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Show A Model German Schoolhonse. At Mannheim, in Baden, Germany, there stands a schoolhouse which is said to be the most perfect bnilding of its kind. It cost 1235,000 and contains forty-two ordinary schoolrooms, besides two rooms for drawing, two for singing, two for handwork, a large gymnasium, a hall for public exercises, two meeting rooms for directors, two sets of rooms for servants and ftrar little prison cells for refractory pupils. The materials in the structure are almost exclusively iron and brick. The ceilings of all the rooms, corridors and the big hall are of concrete. The floors of the class rooms are hard wood laid on asphalt. They are supposed to be so constructed as to render the accumulation of dust and the breeding of bacteria impossible. The bnilding is heated by a low pressure steam system. In tho basement are swim baths. The boys' bath accommodates accommo-dates twenty at once and the girls' bath fifteen. Half of the basement is a huge, bright room, full of tables and chairs. Here in winter 900 poor children will receive a half pint of milk and a roll each daily for luncheon. In tho ninety winter days during which this arrangement arrange-ment will prevail the directors estimate that they will give away 20,250 quarts of milk and 81,000 rolls. |