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for the Museum in Stockholm. The character of the art work 

 is general, embracing embroidery on linen or satin of every de- 

 scription, copies of Japanese patterns, on crepe, and the long 

 embroidery Japanese stitch in colors, beadwork, finest of laces, 

 etc. These samples are expensive because they are the finest 

 of needlework. Two hunderd and forty marks was asked for 

 one sample of linen which contained about nine different 

 kinds of embroidery. 



"Frau Ree thought that it would be necessary to have sam- 

 ples of work in a museum, or in a school, showing the develop- 

 ment from the more simple to the more elaborate. She said in 

 case it was desired to have these samples, that if she were in- 

 formed of the amount of money that could be spent in this 

 way, she would do her best to select typical and good speci- 

 mens. 



"The teachers were formerly obtained from Vienna, which 

 also has a famous industrial school, but she found the teachers 

 less anxious to work than the North Germans, and they now 

 train their own teachers. She said the drawing was the most 

 expensive ; the teachers required higher salaries, doubtless, than 

 the others. The South Kensington Museum Frau Ree felt was 

 too limited. The work done there is exquisite, but it is usually 

 done by ladies in reduced circumstances. Frau Ree thought 

 that such a school was much needed in London. 



"She has various departments of industrial work in the 

 building, French, German, and book-keeping classes. The 

 latter idea was introduced from Munich and Nuremberg. 

 However, there are few opportunities for girls getting situa- 

 tions for book-keeping in Hamburg. The idea of women tak- 

 ing care of accounts, etc., has worked so well in France that 

 Frau Ree saw no reason why it would not work well in Ham- 

 burg. Typewriting is not much done, nor is there much call for 

 stenography. Formerly the school had a class of stenography, 

 but not at present, since there seemed to be no demand for it. 

 The Hamburg merchants are very particular about the hand- 

 writing, and one of the first questions asked is, ' Does she write 

 a good hand?' Samples of the different kinds of writing done 

 was shown by the teacher in charge. It was absolutely perfect 



