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Show ployed In offlcee, stores and factories, aa well aa to boys. The whole subject Is stnl so new and fresh thai every dar the German presa has some Interesting item of continuation school news the opening of more domestic science schools for girls, the. establishment of training collegea for continuation school teachers, the publication of new law a and material decrees. WHY THE GERMANS LEAD. Influence Exertsd by the "Continuation School" In the Fatherland. An American manufacturer who had wondered at the succeaa of his German competitors waa atruck by certain big, flaming, official looking poeters on the billboards and around public buildings build-ings In Herlln. . He might have aeen similar posters In every city and town In Germany. Twice a year these official posters summon the youth of the land to obligatory attendance at the trade and commercial schools, Hubert Evana writes In Harper'a Weekly. Indirectly, they tell why the American or the Engllah manufacturer finds In the Herman such a dangeroua competitor They reveal the secret of Germany'a wonderful commercial and Industrial prosperity and of her commanding position as a world power. To the philosophically Inclined tbey suggest Interesting reflections on the transformation of Idealists and dreamers Into a nation of materialists and doers. There Is scarcely anything In all Germany so new and modern as the continuation schools. This whole movement hss ben a matter of only a few years, and In Ita present form tbe continuation continua-tion school Is a child of yesterday. Tbese institutions insti-tutions receive from the nation more care and solicitude than la bestowed upon the children of the Imperial family. They are still In a rapid process of cbsnge and development Tbelr very success haa encouraged further change and more stringent legislation In their behalf. It la only a few years ago that an Imperial Industrial law was passed giving community authority to establish and maintain obligatory continuation schools for youths, thus making good the failure of certain German state governments to provide for suck school by state law. One of the last acta of the relchstag last December waa to ameed this law ao as to make It apply to all gtrls a- |