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ing, plotting, geometrical and ornaraental drawing anrl modelling" 

 and other practical studies, described at length on page 121: of the 

 report on education made in 1870 by Dr. Hoyt, who wisely recom- 

 mends the opening of such schools in all the cities of the United 

 S:Htes. Similar schools might be opened at the same season for 

 tie improvement of farmer.^. There are also many laborers who 

 cannot attend any d ly school, even an industrial one, but who 

 would go to an evening school gladl3\ The workman who is too 

 tired to study anything else has been found able to learn drawing 

 in such a school with great advantage. 



A State which has so mmy Germ in and Scandinavian inhabit- 

 ants as Wisconsin really seems to me also bound to give the men 

 and women some such facilities for perfecting their knowledge of 

 the English language. Allow ma to suggest further, that in a 

 great railroad centre, like Madison, evening schools should be 

 opened to teach railroad hands, and workers in machine shops, me- 

 chanical drawing, modelling, the use of every part of the steam en- 

 gine and all the scientific principles involved in the running of 

 railway trains and the manufacturing of cars and locomotives. 

 The gain merely to the morals of the pupils, by removing them 

 from temptation, would fully justify all the outlay' necessary. I 

 am gdad to hear that twenty-nine evening schools for adults are in 

 successful operation in Philadelphia, and hope the time will come 

 when similar statistics can be furnished by Chicago, Milwaukee and 

 Madison. 



In one point we are already wiser in America than they are in Great 

 Britain, or on the contiiient of Europe. Scarcely an\' industrial 

 schools for women have been opened there, or seem likelj' to be. 

 Of what little has been done in the United States, woman has had 

 her full share. A pr(miinent place in the Boston public school sys- 

 tem is occupied by what are called the "designing young ladies;" 

 and the ph'lanthropic women in that city are attempting to follow 

 the example of their sisters in New >ork, who Iv.vre for the li-sb 

 two years been giving instruction in running sewing machines, 

 houBework, sewing of all kinds, Uumlry work, cooking, book-keeo- 

 ing. proof-reading and other useful employments with great success. 



Of tha many female colleges springing up all over the laud, none 

 deserve more praise than that already founded by John Sinimo s, 

 of Boston, who bequeathed §1,400,000 " to provide for the teaching 



