TRAINING OF GERMAN GIRLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 3

TRAINING OF GERMAN GIRLS.

In.' the.,series-of Special Reports on. Educa.tioii?.!.,Subjects the British', Board,,of. Educa-tion,-.'have . issued a ..lengthy, report, on- .''The t .Domestic Training of. Girls, in Germany and Austria.','- iThe information'given ';:has'.'been: ■ prop'ared .mainly from, the' reports.'of . Miss M. C. Mathesqn....j,',- : . r .The,',teaching: is..given to.; small- groups; of: : about the;sizq.,qf an average family; and the pupils always , themselves . eat- "the - Y'dishe's:! they; have; dooked.. :i ; The;,.relation.:''s£; theory, :to practice varies. under the influence. of,;tho- ■ two.: schools.iof.i.c.arlsruho: arid, with Borlin,. have the . 'oldest schools ifor'*tho : training l ,of / housewifery teachers.'But; per-, haps tho most striking: feature of thqwork jn .Gerinany,;'. which dates,, .from ~tliq, - last ■ fifteen, years of th 6 last, century*.. is. tlvb .'progress: in; the 'domestic, .training,, schools .'for tho middle and .upper classes. Tho ' oldfashioned housewifery school, joined an "exhausting round of rough . work"'to barrackliko. dormitories ,and": mixed- • companionship, but ; the new home . sphool 'considers; ': the •future life of the;,pupils; in every Arrangement, and; though the work is hard and the : roughest .parts'; of.- it. art never'.shirked, yet the course of study, is iri the. true': souse humane.-, .Tho larger ..social-. home duties arid the/ediication of taste and artistic sense find their due place and scope.