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HELEN ABBOTT MICHAEL 
for the Museum in Stockholm. The character of the art work 
is general, embracing embroidery on linen or satin of every de¬ 
scription, copies of Japanese patterns, on crepe, and the long 
embroidery Japanese stitch in colors, beadwork, finest of laces, 
etc. These samples are expensive because they are the finest 
of needlework. Two hunderd and forty marks was asked for 
one sample of linen which contained about nine different 
kinds of embroidery. 
“Frau Ree thought that it would be necessary to have sam¬ 
ples of work in a museum, or in a school, showing the develop¬ 
ment from the more simple to the more elaborate. She said in 
case it was desired to have these samples, that if she were in¬ 
formed of the amount of money that could be spent in this 
way, she would do her best to select typical and good speci¬ 
mens. 
“The teachers were formerly obtained from Vienna, which 
also has a famous industrial school, but she found the teachers 
less anxious to work than the North Germans, and they now 
train their own teachers. She said the drawing was the most 
expensive; the teachers required higher salaries, doubtless, than 
the others. The South Kensington Museum Frau Ree felt was 
too limited. The work done there is exquisite, but it is usually 
done by ladies in reduced circumstances. Frau Ree thought 
that such a school was much needed in London. 
“She has various departments of industrial work in the 
building, French, German, and book-keeping classes. The 
latter idea was introduced from Munich and Nuremberg. 
However, there are few opportunities for girls getting situa¬ 
tions for book-keeping in Hamburg. The idea of women tak¬ 
ing care of accounts, etc., has worked so well in France that 
Frau Ree saw no reason why it would not work well in Ham¬ 
burg. Typewriting is not much done, nor is there much call for 
stenography. Formerly the school had a class of stenography, 
but not at present, since there seemed to be no demand for it. 
The Hamburg merchants are very particular about the hand¬ 
writing, and one of the first questions asked is, ‘ Does she write 
a good hand ? ’ Samples of the different kinds of writing done 
was shown by the teacher in charge. It was absolutely perfect 
