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with their appliances for eighty boys ; and in the smithies are 

 all needed forges, anvils, vices, benches, &c., for seventy boys. 

 The directors, on whose authority the above statements are 

 given, say, that on successfully completing their three years 

 course, these boys receive considerably higher paj^ than those 

 who have not enjoyed the advantages of the school. 



Needle work forms a part of the course of instruction for 

 girls in a large part of the elementary schools of Europe. In 

 Switzerland four thousand three hundred and seventy-three 

 females are employed in schools teaching needle work. In 

 some schools I saw these teachers training their scholars in the 

 use of the American sewing machine. 



When one has inspected her technical schools and her 

 twenty-nine industrial schools, he is no longer surprised that 

 Switzerland is especially the home of industry, for her mechanics 

 are educated and skillful. Though hemmed in by mountains, 

 without a seaport, with few minerals and no coal, with costly 

 transportation, all freight from the sea board coming over for- 

 eign territory, she threatens the ribbon trade of Coventry, rivals 

 the English in muslin and delaine, and the world in watches 

 and wood-carving. More than one million watches are made 

 annually in Geneva and I^euchatel alone. The Swiss are an 

 ingenious and industrious people. They believe in the dignity 

 of labor and in the thorough mastery of some trade. In their 

 industrial schools, prominence is given to drawing, designing 

 and moulding, as well as to practice in the trades. Hence the 

 world pays substantial tribute to Switzerland for the exquisite 

 taste displayed in the decorative arts, their unequaled carvings, 

 their beautiful chasings in gold and silver, their silk ribbons, 

 their watches and music boxes. 



The Earl of Koseburj^ says that the cause of this rapid pro- 

 gress of Swiss manufacture is plainly " the complete and special 

 education which she gives in primary schools and practical 

 schools, and trade schools, and secondary schools, and cantonal 

 schools, all topped up by the great Polytechnic Institute at 

 Zurich. The Swiss manufacturer is master of his business, and 

 his workmen with whom he is in perpetual contact, respect him 

 for this. Master and servant have been at the same school learn- 

 ing their crafty and they know it thoroughly." 



