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education of male teachers and the common schools, under the zeal 

 ous care of school director, Dr. Mobius, and the Kindergarten sem 

 inary, under Dr. Kohler, have earned so great a reputation that 

 pupils from Greece, Russia, Hungary, and England, in increasing 

 numbers, are being matriculated. This reputation for thorough and 

 useful training is, moreover, based upon an unselfish devotion and 

 a love for the cause, as rare as it is delightful.* 



With the foundation thus indicated, it is easy to see how a 

 young woman may be prepared to make the most of her re 

 sources; and not less, but all the more fully, should she be 

 trained who has thousands, instead of hundreds, at her com 

 mand, and whose duty it manifestly is to employ and adequately 

 repay the labor of others less favored. Equally with the poor 

 est does she need to be taught how to order her home without 

 waste, discord, or confusion; to use upon it the fine artistic 

 taste developed by the highest culture, and to apply scientific 

 principles to the relief of necessary labor from what is mere 

 drudgery. 



In several of the institutions deriving their support from the 

 grant of Congress, these principles are so far recognized as to 

 require that their benefits shall be equal to both sexes, though 

 not necessarily alike. A school of domestic science is one of 

 the departments of the Illinois Industrial University, and in 

 Nebraska the remunerative labor system encourages the young 

 women to carry on the housework under competent supervision, 

 in a way that does not retard their intellectual progress. &quot;It 

 is just as feasible to give practice in cooking with pleasure and 

 profit to the pupil, as it is to give laboratory practice in chem 

 istry, and no more expensive.&quot; 



Many of the specialties which should be adequately provided 

 for in an agricultural college are especially adapted to fit woman 

 for her position as an industrialist, such as bee-keeping, silk 

 culture, the culture and preservation of small fruits, floricult 

 ure, and the related industry of extracts and perfumes, dairy 

 management, poultry management, etc., etc. Through the efforts 

 of women in the Grange it is to be hoped an influence may be 

 brought to bear upon our educational system ; introducing such 

 changes as are needed to fit the daughters of California for wife 

 or motherhood ; which, by making each of them the mistress of 

 some industrial art, will, perchance, enable them to keep a roof 



* Report of Bureau of Education for 1874. 



