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that the Commissioners appointed to investigate 

 the state of education in the mining districts 

 made special mention of it in their Report on 

 the Industrial School founded by Messrs. Baird 

 at their Gartsherrie Ironworks. Speaking of this 

 school they state that " the girls in three months 

 can be taught plain cooking, washing, and 

 cleaning — enough to prepare them for service, or 

 to make them useful to their mothers at home. 

 They are all instructed in Tegetmeier's ' Domestic 

 Economy ' at school, so that their minds have 

 been diverted to many useful principles. On 

 going to service after such a course, a girl would 

 probably get £1 more wages for the first half- 

 year's service." This last remark applies, in 

 principle, to all Tegetmeier's books : they are 

 so accurate, reliable and practical that one is 

 bound to benefit from their perusal, and become 

 thereby the richer in information, if not in cash. 

 The 14th Edition of the " Domestic Economy," 

 revised and enlarged, was brought out in 1894, 

 and was the last issue of the book, which however 

 renewed its youth, to a certain extent, in the 

 shape of the daughter book compiled at the 

 request of the School Board for London, and 

 entitled, " The Handbook of Household Manage- 

 ment and Cookery." It was issued by Messrs. 

 Macmillan & Co., uniform with their well-known 

 shilling series of Primers on science, history, etc. 

 Designed to supply a want long felt by practical 



