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are unwilling to take students, others charge for the instruction they may furnish, and at best the student must devote himself to some special form of work, thereby missing one of the greatest advantages of the Mittweida factory, viz., a general view of the field of mechanical engineering. Barmen, Charlottenburg, Erfurt, and Strassburg exhibited drawings of their schools of decorative arts. It is doubtless along the lines of work here embraced that social aesthetics is to find its way toward progress.

Schools of cooking and of domestic science are for the girls what manual-training schools are for the boys. Among the muni- cipalities which arrange for cooking schools are Augsburg, Bar- men, Berlin, Breslau, Coin, Mainz, Munchen, Nurnberg, and Worms. Crimmitschau has a special building devoted to domes- tic science. Chenmitz and Plauen have separate buildings for their cooking schools. In Worms and Crimmitschau domestic science is required as a part of the regular public-school work. Breslau, Leipzig, Konigsberg, and Strassburg exhibited needle- work done in the girls' schools. Dresden, also, has courses in cooking and domestic science introduced by the Gemeinnutziger Verein, which have proved to be so satisfactory that all new school buildings are to be equipped for similar instruction. There are further, in Dresden, continuation schools for grls, connected with eight public schools. They offer instruction in housewifely arts and preparation for business callings. The courses are litera- ture, cooking, domestic science, hygiene, principles of education, French, English, bookkeeping, stenography, history of art, gym- nastics, singing, sewing, and typewriting. There are also " con- versational evenings for girls," in which instruction is given in housekeepng, principles of education, kindergarten methods, sewing, and English.

Aids in teaching are furnished by the school museums, school libraries, and school gardens. Excursions for the study of geog- raphy, geology, and botany form an integral part of the educa- tional system. The school museum is intended to supplement the work of the excursion. Exhibits of school museums were made by Munchen, Hildesheim, Hannover, Dresden, and Breslau, the last three being particularly noteworthy. The school gardens are