Home Industries.

Home and village industries have been in some cases initiated, in others improved and extended, in districts when, from the poverty of the population and the scarcity of capital, special aids were essential, notably in Baden, Bavaria, and the Tyrol. In the schools established and maintained for this purpose, wood carving and inlaying, lock making, filagree work, basket making, and other simple trades for which there were local material and aptitude, have been taught with considerable success. In some cases these industries have been so firmly and permanently established as to render unnecessary the further maintenance of the special schools. In the primary schools of the Black Forest, straw plaiting is taught to the girls. Discriminating regard is paid to the capabilities of each sex. In " women's work" schools on the Reutlingen model and in the professional schools for girls which have been established in Frame and the Netherlands, instruction is successfully given qualifying girls for many useful occupations, though these are scarcely of the kind usually understood under the term of manufactures.