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of medicine, music, drawing, designing, telegraphing and other 

 branches of art, science and industry best calculated to enable the 

 scholars to acquire an independent livelihoctd." 



Among the branches in which women might engage with adyan- 

 tage are those pursued by decorators of glass, porcelain, and china, 

 artificial flower makers, feather colorers, retouchers of photographs, 

 wood carvers, fan and toy makers, watchmakers, jewelers, lapidaries 

 and cameo cutters, workers in wax, plaster and ivory, glass cutters 

 and grinders, piano tuners, designers, engravers, telegraph opera- 

 tors, compositors, druggists, photographers, florists, dentists and 

 journalists. Indeed all the arts in which a good eye for color is 

 needed, seem to be especially suited for women. 



And let me here suggest that our State University, having shown 

 its enterprise in establishing departments of law, military science, 

 agriculture, civil engineering and mining and metallurgy, should 

 give similar attention to the industrial education of the " better 

 half" of its pupils, by opening one or more departments especially 

 adapted for training women in some of the occupations just men- 

 tioned. In closing I would say that no industrial training is com- 

 plete without artistic culture, which, though never its equivalent, 

 should always be its inspiration. 



