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spinning, baking, masonry and painting, house-keeping and 

 basket-making. There are also workshops for printing, book- 

 binding, lithographing, stereotyping and wood-engraving. The 

 girls fill the places of servants, cooks, washerwomen, ironers, 

 laundry-women and seamstresses. The younger girls help the 

 older, make and mend coarse linen, knit and mend stockings, 

 etc. 



The Grerman Government has long sought to make industrial 

 pursuits reputable and universal. To this end, members of the 

 royal family have practiced as well as preached the gospel of 

 honest work. In Carlsruhe, I learned of an excellent girls' 

 school in the Schloss^ in which the Grrand Duchess of Baden, 

 the only daughter of the Emperor of Germany, had recently 

 placed her young daughter, with instructions that she should 

 be. excused from none of the household industries required of 

 the other pupils, that she should be trained in sewing and 

 knitting, and made as thorough a seamstress as if she were to 

 earn her livelihood by her needle. Daring her school life she 

 is not to be distinguished by any of the high titles w^hich she 

 may bear in after life. In all respects she is to be on a par 

 with her young companions, receiving no favoritism in view of 

 her rank, but to WOEK and play, run and romp, give and take 

 on perfectly equal terms with her companions, and receive 

 exactly the same punishments if remiss in study or work. 

 The present Crown Prince of Prussia early learned the cabinet 

 makers' trade, and at Babelsberg near Potsdam, the Summer 

 Palace of the Emperor of Germany, are shown articles of fur- 

 niture of superior workmanship made by him. His cousin, 

 Prince Frederick Charles, learned the trade of glazier, and 

 became quite artistic and enthusiastic in his craft. Fine speci- 

 mens of his work may be seen in the Potsdam Palace, consisting 

 chiefly of colored glass tastefully joined together by means of 

 lead and tin strips, like the fine colored memorial glass windows 

 so often found in churches. Such examples of honoring indus- 

 try have exerted a vast and beneficent influence throughout 

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