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Show produfits, in colore, nnd in invMtigating how from a cheap raw prodin-t gomf thing may ims produced, which wealthy men and women .will be glad to bov, a, (or inafance out of clay to produce vane and other worka of art, all the value of which will be in the German brain which haa bWn infuaed into it, go to irpeak. giving the worthlesa clay a aoul. We hope that. Utah will apend more and more money every year on the achools which will pive her young men and women not only practical edu-cation, edu-cation, but at the name time developing the artistic facultiea. the germa of which might always lie dor-mant dor-mant unlcm called out by the friction and competition compe-tition of the schools. It is deplorable that so many young men and women are growing up in I'tah we presume it is so in every state without any practical knowledge of what they will most need to know five or ten yeara hence. Our streets are filled with daintily dressed young women and girls. They all expect to be married and have homes of their own within the next three or four yeara. How many of them can make a loaf of bread or darn a stock-ingf stock-ingf How many of them would be competent to show a hired girl how to do either I .When married, and the dinner ia a failure, it will not help it for them to go off and ery. And the big, strong, strapping young men; what do they know throtigh which to earn a Jiving t A year at some thorough work now might enable en-able them to command twice the wages that they caa arnJf JheyipnjUheyare nowjningon. The idea ahonld be to master something which will command for them an honest and honorable living, liv-ing, and bring out the faculties through which their service will be wanted in thia tough old world. CItAN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. Soma Columbia university professors who have , been visititg Germany for several weeks, aeema more impressed by the German technical schools than by anything else they saw. The atate aup- . porta these schools, also smalt laboratories svat-' svat-' tered through the country in charge of eminent ' scientists, and all intended for the benefit of the people. Those schools have been a great factor in building 'up the immense trade which Germany has drawn to herself in the last thirty years. There has been operated perfect system, which in brief ; haa three prim factors. First establishing branch : bouses in foreign countries, where those in charge learn the language and habits of the people. Second, Sec-ond, to promptly deliver by fast ships snything ordered by those houses, snd then to have the goods and wares of the best and in the form which the convenience or necessities of the people require. Thus, If goods are going, say to Rio Janeiro, one form of packing is adopted. If they are to be aent over the mountains beyond Rio, where they will have to be packed on mules, another style ia substituted. sub-stituted. The details are all attended to. If cloth fur the wearing apparel of either men or women is desired, the order specifies what colors are most In vogue, and the order is filled to the letter. . In German "schools of design" there are artists employed, em-ployed, met or women who are experts, but who are not great enough in their chosen railing to make great names by independent effort Skilled chemists sra employed in ezperimntii in food |