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schools for an education, and the problem of public education in
municipalities is to get the best results in the expenditure of
the public money for the masses in general.

During the first week of the present session there was an
attendance in our public schools of 4015 pupils. This attend-
ance increased until in November there were present 4510 pupils.
There are 104 teachers employed and each teacher had an average
of 46 pupils. The entire enrollment for the session up to the
present time has been 5467. This shows a very large increase
over the attendance during the session four years ago; and, notwith-
standing the increase and pressure for school room, all of the
school children desiring education in the public schools have
been well cared for.

The great demand of the schools at this juncture is more
buildings and teachers, and, if possible, the City Council
must give new schoolhouses in the very near future.

Manual training and Domestic science.

Of the additional branches added during the current session
to the heretofore regular literary studies, it is with the great-
est satisfaction that I am enabled to mention Manual training
and Domestic science--the workshop for the boys, the cooking
school for the girls. Manual training adds precision to the
brain work and eye work; domestic science adds to the attainments
and usefulness of girl pupils.

It is a favorite maxim of the present Superintendent of our
public schools that there should be an equal cultivation of the
head, heart and hand; and these branches--manual training and
domestic science--are very largely taken advantage of by our
high school pupils. It is true that these two branches are yet
in their infancy, and the school board has been unable to make
the appropriations as large as it would have liked, but so far
the new departments have been a great success and will be continued
during the next term of our public schools. It is believed that