very existence of home--will enable her to be a useful wife and good mother. Trade-schools in Switzerland are of ancient origin, having an intimate connection with the great impulse which the watch industry of French Switzerland received in the latter half of the last century. In the year 1770 a journeyman watchmaker, named Louis Faigare, applied to Professor Saussure for some information connected with his trade, which the then means of ordinary public instruction did not afford to his class. The professor accommodated him, and from this resulted a series of lectures, or rather _conversaziones_, held in the great scientist’s drawing-room. The audience increasing to such proportions, it was found advisable to secure suitable quarters, and a club was formally organized under the title of _Société des Arts de Genève_. This club, so modest in its inception, has survived all the mighty political tempests of a troubled age,--the violent annexation of the Genevese republic to France and its restoration to the Helvetic union,--and to-day enjoys a high rank among learned societies, and numbers in its list of members some of the most eminent names of modern science. This is the parent of the celebrated Horological School in Geneva, with its branches at Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Biel, Fleurier, and St. Imier. Pupils are received in these schools when they have passed their fourteenth year, and the course is from three to four and one-half years. For the artistic education, there is a special school devoted entirely to the art of decorating watches, which has become a very important branch of the industry.