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Show I EX-ARISTOCRATS LEARNING TRADES DLRL1N. Jan. 21 Germany Is gradually becoming more democratic Bay ardent supporters of tho republic repub-lic They see proof ot this in the fart 'hat former German aristocrats who once would have considered it a family fam-ily scandal to have been detected tit manual labor and members of the highly educated classes who were equally averse to any kind of work with their hands now are not only willing will-ing to work Whin they have to but 'hey take to it from choice. Among 20 students recently enrolled in a school which teach..- various kinds of manual work, ten were of no ble families or eons of fathers who lormerly never would have consented to Bee an offspring engaged in such trades or in an work In all these occupations the student must go through a severe apprenticeship, apprentice-ship, after which he I8 permitted to join a labor union and work tor union wages. Considerable satisfaction is manifest iu republican quarters over this evidence evi-dence of the change which is taking tdace in Germany. |