In a recent address in Philadelphia, the Hon. Richard Vaux said : "The time will come when the people will demand that appropriations shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of mechanical schools, so that from them may be graduated young men whose diplomas will show that they are educated and skilled in the arts, and the peers of any other men, no matter what their profession."

The fact seems to be overlooked that very few lads come to love the trade or pursuit in which they have been trained. We have agricultural schools, and it is a well known fact that a very small percentage of those who go to these schools ever become farmers. Nurserymen know that of the great number of those young boys who are placed by their parents, or who get opportunities to learn the business, it is extremely rare to find one who finally cares for it. The great bulk of the most successful in any employment are those who took to it in comparatively later years, from the love of it and not from early training.

So far as systems of education shall permit of the development early in life of a love of industry and mechanical pursuits in a general way, Mr. Vaux's idea is well enough. Those who love labor will soon find how to put it into useful practice.