practical instruction in the various duties of household 

 work. On one or two afternoons of each week these chil- 

 dren are gathered together in a room properly fitted up 

 with all the necessary requirements, and under a compe- 

 tent and skilled instructress are taught to make, open and 

 air a bed, to sweep and dust a room, to set a table, wash 

 the dishes, cook, and iron, and whatever else is required 

 to make a model servant or housekeeper. 



The advantages, both moral and material, to the poorer 

 classes from this teaching are incalculable, and the result 

 of a few years of such work has well justified the charity 

 which prompted the efl'ort. 



A movement is now on foot in the city of Boston to in- 

 troduce this species of industrial training into such of the 

 public schools as are necessary to give the plan a fair trial, 

 and to see what results will accrue from it. Again, in sev- 

 eral of our leading cities, a system of technical and scien- 

 tific instruction, combining theoretical with practical train- 

 ing has been successfully established, with the design of 

 preparing young men from sixteen to twenty years of age 

 for the duties of an active life, "which is broader and 

 brighter than the popular method of learning a trade, and 

 more simple and direct than the so-called liberal education." 

 "It is the well-considered opinion of all who have had inti- 

 mate knowledge of the working of this system that the 

 connection of academic culture and the practical applica- 

 tion of science is advantageous to both, in a school where 

 these objects are started together and carried on with har- 

 mony and equal prominence." "The Academy inspires its 

 intelligence into the work of the shop, and the shop, 

 with eyes open to the improvements of productive in- 

 dustries, prevents the monastic dreams and shortness 

 of vision that sometimes paralyze the profound learn- 

 ing of a college." One such school has lately been es- 

 tablished in St. Louis, in connection with Washington 



