GERMAN COMMERCIAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1904, Page 13

GERMAN COMMERCIAL TRAINING FOR GIRLS.

-J. — « Iniiis exceedingly interesting "Report on Commercial Instruction in Germany," just published by the Foreign Office, Dr. Frederic Rose, British Consul at Stuttgart, gives some information concerning certain commercial schools for girls that have been set up in the Fatherland. One of the most interesting of these is the municipal commercial school for girls at Nuremberg. At this institution — intended for the instruction of girls who have pa&Sed through the elementary schools, and who wish to enter business — pupils are taken through a three-years' course is. religion, arithmetic, book-keeping, commercial knowledge (including principles ni economics, foreign exchanges, and elements of German commercial law), German, French, English, commercial geography, handwriting, shorthand, and typewriting. The fees are 36s per annum, payable quarterly. The number of pupils increases steadily year by year, and reached 280 in 1903. The discipline at the school is severe, and extends to the pupil's conduct at home. The would-be German lady clerk is " not allowed " to visit concerts or theatres without the pel-mission of the school inspector or the class teacher. Parents and guardians are specially enjoined not only to see that pupils attend the school regularly, but also to be careful that the pupils are clothed "as s>imply as possible." They are further required to control the literature read by pupils at home, and not to allow private masters to assist pupils without first c'onsultina; the master at the school ; and, finally, nrt to permit pupils to take part in pleasures and social distractions beyond their years Many English girls would legard this as> sla-very. But the Nuremberg commercial girl appears to be in request, for it is stated that on leaving they all find paid employment immediately 1