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you should first visit." On inspecting this School of Design in 

 Paris, I found in the lower rooms the methods and work of a 

 first-class drawing school. But in the upper rooms the classes 

 were painting on elegant goblets, cups, plates, vases and other 

 choicer wares, just brought from Sevres and to be returned there 

 for baking. After witnessing this truly artistic work, I no 

 longer wondered that in the Sevres factory itself the artisan 

 had indeed become the artist, and that only men of princely 

 wealth could procure the products of this unrivalled estab- 

 lishment. 



In Belgium the girls have shared the advantages of Indus- 

 trial Schools as well as the boys. The schools for training in 

 lace-making and embroidering, in Brussels, have long been cele- 

 brated, and kindred schools have more recently been opened in 

 Eowlers, Ghent, Ath, Deerlyk and in many other places in that 

 busy little kingdom. To those familiar with this fact,* it was 

 no surprise that Belgian lace shown at the Philadelphia Expo- 

 sition was unrivalled. Some Industrial Schools are main- 

 tained wholly by the central government, others partially, and 

 still others are supported by endowments, and many are private 

 institutions dependent mostly on tuition for support. A large 

 number called apprentice schools are maintained by benevolent 

 associations. These are designed to train boys and girls both 

 in skilled manipulations in various trades, and in the practical 

 studies and theories most helpful in such pursuits. 



Belgium, with about fifty industrial schools, and fifteen thou- 

 sand apprentices graduated from them, Germany with over 

 fifty-two thousand apprentices in fourteen hundred and fifty 

 industrial schools, and France with twelve thousand industrial 

 scholars, show the practical appreciation of these institutions 

 in these countries, which distance the competition of surround- 

 ing nations in the great markets of the world. Steam and 

 the telegraph are bringing all nations into such near neighbor- 

 hood that industrial ascendancy will belong to that country 

 which provides the best industrial education. 



The Artisan School established nine years ago in Eotterdam, 

 Holland, has already two hundred pupils and commands the 

 confidence of that community. Candidates for admission must 

 pass an examination in the simpler rudiments, and are expected 



