reputation on the continent of 

 Europe, and draws pupils from Greece, Kussia, Italy, and 

 England. 



Among other things its accomplished principal, Dr. Kohler, 

 gives a series of what are called lecture conversations upon 

 the science of domestic economy. We daily witness events 

 where men, supposed to be worth millions of dollars, are 

 stricken with bankruptcy as with the palsy, and reduced to pov 

 erty; and the evil results of such a calamity are often needlessly 

 increased by an utter ignorance on the part of wives and 

 daughters of the purchasing value of money and its uses as ap 

 plied to household affairs. An American educator says: 



We were present in the Kohler School, at Gotba, at several of 

 these interesting lectures, in which the professor discussed with his 

 pupils every phase of domestic economy. For the purpose of af 

 fording to American teachers the opportunity of fathoming its scope, 

 and simply as an illustration of method, and not for the absolute 

 value of the suggestions, we shall quote one of the lectures in de 

 tail: 



&quot;Young ladies,&quot; says the professor, &quot;suppose that you had to 

 keep house, either as a wife or as a daughter, and that the family 

 consisted of two grown members and three children, and that the 

 income was twelve hundred dollars a 3 r ear, how would you spend it 

 to the greatest advantage and comfort ? If you had to reside in a 

 rented dwelling, what kind of a house could you afford to lease ? 

 What proportion of this twelve hundred dollars, in justice to all 

 other necessities and requirements, should be expended for rent ? 

 What number of rooms are essential ? Would a garden be an ad 

 vantage; and, if so, how large? What are the prices of house rent 

 iu the city of Gotha?&quot; 



This field of inquiry seemed to be entirely new, and few pupils 

 were prepared to answer. The professor then said: &quot; Make in 

 quiries; let us know how many rooms a family so circumstanced 



