rty hours of school work each week for which they pay
regular wages. Well, sir, the superintendent there told me that they
didn't so much as notice the loss."

"I tried to explain my system to one superintendent," said Mr. Renshaw,
"but he wouldn't even listen. 'It makes no difference how you do it,' he
grumbled, 'I don't care about that. I know that the boys are neater,
more careful, more accurate, and better all-around workmen after they
have been with you for a while. That's enough explanation for me.'"

Acting on such sentiments the manufacturer peremptorily dismisses the
boy who does not do his school tasks satisfactorily. The responsibility
is in the school, whose growing enrollment and influence tell their own
story. Firms send their boys to the school with the comment that the
hours of school time, for which they are paid, do not add to the cost of
shop management, but do add to the value of the boys to the shop.
Increased efficiency pays.

A school of salesmanship for women has met with a like success. The
leading stores, glad of an opportunity to raise the standard of their
employees, grant the saleswomen a half day each week, without loss of
pay, during which they take the salesmanship course. The course has the
hearty backing of the best Cincinnati merchants, who see in it an
opportunity, as Mr. Dyer put it, "to make their employees the most
skilled and intelligent, the most obliging and trustworthy, the best
treated and best paid--in short, the very best type of saleswomen in
the country."

That this work may keep pace with the demand for it the school
authorities offer industrial instruction in any pursuit for which a
class of twenty-five can be organized.

"A large number of women were born too soon to get the advantage of the
courses in domestic science now being offered in our high schools,"
comments Mr. Dyer in his dry way. Scores of such women anxious to learn
all that was known about domestic arts constituted a class for which the
school was well equipped to provide. "Then suppose we give them what
they need," said Mr. Dyer. Just fancy--a continuous course in domestic
science! Yet there it is, in Cincinnati, with an enrollment of more than
eleven hundred women, attending the public schools to learn domestic
arts. What could be more rational than this Cincinnati system of making
a school--even though it be a continuation school--to fit the
educational needs of Cincinnati people--grown-ups and chi