Industrial Work in Schools.
We are glad to see coming in more and more the true idea that the education of the young includes education in manual or physical lines as well as mental. Teach the boys a trade or a vocation, as well as language, mathematics, and philosophy. Teach the girls to sew, to cook, to keep house, as well as to write essays and to play the organ. Among the coming industrial schools of California one worthy of note is Healdsburg College, in Healdsburg, a central town in the productive Russian River valley. For some years they have done some farming and fruit-raising, some printing, furniture-making, and considerable tent-making, from small 7x9 tents to large ovals 8x12.5. There are no better tent-makers on the coast. They have recently added another industry, that of broom-making. Before us as we write lies a neat whisk broom made by the College Broom Factory. It is well and neatly made, a good, strong, serviceable broom. They make now, we understand, brooms of all sorts and grades, from the small brush for clothing to the finest house broom, stable broom, etc. Price lists may be obtained by addressing the business manager, H. F. Courter, College, Healdsburg, Cal. May the college prosper in its new enterprise.